BECK

Fourteen-year-old Yukio Tanaka, nicknamed Koyuki, drifts through a dull middle-school life until he rescues a patched-together dog named Beck from some neighborhood kids. The dog belongs to Ryusuke Minami, a sixteen-year-old guitarist back from America, whose playing pulls Koyuki toward music and a guitar of his own. As Ryusuke assembles a band, Koyuki starts learning to play and sing from scratch, with no experience on a stage, drawn into the group's struggle to be heard and into his feelings for Ryusuke's younger sister Maho.