Piano in a Storeroom

(2014)

Year: 2014

Runtime: 115 мин

Country: Japan

Director: Chiaki Nitanai

Cast: 芳根京子, 小篠恵奈, Сиро Сано, 長谷川初範, 織本順吉, 平田満, 赤間麻里子

Plot

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.