Come On Happiness

In 2004 singersongwriter Matsumoto Tetsuya wrote an autobiography that included a section about his relationship with his troubled mother Writerdirector Nakamura Daisuke adapts that story to film with Shiwase Come On his directorial debut The film covers the marriage of Tetsuyas mother and yakuza father his mothers drug habit his stay at an orphanage and his reconciliation with his mother after becoming an adult In addition to writing and performing the films theme song Matsumoto Tetsuya also composed the score to this touching film In 2011 Shiawase Come On won Grand Prix at the 2011 Okuradashi Film Festival a film festival dedicated to screening unreleased Japanese films