Happy-Go-Lucky (1997)
Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover around a horizontal bar. Their gym teacher warns them: they have one week to succeed; if they resign now, then, tomorrow, facing life difficulties, they will always run away and become bums.
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
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Hidaka Yoshitomo as Takashi |
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Nagi Noriko as Junko |
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Ittoku Kishibe as Atsuo |
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Hiroko Taguchi as Tomoko |
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Chigusa Shimamura as Natsuko |
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Maki Ishikawa as Hiroko |
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Ayumi Ito as High School Girl |
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Kumi Nakamura as Junko's Mother |
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Rina Komuro as Kazumi |
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Fumiya Ôgane as Toru |
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Hironobu Mori as Shigeru |
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Airin Aoki as Kiyomi Yasuno |
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Masayuki Itô as Teacher Kimura |
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Toshikazu Suzuki as Class Representative |
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Chiharu Kamiko as Delinquent High School Girl |
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Ikuko Kinoshita as Delinquent High School Girl |
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Noriko Aota as Dream Woman |
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Jinpachi Nezu as Man in TV Drama |
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Eri Ishida as Man's Wife in TV Drama |
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Kimiko Yo as Man's Lover in TV Drama |
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Kaori Fujii as Man's Lover in TV Drama |
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Tatsuya Irie as Soldier |
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Yuki Shiozawa as Soldier |
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Kyōhei Tanaka as Young Atsuo |
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Ayako Yoshizoe as Atsuo's Mother |
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Mikiko Asuke as Naomi |
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Satomi Hanamura as Hitomi |
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Kichizô Gomi as Principal |
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Kaori Hosomi as Junko's Friend |
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Saori Ogura as Junko's Friend |
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Yukari Kishimoto as Female Teacher |
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Mami Kawabe as Young Junko |
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Yuka Ida as Young Hiroko |
| Directing | Tetsuya Nakashima | Director |
| Writing | Tetsuya Nakashima | Writer |
| Sound | Yoko Kanno | Music |
| Production | Haruo Takarada | Producer |
| Camera | Shôichi Atô | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Yoko Kanno | Original Music Composer |