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Photo courtesy of Toho. ©2019 Kei Ishikawa, whose directorial debut GUKOROKU – TRACES OF SIN (???, Gukoruku, 2017) officially screened at the 73rd Venice Film Festival, returns with LISTEN TO THE UNIVERSE (?????, Mitsubachi to Enrai). Ishikawa`s screenplay is adapted from Riku Onda`s novel of the same name. The drama depicts the complex relations among four gifted young pianists attending a piano competition. STORY Talented musicians gather for the Yoshigae International Piano Competition. Aya Mayu Matsuoka is a former piano prodigy who won junior contests domestically and abroad but distanced herself from the piano after the death of her mother when she was 13. The tirelessly diligent Akashi (Tori Matsuzaka) has a steady job and is married with kids but, unable to give up on his dream, he takes his last shot at it by entering the competition. Masaru (Win Morisaki) is a top student at an elite music academy struggling with the pressure of being the strongest championship hopeful. Jin (Oji Suzuka) is the mysterious young legacy of the world’s greatest pianist, now deceased. Facing the fierce rivalry of an international competition, the four piano geniuses with completely different backgrounds inspire each other and confront themselves as they grow and “awaken” along the way. CREDITS Japanese Release Date: October 4, 2019 Running Time: 119 Minutes Cast Aya Eiden: Mayu Matsuoka Akashi Takashima: Tori Matsuzaka Masaru Carlos Levi Anatole: Win Morisaki Jin Kazama: Oji Suzuka Machiko Takashima: Asami Usuda Jennifer Chang: Rila Fukushima Tadaaki Hishinuma: Ken Mitsuishi Hiroshi Takubo: Mitsuru Hirata Nathanael Silverberg: Andrzej Chyra Mieko Saga: Yuki Saito Masayuki Onodera: Takeshi Kaga Crew Director: Kei Ishikawa Original Story: Listen to the Universe by Riku Onda (Gentosha Bunko) Screenplay: Kei Ishikawa Producers: Yoshihiro Sato, Yusuke Ishiguro, Makoto Kakurai Director of Photography: Piotr Niemyjski Editors: Kei Ishikawa, Yoshinori Ota "Spring and Shura" Composer: Dai Fujikura Piano Performance: Naoko Kawamura, Kotaro Fukuma, Sanyu Kaneko, Mao Fujita Orchestra Performance: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra (Conductor Masahiko Enkouji) Production: "LISTEN TO THE UNIVERSE" Film Partners (TOHO / KINOSHITA GROUP / GENTOSHA / SME / HAKUHODO / The Asahi Shimbun / TOKYU AGENCY / Hikari-TV / NIPPAN / JIJI / Yamaha / KAWAI / Hirata International / FOSTER / GYAO / Chunichi Shimbun) Production Company: Toho Co., Ltd. Sales: TOHO CO., LTD. ©2019 "LISTEN TO THE UNIVERSE" Film Partners
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Founded in 1932 and headquartered in Tokyo, Toho Company, Ltd. is one of the leading entertainment conglomerates in Japan. Toho is best known worldwide as the producer of the Godzilla films, as well as most of the films by the world-renowned director, Akira Kurosawa. Besides film production, Toho also distributes Japanese films (earning the highest box office receipts for decades in Japan) as well as foreign films through its subsidiary, owns first class movie theaters throughout Japan, produces legitimate plays and musicals, and has more than 100 entertainment-related subsidiaries.