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Riku Onda's "Bees and Distant Thunder" (published by Gentosha) won the 156th Naoki 35th Prize. We won the 2017 Bookstore Grand Prize!
Onda Riku's "Bee and Distant Thunder" (Phantom Winter House) won the 156th Naoki Award. It also won the 2017 Bookstore Awards!
The film is based on the novel of the youth group of the same name by Riku Onda, set in a piano competition. The cast is Mayu Matsuoka, Momori Matsuzaka, Wynn Morisaki, Hiroshi Suzuka, and directed and written by Kei Ishikawa.
Set against the backdrop of the International Piano Competition, the film is based on the youth group portrait novel of the same name written by Lu Enda and released nationwide on October 4, 2019. Matsuoka Momo, Matsuzaka Momori, Morizaki, and Yoshi Suzuka starred, while Kei Ishikawa was the director and screenwriter.
Japanese cover (left), Chinese cover (right)
Japanese literature name: Bee and distant thunder (Mitsubachi to Enrai)
Chinese Title: Bees and Distant Thunder
Author: Uchida Lu
Genre: Youth Group Portrait Drama
Synopsis:
The Yoshigase International Piano Competition is held every three years. There is a jinx "The person who won here wins the world's highest S international piano competition", and in recent years, the appearance of a new talent who is the champion has become an event in the music world. Kazema Dust, a 16-year-old boy who travels around the country with his beekeeper father and does not have a piano at home. Eiden Ayaya, who has not been able to play the piano for a long time since the sudden death of her mother at the age of 13 while winning junior competitions in Japan and abroad as a genius girl and making her CD debut, is 20 years old. Akashi Takashima, a 28-year-old from Music College but now a salaryman working at an instrument store and a competition age limit. Masal C. Levi-Anatoll, 19, of the prestigious Juilliard School, is considered a winner with perfect playing skills and musicality. Who will win the first to third qualifying rounds and the finals?
The Fangjiang International Piano Competition is held once every three years. This competition has the legend that "the winner here can win in the world's most authoritative S international piano competition", but the appearance of any talented champion will become a major event in the music industry. There is no piano in the house and the 16-year-old boy who travels around the house with his father. A talented piano girl who has won major awards at home and abroad and has produced CDs, the 20-year-old Rong Chuanyaye, who has not played the piano for a long time after the sudden death of her 13-year-old mother. An office worker who graduated from the University of Music and now works in a musical instrument shop, Akashi Takashima, who is barely 28 years old, is still in the competition age. With perfect playing skills and musicality, marsal Carlos Revi Anatoll, a 19-year-old from the prestigious Juilliard School of Music, is regarded as a winning candidate. After 3 qualifiers, who will win the final?
Riku Onda's novel Bee and Distant Thunder won the 156th Naoki Sanju5 Prize and the 14th Bookstore Grand Prize in 2017. This is the first time in history that he has won the Naoki Prize and the Bookstore Grand Prize, and the second bookstore grand prize for the artist. He also won the Novel Category Grand Prize at the 5th Buklog Grand Prix.
Enda's novel Bee and Distant Thunder won both the 156th Naoki Prize and the 14th Bookstore Award in 2017 (Heisei 29), and is the first novel in history to win two literary awards and the writer's two bookstore awards twice. In addition, "Bee and Distant Thunder" also won the 5th Booklog Awards In the Novel Division.
Recommended for:
It is a fairly authentic music novel, but also an easy-to-read work that is also a youth story. If the impression of this novel is expressed in one word, it is "overwhelming realism". I'm sure I'm chasing the letters with my eyes, but before I know it, I'm caught up in the illusion of listening to the piano playing in the audience... It is completely taking off a hat to Riku Onda's expressive power.
"Bees and Distant Thunder" is a very professional musical novel, but also a youth group portrait novel, not an obscure work. If I were to describe the novel in one sentence, it would be an "overwhelming sense of presence." Originally, I was reading the text with my eyes, and unconsciously it was as if I was in the audience listening to the piano live. Entian Lu's text expression is extraordinary.
What is the dream, and what is the genius? What exactly is music for people? This is a novel written by the text magician Enda Lu, conceived for 12 years, based on 11 years, and written in 7 years. I hope that those who have read the book will find the direction of the future and those childhood dreams in this book.
Japanese readers praised: "It reminds me of my unfulfilled dreams, and I envy them who can go all out for their goals." Everyone has moments of weakness or want to give up, but if you have dreams you want to pursue, this book will push you! ”