
14 Dec 2006

The Pursuit of Happyness
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

Scraping by in the Tokyo streets.
When his father flees from debt, carefree college student Osamu sees his life turn upside-down. Expelled from school and evicted from his apartment, he becomes one of Japan’s many ‘net cafe refugees’, barely scraping by each day with temporary and part-time work. Even though he’s still in Tokyo, his circumstances drive him to see and experience his home city in new ways. Trying to survive, Osamu gradually acquaints himself with the ‘invisible’ spaces occupied by the wanderers and homeless of Tokyo… people just like himself.

Shu Tokieda

Akane Hojo

Rui

Junya

Kojiro

Atsushi Kodama

Suzumoto

Karube

Shun
Serizawa
Naganuma
Mori

Araki

Police Officer

Kobayakawa

Police Officer

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