Happiness Avenue

Happiness Avenue

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1986

Runtime

1h 52m

Original Title

愛の街角2丁目3番地

Director

Katsuyuki Hirano

Description

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.