A Forest of Wool and Steel | |
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Director: | Kojiro Hashimoto |
Screenplay: | Arisa Kaneko |
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Music: | Hiroko Sebu |
Editing: | Ryūichi Takita |
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Distributor: | Toho |
Country: | Japan |
Language: | Japanese |
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is a 2018 Japanese film directed by Kojiro Hashimoto and starring Kento Yamazaki.[2] [3] Based on the 2016 award-winning Booksellers novel Hitsuji to Hagane no Mori by Natsu Miyashita,[4] which tell the story about Tomura's ambition to become a piano tuner. An English translation of Miyashita's novel is due for release in April 2019.[5]
When in high school, Naoki Tomura watched a piano tuner, Soichiro Itadori, work on the school piano. He could smell the forest from the piano tuning by Soichiro. When he graduated he worked at the music instrument store where Soichiro works.