Happy Go Lucky

Happy Go Lucky

73 mins | Drama | March 17, 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. Furthermore, all five must succeed, if one of them cannot do it, then all of them fail. Takashi is really worried and wonders if he won’t be always the loser who couldn’t succeed in the back pullover bar exercise.

Happy Go Lucky

73 mins | Drama | March 17, 1997

Happy Go Lucky
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. Furthermore, all five must succeed, if one of them cannot do it, then all of them fail. Takashi is really worried and wonders if he won’t be always the loser who couldn’t succeed in the back pullover bar exercise.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers Cinequanon Pictures International Inc.
Original title 夏時間の大人たち
Directors Tetsuya Nakashima
Writers Tetsuya Nakashima

Cast

Hidaka Yoshitomo

as Takashi

Nagi Noriko

as Junko

Ittoku Kishibe

as Atsuo

Hiroko Taguchi

as Tomoko

Chigusa Shimamura

as Natsuko

Maki Ishikawa

as Hiroko

Ayumi Ito

as High School Girl

Kumi Nakamura

as Junko's Mother

Rina Komuro

as Kazumi

Fumiya Ôgane

as Toru

Hironobu Mori

as Shigeru

Airin Aoki

as Kiyomi Yasuno

Masayuki Itô

as Teacher Kimura

Toshikazu Suzuki

as Class Representative

Chiharu Kamiko

as Delinquent High School Girl

Ikuko Kinoshita

as Delinquent High School Girl

Noriko Aota

as Dream Woman

Jinpachi Nezu

as Man in TV Drama

Eri Ishida

as Man's Wife in TV Drama

Kimiko Yo

as Man's Lover in TV Drama

Kaori Fujii

as Man's Lover in TV Drama

Tatsuya Irie

as Soldier

Yuki Shiozawa

as Soldier

Kyōhei Tanaka

as Young Atsuo

Ayako Yoshizoe

as Atsuo's Mother

Mikiko Asuke

as Naomi

Satomi Hanamura

as Hitomi

Kichizô Gomi

as Principal

Kaori Hosomi

as Junko's Friend

Saori Ogura

as Junko's Friend

Yukari Kishimoto

as Female Teacher

Mami Kawabe

as Young Junko

Yuka Ida

as Young Hiroko