To Walk Beside You

To Walk Beside You (2009)

Drama

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.

Director: Yuya Ishii
Writer: Yuya Ishii

Casts

	Maki Meguro as Akemi Tanaka
	Ryu Morioka as Norio Saeki
	Ayako Yoshitani as Megumi Ichinose
	Shunta Watanabe as Yasutaro
	Sachiko Katsumata as Yasuyo
	Mukau Nakamura as Yasutaka
	Tomoya Maeno as Taketomo
	Toshiki Fujikawa as
	Kanehiro Ri as

Crew