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The first feature-length animated film was Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' released in 1937.
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Matsugorou Sawamura is a shamisen player of legendary talent. Upon his death, his grandson, Setsu Sawamura, lost his ability to play. Having lost his beloved sound, Setsu finds himself in Tokyo in search of a new sound to love. Tachiki Yuna, who works at a club, hooks him up with a gig to play there as a warm up act. Setsu imbues the sound of his shamisen with his many thoughts and feelings he has of others, still searching for his own sound and his own feelings.
Directors: Hiroki Imamura, Hiromichi Matano, Masahiko Watanabe, Masakazu Takahashi, Masamune Hirata, Matsuo Asami, Naoki Murata, Park Gyeong-sun, Shinya Une, Takuo Suzuki, Yasuaki Fujii, Yoshiyuki ShirahataWriters: Aki Itami, Hiroko Fukuda, Kanichi KatoProducers: Hiroyuki Aoi, Masahiro Hibi, Motomichi Araki, Noboru Sugiyama, Shin Furukawa, Takuya Matsumoto, Toshihiro Maeda, Yasuhiro Tanada, Yohei Takami


Nobunaga Shimazaki
as Setsu Sawamura (voice)


Yoshimasa Hosoya
as Wakana Sawamura (voice)


Takako Honda
as Umeko Sawamura (voice)

Tomohisa Aso
as Matsugoro Sawamura (voice)


Yume Miyamoto
as Shuri Maeda (voice)


Reina Kondo
as Yui Yamazato (voice)


Nobuhiko Okamoto
as Kaito Yaguchi (voice)


Tatsuhisa Suzuki
as Rai Nagamori (voice)