Gauche the Cellist

Gauche the Cellist (1998) is a animation, music film directed by Hiromitsu Morita.

This is essentially a highly condensed remake of the famous 1982 Isao Takahara release. It tells the story of Gauche, a struggling cellist in a provincial orchestra. He is visited by four talking animals - a cat, a cuckoo, a tanuki, and a field mouse - on successive nights They help him to improve his playing, just in time for orchestra’s concert performance of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony.

Cast

Mizue Otsuka

Tanuki (voice)

Takeshi Kusao

Gauche (voice)

Saori Kaneda

Little Mouse (voice)

Ayumi Furuyama

Mother Mouse (voice)

Atsushi Kisaichi

Cuckoo (voice)

Taiki Matsuno

Three-haired Cat (voice)

Masaharu Sato

Music Director (voice)