The Anthem of the Heart (2015)

Original title

心が叫びたがってるんだ。

Directed by

Tatsuyuki Nagai

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h

Rated

PG

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 433 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A girl stops speaking due to a childhood trauma. She joins a school musical project with a few classmates and learns to express her true feelings through song.

emotionalheartfeltbittersweethopefulcharacter-drivenquietly intensemelancholicinspiring

What happens

The Anthem of the Heart (Japanese: 心が叫びたがってるんだ。, Hepburn: Kokoro ga Sakebitagatterunda; lit. 'My Heart Wants to Shout'), abbreviated as Kokosake (ここさけ) and subtitled Beautiful Word Beautiful World, is a 2015 Japanese animated youth drama film produced by A-1 Pictures and released in 2015. The film was directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai and written by Mari Okada. Masayoshi Tanaka served as the chief animation director and designed the characters. The trio, under the creative team name of Super Peace Busters, had previously worked on Toradora! and Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day. The film was released in theaters in Japan on September 19, 2015. The Anthem of the Heart received several accolades, including Best Animated Feature at the 36th Anima Festival, Best Rookie Voice Actor (Minase) at the 25th Japanese Movie Critics Awards; it was also nominated for Animation of the Year at the 39th Japan Academy Film Prize and Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2016. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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