Always Smiling Above the Sea (2009)
海の上の君は、いつも笑顔。
17-year-old high school student and basketball player Migiwa has a secret crush on Riku. After lying about being able to surf, she loses a surfboard while practicing and sets off by bike along the Shonan coast to find it, meeting new people and growing along the way.
- Date of release
- 2009-05-09
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy, Romance
- Director
- Ichiro Kita
Casting
- Mitsuki Tanimura — Migiwa Naruse
- Dori Sakurada — Riku Kobayakawa
- Haruna Amari — Minami Kobayashi
- Mika Asamiya — Haruko Sugita
- Hikaru Yamamoto — Natsuko
- Takashi Nagayama — Satoshi Yamanaga
- Yûko Itô — Misako Kobayashi
- Taro Yamamoto — Yoichi Chigasaki
- Kanji Tsuda — Omawari-san
- Ren Osugi — Shujin
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