Our Happiness Alone (1964)
Original title: 二十一歳の父
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.
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Homare Suguro
Kei YamamotoMototsugu Sakawa
Chieko BaishoYoshiko Sakawa
Haruko WanibuchiKyoko Iwama
Kinuko Obata
Kōji TakahashiIchiro Sakawa
Shoichi Ozawa
Isao YamagataAkira Sakawa
Eijirō Tōno
Seiji MiyaguchiMovie DNA
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What is Our Happiness Alone about?
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.
How long is Our Happiness Alone?
Our Happiness Alone has a runtime of 96 minutes.