Happy Ending (2022)
Kirihara's life was full of lies and loneliness. He was a picture book writer with a brilliant past that his first book hit a bestseller, but one day allegations of plagiarism of his first book emerged. The truth of the case was about to be revealed by a reporter who relentlessly chased after him. Around that time, he reunited with his mother, who had abandoned himself at an early age, but she was hospitalized unconscious. Despaired by his life, Kirihara jumps off the roof of the building and tries to commit suicide without improving his divorced relationship with his wife and son. A girl appears there to help him. The moment he thought "Who?!", Kirihara became the girl! Kirihara, who became the girl, witnesses him falling. Immediately after that, something even more mysterious happens. The time was back five days ago. This is how the mysterious five days of "Two Kirihara", a girl and a picture book writer, begins...
Director: Akira Iwamatsu
![]() |
Hideyuki Inoue as Kaoru Kirihara |
![]() |
Kana Shimizu as The girl |
![]() |
Tsuneyoshi Sasaki as Tatsuya Isino |
![]() |
Rie Saiki as Chiaki Ishino |
![]() |
Yukimi Sôma as Nachan |
![]() |
Yumi Kashihara as Kirihara's mother (recollection period) |
![]() |
Ryusei Matsuo as Kirihara (recollection period) |
![]() |
Sadayuki Ueda as Chief editor |
![]() |
Kengo Showa as Mikawa Nippo Reporter |
![]() |
Toshihiro Wakita as Senior reporter |
![]() |
Takanari Murakami as Doctor |
![]() |
Fumiyasu Takeyama as Satomi |
![]() |
Hiroshi Kondo as Picture book class instructor |
![]() |
Kan Ozawa as Kirihara's uncle |
![]() |
Ken Kurahashi as City hall official |
![]() |
Amu Ikeno as Friend of Picture Book Classes |
![]() |
Kaisyun Sugiyama as Friend of Picture Book Classes |
![]() |
Makoto Naito as Friend of Picture Book Classes |
![]() |
Kentaro Sugiyama as Friend of Picture Book Classes |
![]() |
Lenshi Fukuyama as Senior detective |
![]() |
Shinya Morita as Novice detective |
![]() |
Yuka Sakamoto as RN |
![]() |
Yukie Naruse as Expert nurse |
![]() |
Makiko Shibata as Kirihara's mother |
![]() |
Yoshio Ando as Editor |
![]() |
Kazuma as Editor |
![]() |
Takahiro Ishida as |
| Directing | Akira Iwamatsu | Director |
| Writing | Masato Shimizu | Writer |
| Camera | Yoshiro Imai | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Takashi Masaki | Production Sound Mixer |
| Lighting | Yoshinori Furukawa | Gaffer |
| Sound | Mike Matsunuma | Music |
| Production | Akira Iwamatsu | Producer |
| Production | Masato Shimizu | Producer |