Documentary of AKB48 Show Must Go On

2012 Japanese film

Film poster

Japanese name

Kanji

DOCUMENTARY of AKB48 Show must go on 少女たちは傷つきながら、夢を見る

Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn	Documentary of AKB48 Show Must Go On: Shoujotachi wa Kizutsukinagara, Yume o Miru

Directed by

Eiki Takahashi

Produced by

Yoshihiro Furusawa
Kumiko Isono (Akimoto Yasushi Jimusho
Takumi Matsumura (AKS)
Akihiro Makino (AKS)
Kaori Kishibe)

Starring

AKB48
SKE48
NMB48
HKT48
SDN48
JKT48

Narrated by

Mamiko Noto

Cinematography

Taku Murakami

Edited by

Junichi Ito

Music by

Hiroto Otsubo

Production
company

Toho

Distributed by

Toho Co. Ltd

Release date

January 27, 2012 (2012-01-27)

Running time

115 minutes

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

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

^ "【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.
^ "『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.