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Ue o Muite Aruko: Sakamoto Kyu Monogatari

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Language
  
Japanese

Duration
  

Ue o Muite Aruko: Sakamoto Kyu Monogatari movie poster
Release date
  
21 August 2005 (2005-08-21)

Writer
  
Yukiko Kashiwagi (story), Jemusu Miki (teleplay), Shomei Sakamito (story)

Ue o Muite Aruko: Sakamoto Kyu Monogatari/Walking while Looking Up - The Kyu Sakamoto Story () is a biography based on the Japanese singer Kyu Sakamotos life. The movie was first broadcast on TV Tokyo on August 21, 2005 as a commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Sakamotos death.

Contents

Plot summary

Ue o Muite Aruko: Sakamoto Kyu Monogatari movie scenes Benjamin travelled to Japan where he fell under the spell of young crooner Kyu Sakamoto and his sweetly sentimental ballad Ue o Muite Aruk Walking

The movie follows Sakamotos 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 aruko") 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.

Cast

  • Tatsuya Yamaguchi - Kyu Sakamoto (Adult)
  • Watanabe Takuto - Kyu Sakamoto (Boy)
  • Rie Tomosaka - Yukiko Kashiwagi
  • Ikko Furuya - Yutaka Sakamoto (Kyus father)
  • Kumiko Okae - Iku Sakamoto (Kyus mother)
  • Akira Saito - Seri Oshima (Kyus grandmother)

    • References

    Ue o Muite Aruko: Sakamoto Kyu Monogatari Wikipedia
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    Ue o Muite Aruko: Sakamoto Kyu Monogatari IMDb