Film

Our Happiness Alone

1964 · 1h 36m

Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder brother, Ichiro, works at the Bank of Japan whose wife, Masuko, is from a very high-class family. Mototsugu becomes disgusted with such strait-laced living and leaves home to marry Yoshiko, a blind masseuse, and they live in a small apartment near a pinball parlor where he works.

Homare Suguro

Kei Yamamoto

Mototsugu Sakawa

Chieko Baisho

Yoshiko Sakawa

Haruko Wanibuchi

Kyoko Iwama

Kinuko Obata

Kōji Takahashi

Ichiro Sakawa

Shoichi Ozawa

Isao Yamagata

Akira Sakawa

Eijirō Tōno

Seiji Miyaguchi

• Noboru NakamuraDirector · Screenplay
• Takeshi FukazawaExecutive Producer
• Tōichirō NarushimaDirector of Photography
• Toru TakemitsuOriginal Music Composer

Release date

March 29, 1964

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 36m