Your Lie in April
is a 2016 Japanese youth music romance film directed by Takehiko Shinjō, written by , starring Suzu Hirose and Kento Yamazaki and based on the manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Naoshi Arakawa. It was released in Japan by Toho on September 10, 2016.
Plot
Kōsei Arima is a piano prodigy who has won many awards due to his precision, timing, and ability to switch between tempos easily, earning him the moniker "the human metronome". He achieved so much because he was meticulously taught by his terminally ill mother, Saki, who was abusive and demanding. When, as a seven-year-old, she slapped him after a victory that she deemed unwarranted, he declared his refusal to play the piano ever again and wished that she died. Indeed, Saki died the following day; this caused Kōsei to experience a mental breakdown during a recital, making him unable to hear sounds from the piano. Since then, Kōsei quit playing piano in public.
More details
| author | Yukari Tatsui |
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| director | Takehiko Shinjō |
| editor | Junnosuke Hogaki |
| genre | live-action romance |
| keywords | accompaniment accompany alt-wiener tanzweisen child prodigy childhood friends create double date first time hear ill mother love\'s sorrow mental breakdown metronome playing piano playing violin prodigy spring terminal terminal illness |
| musicBy | Ryo Yoshimata |
| producer | Kôhei Furukawa Minami Ichikawa Takashi Ishihara |
| productionCompany | Fuji TV Kodansha Toho |
| publisher | Toho |
| theme | action high school japanese |