Quartet! (2012)

“Quartet” centers around Nagae Kai, a promising middle-school violinist living in Urayasu, Chiba. His music teacher, Chihiro, tells him to find his own “sound,” but Kai can’t seem to concentrate on his music due to his family’s issues. Though his family has a background in music — both his parents majored in music in college — they gave up their dreams of a professional music career for the sake of the family. Kai’s older sister, Masaki, is a troubled high schooler who has an inferiority complex due to her younger brother’s natural musical talents overshadowing her own flute-playing aspirations. The father, Naoki, is laid off from work and has to take on the role of home caregiver while his wife, Hiromi, makes ends-meet at the local fish market. When one day Kai returns home from school to discover his father playing piano in their dusty “Beethoven’s Room,” he has a burst of inspiration for the family to form a Family Quartet. The almost-crumbled family makes a slow recovery back to happiness and togetherness. Edit Translation

• English
• magyar / magyar nyelv
• dansk
• Norsk