Plot

In an audacious rework of the biopic, this ensemble drama sees jazz pianist Minami Hiroshi's memoir cleverly reinterpreted into a surreal and playful story about chasing dreams, disillusionment and the inner lives of professional artists.

Hiroshi is an excellent pianist with a passion for jazz. But making a living from his talent in Tokyo in 1988 is no easy task. He is reduced to playing in cabarets and hostess bars in the underworld district of Ginza. The least that can be said is that the public pays no attention to his music. Worse still, the young man gets into trouble when he agrees to play the love theme from the film "The Godfather" for a yakuza, which irritates an enemy mafioso who considers the piece to be reserved for him.—Guy Bellinger