Documentary of AKB48 Show Must Go On

Documentary of AKB48 Show Must Go On
Film poster
Japanese name
KanjiDOCUMENTARY of AKB48 Show must go on 少女たちは傷つきながら、夢を見る
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnDocumentary of AKB48 Show Must Go On: Shoujotachi wa Kizutsukinagara, Yume o Miru
Directed byEiki Takahashi
Produced by
  • Yoshihiro Furusawa
  • Kumiko Isono (Akimoto Yasushi Jimusho
  • Takumi Matsumura (AKS)
  • Akihiro Makino (AKS)
  • Kaori Kishibe)
Starring
Narrated byMamiko Noto
CinematographyTaku Murakami
Edited byJunichi Ito
Music byHiroto Otsubo
Production
company
Distributed byToho Co. Ltd
Release date
  • January 27, 2012 (2012-01-27)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Documentary of AKB48 Show Must Go On (DOCUMENTARY of AKB48 Show must go on 少女たちは傷つきながら、夢を見る, Documentary of AKB48 Show Must Go On: Shoujotachi wa Kizutsukinagara, Yume o Miru) is a Japanese production documentary film about Japanese idol AKB48 released January 27, 2012. The film is the second documentary about AKB48, the continuation of the first document "Documentary of AKB48 To Be Continued".

As with the first film, the film contains AKB48's career documentation for a year throughout 2011, along with interviews with members. Contents ranging from AKB48 2011 election, AKB48 2011 rock-cutting tournament, Dareka no Tame ni: What Can I Do for Someone? Project, to the atmosphere behind the three-day concert stage at Seibu Dome, 22–24 July 2011.

The film was directed by Eiki Takahashi who handled AKB48's music video, from the beginning of their debut, "Keibetsu Shiteita Aijō" (2007) to "Ue kara Mariko" (2011).[1] The theme song of this movie is "First Rabbit".

This documentary film became a best-selling film in Japan. On the weekly ranking of the best-selling film Kogyo Tsushinsha January 30, 2012, the film went straight in the 7th.[2]

References

  1. ^ "【インタビュー】高橋栄樹監督「AKB48を尊敬していただく」-ドキュメンタリー映画第2弾". My Navi. 2012-01-22. Retrieved 2012-08-28.
  2. ^ "『ALWAYS』がV2で10億円！『ミッション:インポッシブル』は50億円突破!! AKBドキュメンタリーは7位初登場!!【映画週末興行成績". Cinema Today. 2012-02-01. Retrieved 2012-08-28.


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