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HAPPY ISLAND

By Yuya WATANABE

GETA FILMS / GREEN LIGHT LLC - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2017

Festivals
& Awards

Shimanto Film Festival 2018

Best Feature Award

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Drama, Social issues
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 78 mn
- Director(s)
- Yuya WATANABE
- Writer(s)
- Yuya WATANABE
- Cast
- Kaito YOSHIMURA, Suzuka OHGO, Koichi MIWA, Naoki NAKAMURA, Masato HAGIWARA
- Synopsis
- Shinya is 23 years old living in Tokyo. He changes his job often and lives a half-hearted life. A master of the bar introduces him a job of agriculture in Fukushima, where the massive earthquake hit some years ago. Shinya starts a farm work unwillingly. While living on the area, he meets Masao who lost his wife due to the earthquake and Risa who works at a nursery school, and he also feels the effort and warmth of the people living there.
  
  One month has passed since Shinya worked as a farmer, and he starts dealing with shipping and witnessing radioactivity test of the harvest. So, he will face the reality of harmful rumors.
  
  Shinya knows Masao’s passion and extraordinary efforts against agriculture; therefore, he helps to sell vegetables outside of the area. But he meets there customers who get angry and say, “Do you sell vegetables covered with radiation?” there.
  
  Shinya faces people who work hard to do what they can do, although being told the terrible things and decides to face his life seriously.