Birds Without Names (彼女がその名を知らない鳥たち, Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi) is a 2017 Japanese drama film directed by Kazuya Shiraishi.
It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.
[1] Towako leads an idle life alongside Jinji Sano, in his fifties, a man about fifteen years her senior, whom she despises and belittles at the slightest opportunity.
Towako takes Makoto Mizushima as her lover, but lives in the painful memory of her relationship with Shun'ichi Kurosaki which ended abruptly eight years earlier.
Following this phone call, a police inspector visits her and tells her that Kurosaki disappeared without a trace five years ago.