Happiness Avenue

(1986)

★ 5.3 IMDb · 8 votes

Year: 1986

Runtime: 112 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 平野勝之

Cast: Masahiro Sugiyama, 園子温, Yoko Harada, Yutaka Suzuki, Inagaki Hiroyuki

Plot

When Otomo Katsuhiro saw his manga Good Weather credited as the “original novel” he burst out laughing. There’s not an iota of his book anywhere in the film. Made in the same year as Sono Sion’s A Man’s Flower Road, Hirano Katsuyuki’s Happiness Avenue (where Sono plays a role) is madder and more abandoned, in both filmmaking and content. Lovelorn Masahiro goes on an odyssey to find fulfilment of his heart’s desire, and the sea he traverses are Tokyo’s open sewages.