The Anthem of the Heart
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Promotional poster featuring main character Jun Naruse
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| Japanese | 心が叫びたがってるんだ。 |
| Hepburn | Kokoro ga Sakebitagatterunda |
| Literally | The Heart Wants to Shout |
| Directed by | Tatsuyuki Nagai |
| Produced by | Shunsuke Saito |
| Screenplay by | Mari Okada |
| Story by | Chōheiwa Busters |
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| Music by | Mito Masaru Yokoyama |
| Cinematography | Hiroyuki Moriyama |
| Edited by | Shigeru Nishiyama |
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| Distributed by | Aniplex |
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120 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office | US$8.5 million |
The Anthem of the Heart, subtitled Beautiful Word Beautiful World, is a 2015 Japanese animated youth drama film produced by A-1 Pictures, directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai and written by Mari Okada. The original title is Kokoro ga Sakebitagatterunda. (心が叫びたがってるんだ。?, lit. The Heart Wants to Shout), and it is abbreviated as Kokosake (ここさけ?). It was worked on by the staff who had previously worked on the anime series Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day and its film adaptation. It was released on September 19, 2015.
The story revolves around a young girl named Jun Naruse. She is a girl known to be a chatterbox, always saying whatever she likes. One day she sees her father come out from one love hotel with another woman and tells her mother about this, resulting in her parents' divorce. Her father blames her, saddening Jun. While crying, a fairy egg appears and seals her words so she won't hurt people again.
When Jun is in high school, as the result of the "curse", Jun is unable to speak or convey her words aloud. Her homeroom teacher, Kazuki Jōshima, signs her up to Charity Committee members along with three other people: Takumi Sakagami, Natsuki Nitō, and Daiki Tasaki. Daiki adamantly refuses, leading Jun to finally voice her objection after a long time. However, this causes her to have a stomachache.
Going to the committee room to properly reject becoming a committee member, she hears Takumi singing and is captivated. She then tells Takumi of her past and requests him to turn her words into a song, thinking that the curse won't apply if she's singing.
Meanwhile, Daiki, who is depressed for being unable to join his baseball team because of his injuries, is convinced by his teammate to flirt with Natsuki to be his girlfriend since it is a custom for the captain of the baseball team to date the captain of the cheerleader team. However, Natsuki reveals that she's going out with someone and replies that who she is going out with is a secret when Daiki asks who it is.
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