The Little Maestro

This movie tell a story that set in a small fishing village in Shikamachi, Ishikawa Prefecture. People in this village depend on the local amateur orchestra as their favorite source of entertainment. When the conductor dies unexpectedly, the townspeople recruit the man’s granddaughter, a high school student with a talent for conducting.

2013

1h 48min

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Top Billed Cast

有村架純
Misaki Yoshikawa
釈由美子
Midori Mimura
蟹江敬三
Genji Arasawa
筒井真理子
Youko Isaka
篠井英介
Iwao Ono
上遠野太洸
Masaya Ono
松本利夫
Masaru Arasawa
前田吟
Tatsuji Minatogawa
Michiyoshi Inoue
Maestro Orfenstein
小倉久寛
Hiroshi Taniguchi

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