Gauche the Cellist

Gauche the Cellist

1998 · 20 min · Animation, Music, Family, Fantasy

This is essentially a highly condensed remake of the famous 1982 Isao Takahara release. It tells the story of Gauche, a struggling cellist in a provincial orchestra. He is visited by four talking animals - a cat, a cuckoo, a tanuki, and a field mouse - on successive nights They help him to improve his playing, just in time for orchestra’s concert performance of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony.

Directed by Hiromitsu Morita

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