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When high school student Tomura Naoki met piano tuner Itadori Soichiro at his school in Hokkaido, he could smell the forest from the piano tuned by Soichiro. Touched, the boy decides to work together with Soichiro at his musical instruments store. Naoki develops relationships with many people related to the piano and he meets sister pianists and high school students Kazune and Yuni. ~~ Adapted from the novel "Hitsuji to Hagane no Mori" by Natsu Miyashita. The novel won the 13th Japan Booksellers' Award in 2016. Edit Translation

  • English
  • magyar / magyar nyelv
  • dansk
  • Norsk
  • Country: Japan
  • Type: Movie
  • Release Date: Jun 8, 2018
  • Duration: 2 hr. 13 min.
  • Score: 7.5 (scored by 376 users)
  • Ranked: #5566
  • Popularity: #6226
  • Content Rating: G - All Ages

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PHope
7 people found this review helpful
Feb 19, 2019
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Overall 6.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 7.5
Rewatch Value 4.0
A forest of Wool and Steel is more like a novel, packed with emotions and music. Rather than a good story, this one focused more on the aesthetics and how to represent the sound of the music a piano creates with nature and, especially, the forest. There was a ghost of a story, with the main character choosing to become a piano tuner and working as one, while encountering some piano players and helping them create the perfect sound that they are looking for. But the story was just okay, as there was no intensity nor real point in it. Rather, the breathtaking views of the forest and the water, as well as the music, they were the main protagonists of the movie. Finally, the performances were good from all the cast members.

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mangodesu
3 people found this review helpful
Apr 5, 2023
Completed 0
Overall 8.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 8.0

calming and mellow film!

I might need to watch this again but it was quite a beautiful film. Each of the piano pieces created such vivid scenery and emersed you into the moment. I also liked how you, the viewer, got to see how much intricate work goes into tuning and fixing pianos. The subject matter should've bored me but it was actually very interesting. You could feel the passion from all the characters, especially the girls whenever they played. It was inspiring in a way.

Although the script was poetic at times, what I took away was more of the nature scenes that accompanied the music. This isn't really plot-driven--not much happens, just a lot of pianos lol. But def watch if you wanna get swept up in the pretty music and lovely imagery of lush green forests.

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  • Movie: A Forest of Wool and Steel
  • Country: Japan
  • Release Date: Jun 8, 2018
  • Duration: 2 hr. 13 min.
  • Content Rating: G - All Ages

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  • Score: 7.5 (scored by 376 users)
  • Ranked: #5566
  • Popularity: #6226
  • Watchers: 1,828

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