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A Forest of Wool and Steel (2018)

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Original title
羊と鋼の森
Directed by
Kōjirō Hashimoto
Genre
drama film
Country
Japan
Runtime
2h 14m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man named Tomura pursues his dream of becoming a piano tuner. The story follows his training and the people he meets along the way.

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What happens

A Forest of Wool and Steel (Japanese: 羊と鋼の森, Hepburn: Hitsuji to Hagane no Mori; lit. 'Sheep and Steel Forest') is a 2018 Japanese film directed by Kojiro Hashimoto and starring Kento Yamazaki. Based on the 2016 award-winning Booksellers novel by Natsu Miyashita, which tell the story about Tomura's ambition to become a piano tuner. An English translation of Miyashita's novel is due for release in April 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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