The Piano Forest (2007)
Original title: ピアノの森
The Piano Forest is a 2007 Japanese-language music movie directed by Masayuki Kojima, with a running time of 1h 41m. It stars Aya Ueto, Ryunosuke Kamiki and Mayuko Fukuda.
Shuhei Amamiya transfers to Moriwaki Elementary filled with hope and ambition. But it doesn't take long before he gets picked on by the class bullies, and gets involved in a dare to play the mysterious piano in the forest. Igniting his meeting with an equally enigmatic child, Kai Ichinose, who seems to be the only one capable getting sound out of the thought to be broken piano.
Cast
- Aya Ueto as Kai Ichinose (voice)
- Ryunosuke Kamiki as Shuhei Amamiya (voice)
- Mayuko Fukuda as Takako Maruyama (voice)
- Chizuru Ikewaki as Reiko Ichinose (voice)
- Rica Matsumoto as Daigaku Kanehira (voice)
- Hiroyuki Amano as Chinpira (voice)
- Kazuko Kurosawa as Hostess (voice)
- Hiroyuki Miyasako as Sousuke Ajino (voice)
- Udo Suzuki as Old Man (voice)
- Junji Takada as Judge (voice)
- Atsuko Tanaka as Namie Amamiya (voice)
- Mayumi Tanaka as Shiraishi (voice)