Keep Your Chin Up

Keep Your Chin Up

92 mins | Drama | March 4, 1962

Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji hear the sirens shrieking behind them and panic. Kyu pretends he has been hit by a small truck and Ryoji demands that they be taken to a hospital, little dreaming that Nagai, the driver, is the official guardian of juveniles. The next morning the two boys hear a light knock, and Nagai's daughter, Noriko enters, but surprise is changed to fear as they see her father approaching with Kume, the Juvenile Officer. Their one thought is escape but Kyu discovers his leg is stiff and it pains him to move. In the excitement, he had not realized he had really been hit by the truck. He sends Ryoji away while he waits alone for Officer Kume. Nagai takes Kyu under his wing, while Ryoji finds himself again in the hard-boiled world.

Keep Your Chin Up

92 mins | Drama | March 4, 1962

Keep Your Chin Up
Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji hear the sirens shrieking behind them and panic. Kyu pretends he has been hit by a small truck and Ryoji demands that they be taken to a hospital, little dreaming that Nagai, the driver, is the official guardian of juveniles. The next morning the two boys hear a light knock, and Nagai's daughter, Noriko enters, but surprise is changed to fear as they see her father approaching with Kume, the Juvenile Officer. Their one thought is escape but Kyu discovers his leg is stiff and it pains him to move. In the excitement, he had not realized he had really been hit by the truck. He sends Ryoji away while he waits alone for Officer Kume. Nagai takes Kyu under his wing, while Ryoji finds himself again in the hard-boiled world.
Producers Nikkatsu Corporation
Original title 上を向いて歩こう
Directors Toshio Masuda
Writers Nobuo Yamada

Cast

Kyû Sakamoto

as Kyô Kawanishi

Mitsuo Hamada

as Ryôji Tomoda

Sayuri Yoshinaga

as Noriko Nagai

Tomoko Watanabe

as Mitsuko Nagai

Daizaburo Hirata

as Wakabayashi

Masao Shimizu

as Shôichirô

Yasukiyo Umeno

as Jessie Maki

Shinsuke Ashida

as Tokuzô Nagai

Hideki Takahashi

as Takeshi Matsumoto