Musicophilia (2021)

7.0/10 113 min Drama Music

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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