Instruments of a Beating Heart (2024)

23m
Running Time

June 14, 2024
Release Date

Instruments of a Beating Heart (2024)

23m
Running Time

June 14, 2024
Release Date

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Plot.

First graders in a Tokyo public elementary school are presented with a challenge for the final semester: performing "Ode to Joy" at the ceremony for the new incoming first graders. Ayame, who often struggles to keep up with the group, is determined to play a major part — the big drum.

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Cast & Crew.

Ema Ryan Yamazaki

Ema Ryan Yamazaki

Director

Eric Nyari

Eric Nyari

Producer

Shin Yasuda

Shin Yasuda

Executive Producer

Akihiko Sugie

Akihiko Sugie

Executive Producer

Mizue Kunizane

Mizue Kunizane

Executive Producer

Mizuki Toriya

Mizuki Toriya

Editor

Kazuki Kakurai

Kazuki Kakurai

Cinematography

Iwama Tsubasa

Iwama Tsubasa

Sound Recordist

Details.

Release Date
June 14, 2024

Status
Released

Running Time
23m

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Instruments of a Beating Heart is a 2024 Japanese documentary short film directed by Ema Ryan Yamazaki. Edited down from Yamazaki's 2023 feature The Making of a Japanese, the film documents the challenge presented to the first graders in a Tokyo public elementary school of performing "Ode to Joy" at the ceremony for the new incoming first graders, as their assignment for the final semester.

Instruments of a Beating Heart had its world premiere on June 14, 2024, in the Shorts Program: One-of-a-Kind of DC/DOX Film Festival 2024. It won Best Short Documentary at the 40th IDA Documentary Awards and was nominated for Best Documentary Short Film at the 97th Academy Awards.

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