Figure 1.-- The movie is about Michio who is adversely affected by a uncle's death. He has trouble at his new boarding school because he stutters badly. A friend concinces him to join the school choir which helps hom over come his stutter.

An Australian reader writes, "The movie 'The Choir' was on our multi-cultural channel in 2002. Because all of the credits are in japanese, it is difficult to glean information about the movie. The movie is part of a series from the "Tales From The Orphange" range." The movie starts with Michio (stutters badly) sitting alongside his uncles sick bed. He his taking copius notes on his uncles health. Every time a nurse takes his uncles temperature or checks his heart beat, Michio writes it down and formulates it into a graph. The nurse comments on Michios uncle reaching the 'cross of death' and she rushes off to find a doctor. At this stage, Michio connects the graphs together and realises what the nurse meant when she spoke of the cross of death, all of the graphs cross over, obviously, this indicates a point of no return. His uncle then sits up in bed and talks to Michio before he collapses and dies. Michio has taken this very hard and runs from the hospital. Sometime later he is told that he will be enroled at a boarding school (unsure if Michio was living with uncle or not) and would be leaving straight away. This is interesting because we have not note much information about boardung schools in Japan. Once he arrives at the school, he is introduced to the other students and they make fun of the fact that he has a bad stutter. Only Yasuo (a student with a voice of an angel) takes any interest in him and encourages him to join the school choir. It is the singing with the choir and the help of a sympathetic teacher that help Michio overcome his stuttering. I tried doing a search on the internet, but found very little on the movie. Even IMDB did not have it in their extensive records.

Created: 12:29 AM 9/24/2006
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