Have a song on your lips

Kuchibiru ni uta wo, feature film, drama, musical, Japan, 2015

DIRECTED BY: Takahiro Miki

Have a song on your lips
©2013 「Have a Song on Your Lips」 Film's Partners/2008 Eiichi Nakata/ Shogakkan

CAST:
Yui Aragaki (Yuri Kashiwaga),
Fumino Kimura (Haruko Matsuyama),
Kenta Kiritani (Tetsuo Tsukamoto),
Yuri Tsunematsu (Nazuna Tsunematsu),
Shota Shimoda (Satoru Kuwahara)

SCRIPT:
Yukiko Mochiji,
Yûichi Toyone (based on Otsuichi’s novel)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Koichi Nakayama

Synopsis:

Yuri Kashiwaga is a talented musician who leaves Tokyo and returns to her hometown on the Goto islands. Her friend and a teacher in the local school goes on maternity leave and Yuri substitutes for her. She is also in charge of the school choir, which is preparing for a competition. Yuri gives her students a task to write a letter to themselves as if they were 15 years older. Thus, fifteen-year-olds reveal their current secrets and worries to the thirty-year-old versions of themselves.

color, digital, 132 min

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