Gauche the Cellist (1998)

Gauche the Cellist

1998

Animation Music Family Fantasy

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Hiromitsu Morita

Cast

Atsushi Kisaichi as Cuckoo (voice)

Ayumi Furuyama as Mother Mouse (voice)

Masaharu Sato as Music Director (voice)

Mizue Ōtsuka as Tanuki (voice)

Saori Kaneda as Little Mouse (voice)

Taiki Matsuno as Three-haired Cat (voice)

Takeshi Kusao as Gauche (voice)

Crew