Movie
Happy Hour
Overview
Four women in their thirties reevaluate their relationships, both shared and private, after a startling revelation concerning one's marriage forces each of them to ask one of life's biggest questions: "Am I who I want to be?"
Details
- Release date
- 2015-12-12
- Runtime
- 317 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Kobe Workshop Cinema Project LLP, Fictive, Neopa
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Sachie Tanaka as Akari
- Hazuki Kikuchi as Sakurako
- Maiko Mihara as Fumi
- Rira Kawamura as Jun
- Yoshio Shin as Yoshihiko
- Hiroyuki Miura as Takuya
- Yoshitaka Zahana as Kohei
- Shuhei Shibata as Ukai
- Hiromi Demura as Hinako
- Hajime Sakasho as Kazama
- Tsugumi Kugai as Yoshie
- Yasunobu Tanabe as Kurita
Crew
- Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Director
- Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Writer
- Tadashi Nohara - Writer
- Tomoyuki Takahashi - Writer
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