Happy Hour: Directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. With Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara, Rira Kawamura. A slow-burning epic chronicling the emotional journey of four thirty something women in the misty seaside city of Kobe.

Happy Hour (ハッピーアワー, Happī Awā) is a 2015 Japanese drama film directed by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi. The film follows the lives and loves of four middle-class, thirty-seven-year-old women who are friends and who live in Kobe: unemployed Jun, housewife Sakurako, divorced nurse Akari, and married arts administrator Fumi.

Happy Hour: Directed by Mike Bencivenga. With Anthony LaPaglia, Eric Stoltz, Caroleen Feeney, Robert Vaughn. Tulley, a once-promising literary star now biding his time as an advertising copy editor, moves from cynicism to acceptance as he secretly hopes to write a great novel only to learn that his life of booze will end all too soon.

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 …

HAPPY HOUR—which earned deserved accolades upon release, including a shared Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival for its stars Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara, and Rira Kawamura—introduced international audiences to Hamaguchi’s deliberate, unhurried, and precisely observed style.

2016年8月24日 · Happy Hour, a work of distinctly modern cinema, reaches deep into the classic traditions of melodrama—along with its coincidences and its violent contrasts—to revive a latent power for grand-scale observation through painfully close contact with the agonizing intimacies of contemporary life.