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A CAPPELA

MUBANSO

By Hitoshi YAZAKI

KING RECORDS CO.,LTD - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, JAPAN / PROD

Drama - Completed 2016

Based on a novel of a same name by Naoki prize winning author, Mariko Koike.

Goteborg IFF 2016

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 132 mn
- Director(s)
- Hitoshi YAZAKI
- Writer(s)
- Chiai TAKEDA, Masa ASANISHI
- Cast
- Riko NARUMI, Sosuke IKEMATSU, Takumi SAITO
- Synopsis
- Set in 1969, when Japanese students were enmeshed with campus riots, anti-war rallies, and the growth of subcultures in music, cinema, literature, and theater. Influenced by the atmosphere of the time, the protagonist, Kyoko, a senior at a girls’ high school, forms an “Anti-Uniform Committee” and joins a rally at a university. However, Kyoko hates herself because she knows she is only copying others. One day, she is wounded at a rally, and realizes she has been taking campus riot for granted. Fleeing from the riot police, she runs into “A Cappella,” the café where she meets and falls in love with a college student named Wataru. She undergoes a sexual awakening and loses her virginity. Things seem to be going well with Wataru, but then she witnesses something she cannot believe…
  The film depicts the emotional rollercoaster of being a teenager. Love, hurt, betrayal and rebellion all play a role.
  “A Cappella” is a coming-of-age tale, where one finds something important and grows up by losing it.