AnimationDrama
A tranquil tale about two boys from very different upbringings. On one hand you have Kai, born as the son of a prostitute, who's been playing the abandoned piano in the forest near his home ever since he was young. And on the other you have Syuhei, practically breast-fed by the piano as the son of a family of prestigious pianists. Yet it is their common bond with the piano that eventually intertwines their paths in life.
Shuhei Amamiya transfers into Kai Ichinose's elementary school. As an aspiring pianist, he's shocked that Kai has no teacher after hearing him play.
To Ajino, who hurt his musical abilities in a car accident, meeting Kai seems like fate. But Kai just wants to be able to play a certain Chopin piece.
Ajino sets a Mozart piece as Kai's entry for the contest, but Kai worries that he hasn't found his own style of playing. Shuhei is favored to win.
After Takako's performance, it's time for Kai to take the stage. With his mother, Ajino and Shuhei's father watching, it's time to show his skills.
After the contest, Shuhei transfers back to Tokyo and Kai finds that the piano in the woods is broken. Takako vows to win for Kai's sake.
The piano in the forest goes up in flames, but Ajino tells Kai that it can live on within him. His mother tells him to concentrate on his music.
Five years later, Shuhei returns to Japan determined to see Kai again. After some searching, he finds his friend in a very unexpected place.
An injured Takako travels to Tokyo with her teacher Shiba, who first noticed her at the competition five years before. There, she meets Kai again.
At the Chopin competition preliminaries in Poland, Kai nearly has a meltdown, but Shuhei performs as usual. Shuhei is frustrated when they meet again.
The first contestants take the stage for the Chopin competition. Kai is shocked that a Chinese pianist's playing sounds just like Ajino's.
Cast: Junichi Suwabe, Soma Saito, Hideyuki Tanaka, Natsuki Hanae, Natsuki Mori, Koji Yusa, Anna Mugiho, Kenta Zaima, Marie Miyake, Bin Shimada, Yuichi Nakamura, Hironori Kondoh, Rika Kinugawa, Kajetan Rodziewicz, Ryoko Shiraishi, Eiichiro Tokumoto, Tomohisa Aso, Maaya Sakamoto, Hiroyuki Endo, You Taichi, KENN, Katsuyuki Konishi, Aoi Yuki, Kanehira Yamamoto, Hitoshi Bifu, Takahiro Sumi, Toshiyuki Toyonaga, Ryunosuke Watanuki, Yuina Yamada, Risa Hayamizu
Genres: Animation, Drama
Maturity rating: TV-PG
Junichi Suwabe
Sosuke Ajino (voice)
Soma Saito
Kai Ichinose (voice)
Hideyuki Tanaka
Yoichiro Amamiya (voice)
Natsuki Hanae
Shuhei Amamiya (voice)
Natsuki Mori
Christina Bayer (voice)
Koji Yusa
Takeshi Saga (voice)
Anna Mugiho
Anna Bilińska (voice)
Kenta Zaima
Igor Gutmann (voice)
Marie Miyake
Namie Amamiya (voice)
Bin Shimada
Jean Jacques Serrault (voice)
Yuichi Nakamura
Wei Pang (voice)
Hironori Kondoh
Jan Turczyński (voice)
Rika Kinugawa
(voice)
Kajetan Rodziewicz
Master of Ceremonies (voice)
Ryoko Shiraishi
Kai Ichinose as an Elementary School Boy (voice)
Eiichiro Tokumoto
Andrzej Pavlas (voice)
Tomohisa Aso
Piotr Weber (voice)
Maaya Sakamoto
Reiko Ichinose (voice)
Hiroyuki Endo
David Smith (voice)
You Taichi
Shuhei Amamiya as an Elementary School Boy (voice)
KENN
Lech Szymanowski (voice)
Katsuyuki Konishi
Karol Adamski (voice)
Aoi Yuki
Takako Maruyama (voice)
Kanehira Yamamoto
Adam Jasiński (voice)
Hitoshi Bifu
Józef Stroik (voice)
Takahiro Sumi
Jacek Hoffman (voice)
Toshiyuki Toyonaga
Kosei Hirata (voice)
Ryunosuke Watanuki
Waldemar Ekiert (voice)
Yuina Yamada
(voice)
Risa Hayamizu
Victoria Campbell (voice)
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