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    Hisashi "Kyu" Sakamoto (Japanese: 坂本 九, Hepburn: Sakamoto Hisashi or Sakamoto Kyū, 10 December 1941 – 12 August 1985), legally registered as Hisashi Ōshima...
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  • Sukiyaki (song) (category Kyu Sakamoto songs)
    Walk"), alternatively titled "Sukiyaki", is a song by Japanese crooner Kyu Sakamoto, first released in Japan in 1961. The song topped the charts in a number...
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  • (ひめゆりの塔) 1997, Egao no okurimono- Sakamoto Kyū shashinshū (笑顔の贈り物―坂本九写真集/The gift of a smiling face – Kyu Sakamoto photograph collection) Kawai, Hiroshi...
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  • footballer Koki Sakamoto (坂本 功貴, born 1986), gymnast Kyu Sakamoto (1941–1985), pop singer well known for his song Sukiyaki in the 1960s Maaya Sakamoto (born 1980)...
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    ) (1986) Roku, hachi, kyū no kyū : Sakamoto Kyū Monogatari (六・八・九の九 : 坂本九ものがたり, Six, eight, nine of nine : Kyū Sakamoto story) (1987) Mumei-jin mei-goroku...
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  • Kyu Sakamoto Memorial Hall (坂本九思い出記念館) is a museum in the town Kuriyama, Hokkaido. The Memorial Hall was built in 1993 and is completely dependent on visitor...
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  • Nakamura later wrote many songs for various Japanese singers such as Kyu Sakamoto, enka singer Saburō Kitajima, and Johnny & Associates' first group Johnnys...
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  • Kyu Sakamoto Memorial Best is an album by Kyu Sakamoto released in 2005 by EMI in the UK. The songs are the best known of Sakamoto's career. Miagete goran...
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  • "Tomodachi", a song by Kyu Sakamoto, appearing on the compilation album Kyu Sakamoto Memorial Best "Tomodachi", a song by Maaya Sakamoto released with the...
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  • Sakamoto Kyu Monogatari/Walking while Looking Up - The Kyu Sakamoto Story (上を向いて歩こう-坂本九物語) is a biography based on the Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto's...
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    Kome Club (米米CLUB) (5) Kumi Koda (倖田 來未) (8) Kyōko Koizumi (小泉 今日子) (5) Kyū Sakamoto (坂本 九) (11) L'Arc-en-Ciel (5) Linda Yamamoto (山本 リンダ) (5) Masaaki Sakai...
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  • Sukiyaki and Other Japanese Hits (category Kyu Sakamoto albums)
    Sukiyaki and Other Japanese Hits is an album by Kyu Sakamoto released in 1963 in the U.S. by Capitol Records. All of the songs on the album are sung in...
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  • 24, 1947) is a Japanese actress and was the wife of Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto from 1971 until his death in the August 1985 Japan Air Lines Flight 123...
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  • 2008-11-20. 九ちゃんの歌 [Kyu-chan's songs] (in Japanese). EMI Music Japan. Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2009-01-05. "Kyu Sakamoto". nippop.com...
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    Romantics, The Chiffons, Little Peggy March, Jimmy Soul, Lesley Gore, Kyu Sakamoto, The Essex, Jan & Dean, The Tymes, Stevie Wonder (as ‘Little Stevie Wonder’)...
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  • Ashita ga Arusa (category Kyu Sakamoto songs)
    tomorrow") is a Japanese song that was performed by Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto, with music by Hachidai Nakamura and lyrics by Yukio Aoshima.[citation...
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  • while singing. Famous kayōkyoku artists include Hiroko Yakushimaru, Kyu Sakamoto, the Peanuts, the Tigers, Candies, Pink Lady, Seiko Matsuda, Junko Sakurada...
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  • Jonny Greenwood, along with music by Can, the Marketts, Minnie Riperton, Kyu Sakamoto, Neil Young, Les Baxter and Chuck Jackson. "Spooks" was released as a...
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  • artists to do so and the first by any artists of East Asian origin since Kyu Sakamoto's 1963 single "Sukiyaki". Outside of the United States, "Like a G6" topped...
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  • Rose, Rose, I Love You (category Kyu Sakamoto songs)
    music charts on May 5, 1951 and peaked at number 16. The Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto covered the original Mandarin versions in the 1960s. Gordon Jenkins released...
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    Maaya Sakamoto (坂本 真綾, Sakamoto Maaya, born March 31, 1980) is a Japanese actress and singer. She made her debut as a voice actress in 1992 as the voice...
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  • Miagete Goran Yoru no Hoshi o (category Kyu Sakamoto songs)
    stars in the night") is a 1963 hit song performed by a Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto. It was written by lyricist Rokusuke Ei and composer Taku Izumi. Izumi...
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  • became the second song by a Japanese artist to reach the top 10 after Kyu Sakamoto's "Sukiyaki" in 1963. It also marked the first debut of an Asian soloist...
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  • Travels by Jonathan Swift Produced by Hiroshi Ogawa Akira Onozaki Starring Kyū Sakamoto Chiyoko Honma Masao Imanishi Seiji Miyaguchi Akira Oizumi Shôichi Ozawa...
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  • He was married to the author Izumi Suzuki, and was a cousin to singer Kyu Sakamoto. He was portrayed in Kōji Wakamatsu's film Endless Waltz by novelist...
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  • Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, included a cover version of Kyu Sakamoto's 1960s hit "Sukiyaki". The group's version of "Sukiyaki" peaked at No...
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  • Some of the Japanese pop songs from the 1960s are used including, Kyu Sakamoto's "Sukiyaki" and Carmen Maki's "Tokiniwa Haha No Naiko No Youni". Some...
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  • 1960s, rockabilly influenced by Elvis Presley began to gain popularity. Kyu Sakamoto, who came from Japanese rockabilly, joined Japanese popular music. However...
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  • "Principles of Lust" by Enigma "Twiggy Twiggy" by Pizzicato Five "Sukiyaki" by Kyu Sakamoto "Zendeko Hachijo" by Zenshuji Zendeko "Smack My Bitch Up" by The Prodigy...
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    Sangoro Yūko Mochizuki as Sangoro's mother Takeshi Sakamoto as Sangoro's father Akira Hattori as Chokichi Kyū Sazanka as Tatsugoro, Chokichi's father Matsumoto...
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