Running time 127 min. Initial release 21 August 2005 Screenplay Jêmusu Miki | Language Japanese Director Takao Kinoshita | |
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Starring Tatsuya YamaguchiRie Tomosaka Release date 21 August 2005 (2005-08-21) 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.