is a 2018 Japanese film directed by Kojiro Hashimoto and starring Kento Yamazaki. Based on the 2016 award-winning Booksellers novel Hitsuji to Hagane no Mori by Natsu Miyashita, 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.

Plot

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.

A Forest of Wool and Steel

Cast

Kento Yamazaki as Naoki Tomura

Tomokazu Miura as Soichiro Itadori

Mone Kamishiraishi as Kazune Sakura

Moka Kamishiraishi as Yuni Sakura

Ryohei Suzuki as Shinji Yanagi

Yuu Shirota as Masato Kamijyo

Hayato Sano as Masaki Tomura

Keiko Horiuchi as Mizuki Kitakawa

Ken Mitsuishi as Tadashi Akino

Riisa Naka as Eri Hamano

Yuki Morinaga as Takashi Minami

Kazuko Yoshiyuki as Kiyo Tomura

Awards

References

External links

2018 films

Toho films

Films based on Japanese novels

Japanese drama films

Synesthesia

2010s Japanese films

2010s Japanese-language films

A Forest of Wool and Steel