Our Happiness Alone

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.

Director

Noboru Nakamura

Screenplay

Noboru Nakamura

Music

Tōru Takemitsu

Status

Released

Release date

29/03/1964

Original language

Japanese