Ue wo Muite Arukou~Sakamoto Kyu Monogatari
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| Ue wo Muite Arukou | |
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| Starring | Tatsuya Yamaguchi, Tomosaka Rie, Ikko Furuya, Kumiko Okae, Saitou Akira |
| Release date(s) | 2005 August 21 |
| Running time | 127 min. |
| Language | Japanese |
Ue wo Muite Arukou-Sakamoto Kyu Monogatari/Walking while Looking Up - The Kyu Sakamoto Story (上を向いて歩こう-坂本九物語), is a biography based on the Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto´s life. The movie was first broadcast on TV Tokyo August 21, 2005 as a commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Sakamoto's death.
[edit] Plot summary
The movie follows Kyu's life from being 3 years old to a teenager and finally a family father. The plot focuses on many well known things about his life such as the background of the popular song Sukiyaki (Ue wo muite arukou) and his death in the Japan Airlines Flight 123 plane crash in 1985. It also brings up some more obscure aspects such as surviving a car accident, how he met his wife Yukiko Kasiwagi as well as his time in the Japanese band Paradise King.
[edit] Casting
- Kyu Sakamoto - Watanabe Takuto (Boy) Tatsuya Yamaguchi (Adult)
- Yukiko Kashiwagi - Tomosaka Rie
- Hiroshi Sakamoto (Kyus father) - Ikko Furuya
- Iku Sakamoto (Kyus mother) - Kumiko Okae
- Seri Oshima (Kyus grandmother) - Youko Minamida
