Piano in a Storeroom backdrop

Piano in a Storeroom 2014 Directed by Chiaki Nitanai 物置のピアノ

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.

Country Japan
Production Country Japan
Language Japanese
Spoken Language Japanese
Release Date 9 February 2014
115 mins