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Ue o Muite Aruk: Sakamoto Kyu Monogatari
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Wikipedia article
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 aruk") 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 Sait - Seri Oshima (Kyus grandmother)
See also
*Kyu Sakamoto
*Yukiko Kashiwagi
*Hanako Oshima
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