To Walk Beside You

Overview

A 17-year-old country boy named Norio decides his only option is to follow his late parents’ example and commit suicide. After failing even at that, his 34-year-old English teacher Akemi convinces him that he should instead move to Tokyo with her and become a lawyer on her dime. Unfortunately, Akemi doesn’t have quite as much money as she leads Norio to believe, and has to secretly get a job at a karaoke bar under the guise of “going to the salon”. Meanwhile, she continuously prods her somewhat dimwitted student to work harder toward her manufactured goal of him becoming a lawyer. Although Norio is falling in love with Akemi, he’s not all that interested in studying, and matters only get worse when he discovers his benefactor’s secret source of income.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

October 18, 2009

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Cast

Maki Meguro,Shunta Watanabe,Mukau Nakamura,Toshiki Fujikawa,Kanehiro Ri,Ryu Morioka,Ayako Yoshitani,Tomoya Maeno,Sachiko Katsumata

Director

Yuya Ishii

Writer

Yuya Ishii

Producer

Motoo Kawabata

Music

Samon Imamura

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt1532350