Running time 127 min. Initial release 21 August 2005 Screenplay Jêmusu Miki | Language Japanese Director Takao Kinoshita | |
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Starring Tatsuya Yamaguchi
Rie Tomosaka Release date 21 August 2005 (2005-08-21) Story by Yukiko Kashiwagi, Shômei Sakamito Producers Shinji Okabe, Osamu Ogawa, Shunji Okamoto Cast Tatsuya Yamaguchi, Yukiko Maisaka, Rie Tomosaka, Ikko Furuya, Kumiko Okae Similar Kyu‑chan no Dekkai Yume, Kigeki Ekimae danchi, Seniors - Juniors - Co‑Workers, Gulliver's Travels Beyond t, Happiness of Us Alone | ||
Sukiyaki ue o muite arukou kyu sakamoto english translation and lyrics
Ue o Muite Arukō: 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 on August 21, 2005 as a commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Sakamoto's death.
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The movie follows Sakamoto'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" (J: "Ue o muite arukō") 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 Kashiwagi as well as his time in the Japanese band Paradise King.