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A Cappella (2016)
Director: Hitoshi Yazaki
Cast: Riko Narumi, Sosuke Ikematsu, Takumi Saitoh, Nina Endo
Runtime132 min
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Set in the year 1969 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Kyoko Noma is a loving female high school student who takes part in campus protests. One day, she meets university student Wataru Domoto in the tea cafe Mubansou ("A Cappella"). Kyoko falls in love with him, but they get involved in an incident that leads to a shocking ending.
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Fans of thoughtful, character-driven Japanese dramas will appreciate the sensitive performances and evocative 1960s setting in director Hitoshi Yazaki's 2016 film A Cappella, which explores the complex emotional journey of a high school student who falls in love with a university protester amidst the turbulent social upheaval of the era.
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Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment. The term a cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphonic and Baroque concertato musical styles. In the 19th century, a renewed interest in Renaissance polyphony, coupled with an ignorance of the fact that vocal parts were often doubled by instrumentalists, led to the term coming to mean unaccompanied vocal music. The term is also used, rarely, as a synonym for alla breve.
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