Tokyo Sonata scene depicts Kenji performing "Clair de Lune" from the Suite bergamasque at his audition with Megumi, Ryūhei, and his piano teacher watching. His performance is flawless. Peter Bradshaw of "The Guardian" gave the film 4 out of 5 stars, while Nick Schager of "Slant Magazine" gave it 3 out of 4 stars. Christopher Bourne of "Meniscus Magazine" said, "Kurosawa's latest film, "Tokyo Sonata", is his best in quite a few years, a truly frightening work that achieves its effects without resorting to tired genre mechanics." He also wrote that "Debussy's 'Clair de Lune' may well have never been put to
Autour de la Lune and slow rate of change. The bulk of this work was originally commissioned and broadcast in September 2003 by Radio France Culture for a musical evocation of Jules Verne. As a book, "Autour de la Lune" (1870, "Around the Moon") was Jules Verne's sequel to his "De la Terre à la Lune" (1865, "From the Earth to the Moon"). The first one dealt with the Earth part of the story until the ship's launching, from the outside. "Autour de la Lune" dealt from the inside of the ship with the launching and the actual space travel to and around the