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Director Name: Naoko Yamada (山田尚子)


K-ON! The MOVIE

映画 けいおん!   영화 케이온 !   電影 K-ON !輕音部

110 min.

Four high school girls join the Light Music Club to save it from being abolished when all of its members graduate. Although most of them don’t have much experience playing a musical instrument, they all decide to give it a shot. Yui, takes up the electric guitar. Ritsu plays the drums. Mio, the smart but shy one, is the base guitarist and the Gentle child of affluence, Tsumugi, plays the keyboards. In their sophomore year, the wide-eyed freshman Azusa lends her considerable guitar skills to finally form the five member band, HO-KAGO Tea Time.
Now they just need to stop having tea parties and get busy practicing!

Tamako Love Story

たまこラブストーリー   타마코 러브스토리   玉子市場之純愛物語

84 min.

INTRODUCTION
Reiko Yoshida pens an all-new coming-of-age story about the passion and purity of youth that will tickle and squeeze your heart. Yukiko Horiguchi’s renders exquisitely distinctive teen characters emerging from the throes of puberty into adulthood. Naoko Yamada directs a story replete with inexhaustible appeal and freshness. Three masters of the anime genre, forming a harmonious unit to cut one gemstone of a love story.

STORY
Spring. The start of senior year. Dusk. On the way home from school. Tamako, Midori and two friends discuss their futures with shades of trepidation and earnestness. Tamako responds with a casual air. She’s going to take over the family business. Meanwhile, her long time neighbor across the street, Mochizo, has come to a momentous decision. It augurs the start of many changes around them. Gradually, Tamako begins to feel a change of heart.