GONTITI's acoustic guitar work on the Still Walking soundtrack is so gentle it almost dissolves into the air. This is Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2008 family drama scored by Japan's beloved bossa nova guitar duo, and the whole thing is only nine tracks across sixteen minutes.
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"朝" (Morning) opens with these fingerpicked lines that feel like waking up in a house full of memories, and the title track "歩いても歩いても" carries a quiet melancholy through its bossa nova rhythm that never pushes too hard. Everything breathes.
The short runtime means every note counts, and nothing overstays. If you want music that sounds like sitting on a porch watching summer fade, this tiny soundtrack says more in sixteen minutes than most say in an hour.