Sing, Young People!

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

Cast

Tsutomu Matsukawa

as Yasuhiko Mori

Yūsuke Kawazu

as Shinichi Miyamoto

Shinichirō Mikami

as Ichinosuke Okada

Kei Yamamoto

as Hiroshi Hirao

Shima Iwashita

as Noriko Atsugi

Chieko Baisho

as Yuko Nakajima

Manami Fuji

as Toshiko Honjo

Chieko Higashiyama

as Okada's grandmother

Masao Mishima

as Professor Hirayama

Tomo'o Nagai

as Hirai

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