Hiroyuki Ono

Based on webcomic “Musicophilia” by Akira Saso published in 2011, this is a film about Saku Urushibara, a young man with a special ability to understand sounds in nature. His father is a prominent composer, and his younger half-brother is a genius music composer. Due to the success achieved by his father and half-brother, Saku Urushibara has an inferiority complex. He tries to stay away from music because of this, but he ends up enrolling at the University of Arts in Kyoto where his special ability helps him find his own voice in the world of contemporary classical music.

Alumni of Ibaraki High School learn that one of their classmates is killed in an accident on the tenth anniversary of their graduation, necessitating an unexpected reunion and “on-campus funeral”. They spend a strange night together, during which the secrets of his life are revealed and they rededicate themselves to his memory, with a new outlook on life.

京都・太秦にある、日映撮影所。そこに所属する香美山清一（福本清三）は、斬られ役として長年大部屋俳優を務め、無数のチャンバラ時代劇に出演してきた。ある日、およそ半世紀にわたって放送されていたテレビ時代劇「江戸桜風雲録」が打ち切りになり、後番組として若年層向け時代劇がスタートするが、そこにはベテランたちが活躍する場はなかった。そんな中、香美山は伊賀さつき（山本千尋）という新進女優と出会い、殺陣の師匠となって彼女に指導をしていくが……。