Monooki no Piano

[Machine Translation] Kyoko Yoshine, the heroine of NHK Asano's TV series "Bepin-san", plays the leading role in a film for the first time. This is the story of a young girl who was born in a small peach farm in Fukushima and was fascinated by the piano. --The town is located in Kuwari-cho, Fukushima Prefecture. The town is rich in nature, where peach blossoms bloom in spring and rice fields stretch as far as the eye can see in summer. The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident that followed the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011 left the cities, towns, and villages of Fukushima Prefecture at the mercy of radiation, something unseen. The setting of this story is a peach farmer in the town of Kuwari. It is the summer of July 2012, one year after the disaster. Haruka Miyamoto, a high school senior, plays the piano in a dimly lit storeroom, melting into the fragrance of summer grass. Haruka has an older sister, Akiha, who is attending a university in Tokyo. Akiha is a talented and beautiful woman who can do anything. Compared to her, Haruka is a timid, weak-willed, clumsy, and useless person. For Haruka, the storeroom is the only place where she can feel at ease and the center of her world, but...

Special Feature / Bonus Track: making-of featurette (subject to change)

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いつもそばにある大切なもの―。NHK浅野連続テレビ小説「べっぴんさん」のヒロインを務める芳根京子 映画初主演。福島の小さな桃農家に生まれ、ピアノに魅せられたひとりの少女の物語。――福島県桑折町。春は鮮やかな桃の花が咲き誇り、夏は見渡す限りの田園が彼方まで続く 自然豊かな町。2011年3月11日の東日本大震災発生。それにともなう福島第一原子力発電所の事故は 福島県内の市町村は放射能という目に見えないものに翻弄される日々を送っていた。この物語の舞台は桑折町のひとつの桃農家。2012年7月。あの震災から一年後の夏。高校三年生の宮本春香が奏でるピアノは薄暗い物置の中から 夏草の薫りの中に溶け込んでゆく―。春香には東京の大学に通う姉・秋葉がいた。優秀で何でも出来る美人な秋葉。それに比べて臆病で意気地なしで不器用なダメな自分。そんな春香にとって物置が唯一の心安らぐ場所であり、世界の中心だったが・・・。

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