Synopsis
Kanna (MIYAZAKI Aoi) is an employee of a record company. One day, she sees a performance of a punk band named "Shonen Merikesack" and she is deeply impressed by the band. Kanna finds the band but they are no more "boys" but become "middle-age men". The performance that she saw was 25 years ago. In addition, the singer is suffering from aphasia and the drummer can"t sit on chair because he has hemorrhoids. Haruo, the guitarist and Akio, the bassist have a deep family feud between the brothers, which makes it impossible to re-unite the band. Nonetheless, Kanna has to make their nationwide tour possible at the special order from the president of the company.
Playing the roles in a number of band movies such as Nana(2005) and Soranin(2010), MIYAZAKI Aoi plays the key role in this film. In addition, a lot of famous Japanese bands appear in this film. Thanks to their performance, the movie can keep its detailed description about the band life and serious tone about music despite the fussy mood which often appear in typical Japanese teenage movies. Ginan BOYZ plays the young "Shonen Merikesack" and "SAKEROCK" plays the role of the musician which Kanna"s company represents. "SAKEROCK" showed performance at the CINE ROCK Night of the 11th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival. Yuugi of "Guitar Wolf", who is well known for the fake documentary Three Important Things for Rock" n Roll (2006) produced in Korea, plays a nonchalant record studio staff. The movie"s OST jointly created by Ginan BOYZ and ZAZEN BOY provides another pleasure to the audience. (AHN Sung Min)