The Liar and His Lover

Dec 14, 2013

1h 57m

★ 7.6

Overview

Set within music field, this film depicts a love story between a 25-year-old sound engineer and 16-year-old high school student Riko, who posessess a gifted voice. 25-year-old sound engineer Aki is a member of popular band "Crude Play," but right after the band decides to make their major record debut Aki quits the band. But, Aki provides his music to Crude Play under the name of producer Soichiro. Aki begins to date Riko, whose father runs a fruit and vegetable shop. Riko doesn't know about Aki's background, but she likes to listen to him hum. Riko is in a band herself, with childhood friend Yuichi and Sota. One day she is scouted by producer Soichiro.

Genres

Music

Romance

Production Companies

TOHO

AMUSE

Fuji Television Network

Robot Communications

Shogakukan

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Cast

Aki Ogasawara

Takeru Satoh

Riko Koeda

Sakurako Ohara

Shun Sakaguchi

Shohei Miura

Shinya Shinohara

Masataka Kubota

Kaoru Ono

Kouki Mizuta

Teppei Yazaki

Kodai Asaka

Yuichi Kimijima

Ryo Yoshizawa

Sota Yamazaki

Yuki Morinaga

Miwako Nagahama

Mitsuki Tanimura

Mari

Saki Aibu

Soichiro Takagi

Takashi Sorimachi

young Aki Ogasawara

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