Kuchibiru ni uta o (2011)

Original title

くちびるに歌を

Directed by

Takahiro Miki

Genre

romance

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 12m

Rated

G

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A substitute teacher arrives at a small island school and forms a choir with the students. Together they prepare for a national music competition.

heartfeltnostalgicgentlehopefultenderquietpoignantwarm

What happens

Have a Song on Your Lips (くちびるに歌を, Kuchibiru ni uta o) is a 2015 Japanese film directed by Takahiro Miki and based on a novel of the same title by Eiichi Nakata (a/k/a Otsuichi) published in 2011. The original novel is inspired by a television documentary "Greetings to a 15 year old - Students on the island who walked with songs" (broadcast by NHK in May 2009), which depicts the interaction between Angela Aki (the songwriter of "Letter: Greetings to a 15 Year Old" which was an assigned song for the NHK National School Music Competition in 2008) and junior high school students on Wakamatsu Island in the Goto Islands of Nagasaki Prefecture. The novel has been adapted into a novel for children as well as a manga of the same title (by Taishi Mori). The film was released on February 28, 2015. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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