Tetsuya NAKASHIMA 中島哲也
Happy-Go-Lucky
Nippon Cinema ª
Takashi has a lot to worry about. At school, he is a failure at gymnastics and the girl he’s interested in doesn’t meet all of his requirements. Moreover his family is comprised of losers and he doesn’t want to become one too. HAPPY-GO-LUCKY is a wonderful comedy about a boy and his problems with the real world.
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Happy-Go-Lucky (NC 2004)
Japan 1997
73 minutes
Production
FAT
Distribution
Japanisches Kulturinstitut (The Japan Foundation)
Cast
Yoshitomo HITAKA, Noriko NAGI, Kishibe ITTOKU, Kumi NAKAMURA, Maki ISHIKAWA
About Tetsuya NAKASHIMA
中島哲也
Tetsuya NAKASHIMA was born in Fukuoka in 1959. In 2005, he was awarded as Best Director at the Yokohama Film Festival for KAMIKAZE GIRLS (2004 / NC ’05). His film CONFESSIONS was Japan’s entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2011 Academy Awards. In addition to KAMIKAZE GIRLS, Nippon Connection showed his films HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (1997 / NC ’04) and THE WORLD OF KANAKO (2014 / NC ’15 and NC ’20).