Happiness Avenue

Happiness Avenue (1986)

When Otomo Katsuhiro saw his manga Good Weather credited as the “original novel” he burst out laughing. There’s not an iota of his book anywhere in the film. Made in the same year as Sono Sion’s A Man’s Flower Road, Hirano Katsuyuki’s Happiness Avenue (where Sono plays a role) is madder and more abandoned, in both filmmaking and content. Lovelorn Masahiro goes on an odyssey to find fulfilment of his heart’s desire, and the sea he traverses are Tokyo’s open sewages.

Director: Katsuyuki Hirano

Casts

	Masahiro Sugiyama as
	Sion Sono as
	Yoko Harada as
	Yutaka Suzuki as
	Inagaki Hiroyuki as

Crew