Airu Kubozuka

This is Happiness

Where Love Goes

2 days until the “Last Graduation Ceremony” of high school, the building was to be demolished. Each student accepted their “farewell to youth” and moved forward with regret and hope in mind. One student visits the library to meet her secret admirer who is also her teacher, one calls her boyfriend with a strained relationship due to the distance of their colleges, one is trying to expose a secret that she hid for the last 3 years, and the last student, Manami, has to give a speech during the graduation ceremony but couldn’t overcome her pain.

High school student Yuki suffers from a chronic disease and has lost hope for living. One day she has a life-changing encounter with Aki, her destructive classmate with a beautiful singing voice. Together they decide to form a band with Yusuke who secretly has feelings for Yuki.

1度は奨励会を退会したものの、35歳にしてプロ編入という史上初の偉業を成し遂げた瀬川晶司五段の自伝的映画。自身も元奨励会という豊田利晃監督が、迫力ある盤上の戦いを見事に描き上げる。主演に松田龍平。