Gauche the Cellist

Movie · 0h 20m

Starring Mizue Otsuka, Takeshi Kusao, Saori Kaneda, Ayumi Furuyama

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.