Gauche the Cellist

Gauche the Cellist — Plot

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.

• Release date
• March 13, 1998
• Runtime
• 20 min
• Genres
• Animation, Music, Family, Fantasy
• Director
• Hiromitsu Morita

Gauche the Cellist — Cast

Mizue Otsuka Tanuki (voice) Takeshi Kusao Gauche (voice)

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Saori Kaneda Little Mouse (voice)

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Ayumi Furuyama Mother Mouse (voice) Atsushi Kisaichi Cuckoo (voice) Taiki Matsuno Three-haired Cat (voice) Masaharu Sato Music Director (voice)