Piano in a Storeroom (2014)
Overview
Two sisters living on a peach farm in Koori town, Fukushima Prefecture,are opposites. Haruka Miyamoto feels less beautiful than her sister Akiba Miyamoto and hates being compared to her. She finds comfort in playing a piano in a barn. A year after the Great East Japan Earthquake, she decides she wants to be a pianist. Akiba, for her part, moved to Tokyo to attend college. When she moves back to Koori, Haruka is unsettled and memories connected to the disaster she has tried to forget resurface.
Cast
Kyoko Yoshine
Haruka Miyamoto
Ena Koshino
Akiba Miyamoto
Shiro Sano
Hatsunori Hasegawa
Junkichi Orimoto
Mitsuru Hirata
Mariko Akama
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