Ue o Muite Arukō: Sakamoto Kyu Monogatari

Ue o Muite Arukō: Sakamoto Kyu Monogatari
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Screenplay by	Nobuo Yamada
Starring	Tatsuya Yamaguchi Rie Tomosaka
Original language	Japanese
Production
Running time	127 min.
Original release
Network	TV Tokyo
Release	21 August 2005 (2005-08-21)

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.

Plot summary

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 Air Lines 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 Saitō - Seri Oshima (Kyus grandmother)

See also

• Kyu Sakamoto
• Yukiko Kashiwagi
• Hanako Oshima

External links

• Ue o Muite Arukō: Sakamoto Kyu Monogatari at IMDb