Can Kırığı

Can Kırık Book Description Akira Mizubayashi brings together themes such as remembrance, rootlessness and eternal mourning with the tones of classical music in Can Kırık. Tokyo, 1938. Four amateur musicians who are passionate about classical music—Japanese English professor Yu and three Chinese guest students—meet and rehearse regularly. During the Japan-China War, this bridge of friendship built by music was destroyed when soldiers raided the rehearsal and accused four musicians of conspiring against the Emperor. One of the soldiers will break Yu's violin and take all the musicians to the headquarters for questioning, and these moments will be the last time Yu's 11-year-old son Rei, who was hiding in the closet at that time, sees his father. From that day on, Rei will have to mourn his father's death with his only memory of his father, a broken violin, and grow up by rebuilding his memory. (From the Promotional Bulletin)