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JAPAN · 1944

This Happy Life

Mikio Naruse
wartime hardship community resilience rationing and scarcity domestic adaptation Japanese home front
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Synopsis

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

Year1944
CountryJapan
DirectorMikio Naruse
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