Have a song on your lips
Kuchibiru ni uta wo, feature film, drama, musical, Japan, 2015
DIRECTED BY: Takahiro Miki
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