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Keep Your Chin Up
Keep Your Chin Up

Keep Your Chin Up

1962

6

Categories:

  • Drama

Overview:

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.

Toshio Masuda

Director

Cast:

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  • Kyū Sakamoto

    Kyū Sakamoto

    Kyô Kawanishi
  • Mitsuo Hamada

    Mitsuo Hamada

    Ryôji Tomoda
  • Sayuri Yoshinaga

    Sayuri Yoshinaga

    Noriko Nagai
  • Tomoko Watanabe

    Tomoko Watanabe

    Mitsuko Nagai
  • Daizaburo Hirata

    Daizaburo Hirata

    Wakabayashi
  • Masao Shimizu

    Masao Shimizu

    Shôichirô