Silent Love (2024 film)

Silent Love (サイレントラブ, Sairento Rabu) is a 2024 Japanese film directed by Eiji Uchida [ja].

The film stars Ryosuke Yamada and Minami Hamabe as a mute man and blind woman who grow close despite their disparate backgrounds.

Aoi encounters Mika again as she visits an old lecture hall to practice, helping her to access it, and she thinks him to be another piano student.

After undergoing eye surgery and feeling less numbness in her arms, Mika is determined to continue her pursuit of becoming a pianist.

Yuma is a man of upper-class upbringing that idly plays the piano and is deep in gambling debt at a casino.

At an abandoned warehouse, a gangster who hates the wealthy stabs Yuma in the hand so he can no longer play the piano.

[1] Mark Schilling of The Japan Times called Silent Love "antiquated and artificial, devolving into cliched action".