Ue o Muite Aruko: Sakamoto Kyu Monogatari
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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.
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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.
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Ue o Muite Aruko: Sakamoto Kyu Monogatari WikipediaUe o Muite Aruko: Sakamoto Kyu Monogatari IMDb