Musicophilia (2021)

  • NR
  • 11/12/2021 (JP)
  • Drama, Music
  • 1h 53m

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.

Hiroyuki Ono

Writer

Masaaki Taniguchi

Director

Cast

Kai Inowaki's headshot

Kai Inowaki

Honoka Matsumoto's headshot

Honoka Matsumoto

Ikusaburo Yamazaki's headshot

Ikusaburo Yamazaki

Shinnosuke Abe's headshot

Shinnosuke Abe

Kanji Ishimaru's headshot

Kanji Ishimaru

Mari Hamada's headshot

Mari Hamada

Misuzu Kanno's headshot

Misuzu Kanno

Noa Kawazoe's headshot

Noa Kawazoe

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