Keep Your Chin Up (上を向いて歩こう) 62 years old

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.

Credits

Keep Your Chin Up Cast

Name Character
Mitsuo Hamada He was 18, now 81 years old as Ryôji Tomoda
Sayuri Yoshinaga She was 16, now 79 years old as Noriko Nagai
Masao Shimizu He was 53, 67 years old when he died as Shôichirô
Shinsuke Ashida He was 47, 84 years old when he died as Tokuzô Nagai
Hideki Takahashi He was 37, now 24 years old as Takeshi Matsumoto
Yasukiyo Umeno He was 28, now 91 years old as Jessie Maki
Daizaburo Hirata as Wakabayashi

Keep Your Chin Up Crew

Name Department
Toshio Masuda as Director. He was 34 (now 97) years old Directing
Nobuo Yamada as Screenplay. He was 29 (65) years old when He died Writing
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Keep Your Chin Up (62 years)

  • Release day: Sunday, March 04, 1962
  • Runtime: 92 minutes