Overview
This movie tell a story that set in a small fishing village in Shikamachi, Ishikawa Prefecture. People in this village depend on the local amateur orchestra as their favorite source of entertainment. When the conductor dies unexpectedly, the townspeople recruit the man’s granddaughter, a high school student with a talent for conducting.
Director and cast
- Kasumi Arimura as Misaki Yoshikawa
- Yumiko Shaku as Midori Mimura
- Keizo Kanie as Genji Arasawa
- Mariko Tsutsui as Youko Isaka
- Eisuke Sasai as Iwao Ono
- Taiko Katono as Masaya Ono
- Matsu as Masaru Arasawa
- Gin Maeda as Tatsuji Minatogawa
- Michiyoshi Inoue as Maestro Orfenstein
- Hisahiro Ogura as Hiroshi Taniguchi
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