Film

To Walk Beside You

2009 · 1h 30m · Drama

IMDb

6.0

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.

Maki Meguro

Akemi Tanaka

Ryu Morioka

Norio Saeki

Ayako Yoshitani

Megumi Ichinose

Shunta Watanabe

Yasutaro

Sachiko Katsumata

Yasuyo

Mukau Nakamura

Yasutaka

Tomoya Maeno

Taketomo

Toshiki Fujikawa

Kanehiro Ri

• Yuya IshiiScreenplay · Director · Editor
• Motoo KawabataProducer
• Samon ImamuraOriginal Music Composer

Release date

October 18, 2009

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Drama