To Walk Beside You (君と歩こう) 14 years old

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.

Credits

Tomoya Maeno as

Ayako Yoshitani as

Toshiki Fujikawa as

Ryu Morioka as

Sachiko Katsumata as

Maki Meguro as

To Walk Beside You Cast

Name	Character
Tomoya Maeno He was 23, now 38 years old
Ayako Yoshitani She was 18, now 32 years old
Toshiki Fujikawa
Ryu Morioka
Sachiko Katsumata She was 28, now 42 years old
Maki Meguro She was 37, now 51 years old
Hiroshi Sakuma He was 25, now 39 years old
Shunta Watanabe He was 12, now 27 years old

To Walk Beside You Crew

Name	Department
Motoo Kawabata as Producer. He was 53 (now 68) years old	Production
Yuya Ishii as Director. He was 28 (now 42) years old	Directing
Yuya Ishii as Editor. He was 28 (now 42) years old	Editing
Yuya Ishii as Screenplay. He was 28 (now 42) years old	Writing
Samon Imamura as Original Music Composer.	Sound
Fûta Takagi as Cinematography.	Crew

To Walk Beside You (14 years)

Release day: Sunday, October 18, 2009
Runtime: 90 minutes