Your Lie in April

“Experience the joy of love and the pain of loss.”

Years of piano competitions under his mother's strict watch earned Kousei Arima (Kento Yamazaki) the nickname "human metronome." Since her death he can no longer hear the sound of his own playing, and his childhood friend Tsubaki Sawabe (Anna Ishii) draws him toward Kaori Miyazono (Suzu Hirose), a free-spirited violinist who is keeping a secret. Takehiko Shinjo shows how one person's music can give another the nerve to sit back down at the keys.