''Riding Uphill'' (
Japanese
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title ''Gachi Boshi'' ガチ★星) is a 2018 "local drama"
Japanese film
The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2021, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that ea ...
created by
Nishi-Nihon Television. Directed by
Kan Eguchi and starring Kenichi Abe, it shows the life of a downtrodden man who turns to
competitive cycling to succeed.
Overview
This is the second film in Nishi
Nihon Television
JOAX-DTV (channel 4), branded as , is the flagship station of the Nippon News Network and the Nippon Television Network System, owned-and-operated by the which is a subsidiary of the certified broadcasting holding company , itself a listed su ...
's "local drama" genre (which is designed to bring a spotlight to more local areas of the country and different walks of life in each said area). The first was the 2013
television drama
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super- ...
''Mentai Piriri'' (めんたいぴりり), also directed by Kan Eguchi. ''Mentai Pririri'' showed the life of a struggling actor living in the
Fukuoka Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Fukuoka Prefecture has a population of 5,109,323 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,986 Square kilometre, km2 (1,925 sq mi). Fukuoka Prefecture borders S ...
area. ''Riding Uphill'', too, focuses on the Fukuoka Prefecture lifestyle, and much of the promotional materials and events take place there.
After the success of the 2016 television drama, the footage was re-edited into a 90-minute feature film, which is set to be released in May 2018 by the distribution company Magnetize.
Cast
* Koji Hamashima - Kenichi Abe
* Hisamatsu Takaaki - Fukuyama Shota
* Hamashima Yao - Hayashi Mari
* Uesugi Akira - Funasaki Ryo
* Iwashita Yoichiro - Morisaki Kengo
* Irie Kensuke - Ito Koichi
* Fukuda Kenji - Yoshizawa Shogo
* Yayama Shusaku - Nishihara Seigo
* Ramen patron - Hakata Hanamaru
* Konoshita Kazuhide - Moro Morooka
* Matsunaga Mami - Furusaki Hitomi
* Hamashima Kenta - Kimura Sei
Summary
The story takes place a
Kokura Cycling Stadium in
Kita-Kyushu.
References
External links
*
Official Website(Japanese)
Magnetize distribution website
''Content in this edit is translated from the existing Japanese Wikipedia article at
jp:ガチ★星; see its history for attribution.
Cycling films
Japanese sports drama films
Films set in Kitakyushu
2010s sports drama films
2018 films
2018 drama films
2010s Japanese films
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