Our Happiness Alone (二十一歳の父) 60 years old

Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder brother, Ichiro, works at the Bank of Japan whose wife, Masuko, is from a very high-class family. Mototsugu becomes disgusted with such strait-laced living and leaves home to marry Yoshiko, a blind masseuse, and they live in a small apartment near a pinball parlor where he works.

Credits

Our Happiness Alone Cast

Name Character
Seiji Miyaguchi He was 50, 71 years old when he died
Homare Suguro He was 23, now 83 years old
Haruko Wanibuchi She was 18, now 78 years old as Kyoko Iwama
Eijirō Tōno He was 57, 87 years old when he died
Isao Yamagata He was 48, 80 years old when he died as Akira Sakawa
Shoichi Ozawa He was 35, 83 years old when he died
Kōji Takahashi He was 28, now 88 years old as Ichiro Sakawa
Chieko Baisho She was 22, now 82 years old as Yoshiko Sakawa
Kei Yamamoto He was 23, now 83 years old as Mototsugu Sakawa

Our Happiness Alone Crew

Name Department
Toru Takemitsu as Original Music Composer. He was 33 (65) years old when He died Sound
Our Happiness Alone poster
Our Happiness Alone (60 years)

  • Release day: Sunday, March 29, 1964
  • Runtime: 96 minutes