FAKE

Born to atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima Mamoru Samuragochi a selftaught classical composer with a degenerative condition causing deafness was celebrated as a Japanese Beethoven for the digital age However just prior to the 2014 Winter Olympics where Samuragochis Sonatina for Violin was to accompany figure skater Daisuke Takahashi parttime university lecturer Takashi Niigaki revealed that he had served as the composers ghostwriter for 18 years that Samuragochi couldnt notate music and in fact could hear perfectly As Samuragochis recordings were pulled and performances cancelled Niigaki enjoyed success on TV talk shows Filmmaker Tatsuya Mori finds Samuragochi in his small Yokohama apartment with his wife and cat ready to tell his side of the story A mesmerizing character study skewering media duplicity and constructions of abilitydisability in which Samuragochis career has collapsed taking fact and fiction with it