Film

Piano in a Storeroom

2014 · 1h 55m

Two sisters living on a peach farm in Koori town, Fukushima Prefecture,are opposites. Haruka Miyamoto feels less beautiful than her sister Akiba Miyamoto and hates being compared to her. She finds comfort in playing a piano in a barn. A year after the Great East Japan Earthquake, she decides she wants to be a pianist. Akiba, for her part, moved to Tokyo to attend college. When she moves back to Koori, Haruka is unsettled and memories connected to the disaster she has tried to forget resurface.

Kyoko Yoshine

Haruka Miyamoto

Ena Koshino

Akiba Miyamoto

Shiro Sano

Hatsunori Hasegawa

Junkichi Orimoto

Mitsuru Hirata

Mariko Akama

• Chiaki NitanaiDirector

Release date

February 9, 2014

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 55m