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.
Unfortunately the movie Gauche the Cellist is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Directing | Hiromitsu Morita | Director |
| Writing | Kenji Miyazawa | Screenplay |
