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Have a Song on Your Lips is a 2015 Japanese film directed by Takahiro Miki and based on a novel of the same title by Eiichi Nakata published in 2011. The original novel is inspired by a television documentary "Greetings to a 15 year old - Students on the island who walked with songs", which depicts the interaction between Angela Aki and junior high school students on Wakamatsu Island in the Goto Islands of Nagasaki Prefecture. The novel has been adapted into a novel for children as well as a manga of the same title. The film was released on February 28, 2015.