Musicophilia (2021)
Overview
Based on webcomic “Musicophilia” by Akira Saso published in 2011, this is a film about Saku Urushibara, a young man with a special ability to understand sounds in nature. His father is a prominent composer, and his younger half-brother is a genius music composer. Due to the success achieved by his father and half-brother, Saku Urushibara has an inferiority complex. He tries to stay away from music because of this, but he ends up enrolling at the University of Arts in Kyoto where his special ability helps him find his own voice in the world of contemporary classical music.
Cast
Kai Inowaki
Honoka Matsumoto
Ikusaburo Yamazaki
Shinnosuke Abe
Kanji Ishimaru
Mari Hamada
Misuzu Kanno
Noa Kawazoe
Canon Nawata
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