The coming of age movie has 3 high school students and uses jazz music to continue the story. The background of the story is Japanese cities and the '60s, World War II, which shows that the background of the story is very depressing. But the characters and jazz are the brilliance of this story. Another storyline that helped the three of them to face and transcend family, love, and friendship.

The highlight of this story is the harmonious blend of jazz without feeling weird or awkward also the actors and actresses of a good performer give a feeling of their real friendship. The picture is and the composition is beautiful and well organized. Anyway, the picture can promote the message that the movie wants to communicate well. Use jazz as the main theme. There was put in just the right fit and the music was a good substitute for words and feelings. It makes the audience feel good about jazz music.

After watching it, I felt love and warmed my heart and grew up with them. Loved both pictures and jazz music.

This movie was pretty good. Though I have to say that this movie is way less fun than the original anime. It missed a lot of elements that the series did have. And of course, the series is longer than the movie so they had to shorten it. But I think they could have added a bit more scenes that were in the series. If you haven't seen the series, then this will be a great movie. If you have seen the series, you can still watch it, but the series is way better in my opinion. Overall, this movie is quite fun. Especially if you like jazz.

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie about two totally different characters becoming friends and bonding over music. I usually dislike jazz, but watching it being played live so you can appreciate the craft is always fascinating and the music scenes are so well choreographed, it's really uplifting and captivating. To round it off with some feminine energy and a little romance, the third friend in the mix is a cute and really charming girl. I also liked how the movie (very briefly) addresses the conflicts brought by the American occupation, its undisciplined, disreputable soldiers and the sad effects of people from two different ethnic groups having children, basically creating a person who doesn't know where they belong because they aren't really part of either group. All the protagonists are very likeable and charismatic and they have great chemistry. Definitely worth watching!