Film

Happy Ending

2022 · 1h 53m · Fantasy · Drama

Kirihara's life was full of lies and loneliness. He was a picture book writer with a brilliant past that his first book hit a bestseller, but one day allegations of plagiarism of his first book emerged. The truth of the case was about to be revealed by a reporter who relentlessly chased after him. Around that time, he reunited with his mother, who had abandoned himself at an early age, but she was hospitalized unconscious. Despaired by his life, Kirihara jumps off the roof of the building and tries to commit suicide without improving his divorced relationship with his wife and son. A girl appears there to help him. The moment he thought "Who?!", Kirihara became the girl! Kirihara, who became the girl, witnesses him falling. Immediately after that, something even more mysterious happens. The time was back five days ago. This is how the mysterious five days of "Two Kirihara", a girl and a picture book writer, begins...

Hideyuki Inoue

Kaoru Kirihara

Kana Shimizu

The girl

Tsuneyoshi Sasaki

Tatsuya Isino

Rie Saiki

Chiaki Ishino

Yukimi Sôma

Nachan

Yumi Kashihara

Kirihara's mother (recollection period)

Ryusei Matsuo

Kirihara (recollection period)

Sadayuki Ueda

Chief editor

Kengo Showa

Mikawa Nippo Reporter

Toshihiro Wakita

Senior reporter

Takanari Murakami

Doctor

Fumiyasu Takeyama

Satomi

Hiroshi Kondo

Picture book class instructor

Kan Ozawa

Kirihara's uncle

Ken Kurahashi

City hall official

Amu Ikeno

Friend of Picture Book Classes

• Akira IwamatsuDirector · Producer
• Masato ShimizuWriter · Producer
• Yoshiro ImaiDirector of Photography

Release date

November 1, 2022

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 53m

Genres

Fantasy, Drama