Keep Your Chin Up

1h 32min

Drama

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.

Cast

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
Yasukiyo Umeno

Yasukiyo Umeno

Jessie Maki
Shinsuke Ashida

Shinsuke Ashida

Tokuzô Nagai
Hideki Takahashi

Hideki Takahashi

Takeshi Matsumoto

Release date

4th Mar 1962

Status

Released

Spoken languages

日本語