Happy Hour

Happy Hour

2015•5h 17m•7.4/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.4/10(90)

Four women in their thirties reevaluate their relationships, both shared and private, after a startling revelation concerning one's marriage forces each of them to ask one of life's biggest questions: "Am I who I want to be?"

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Production

Kobe Workshop Cinema Project LLP, Fictive, Neopa

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Sachie Tanaka

Sachie Tanaka

Akari

Hazuki Kikuchi

Hazuki Kikuchi

Sakurako

Maiko Mihara

Maiko Mihara

Fumi

Rira Kawamura

Rira Kawamura

Jun

Yoshio Shin

Yoshihiko

Hiroyuki Miura

Takuya

Yoshitaka Zahana

Kohei

Shuhei Shibata

Ukai

Hiromi Demura

Hinako

Hajime Sakasho

Kazama

Tsugumi Kugai

Yoshie

Yasunobu Tanabe

Kurita

Ayaka Shibutani

Ayaka Shibutani

Yuzuki

Yuichiro Ito

Kawano

Shoko Fukunaga

Mitsu

Tomo Kawamura

Daiki

Kilala Inori

Kilala Inori

Yuki

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Yuzawa

Chinatsu Masuda

Yuzawa's Daughter

Masuda Manabu

Lawyer

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