Film

Gauche the Cellist

1998 · 20m · Animation · Music · Family

This is essentially a highly condensed remake of the famous 1982 Isao Takahara release. It tells the story of Gauche, a struggling cellist in a provincial orchestra. He is visited by four talking animals - a cat, a cuckoo, a tanuki, and a field mouse - on successive nights They help him to improve his playing, just in time for orchestra’s concert performance of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony.

Mizue Otsuka

Tanuki (voice)

Takeshi Kusao

Gauche (voice)

Saori Kaneda

Little Mouse (voice)

Ayumi Furuyama

Mother Mouse (voice)

Atsushi Kisaichi

Cuckoo (voice)

Taiki Matsuno

Three-haired Cat (voice)

Masaharu Sato

Music Director (voice)

• Hiromitsu MoritaDirector
• Akira IshikawaOriginal Music Composer
• Osamu TanakaEditor

Release date

March 13, 1998

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

20m

Genres

Animation, Music, Family, Fantasy

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