Are you ready for a darts training montage? Here comes ‘Happy Darts’!

In long-time indie director Tomoko Matsunashi‘s latest offering, Happy Darts, Emiri Henmi plays a 30-year-old office lady named Minoko who punches out at 5 o’clock on the dot every evening and rushes over to the local darts bar to be closer to her current crush, the ever-so-dreamy Shinozuka (Kazuki Kato). One night she faces off against a darts prodigy named Hachioji (Izumi Mori in her film debut) and gets soundly thrashed by a large margin. Knowing that Shinozuka would soon be going to the U.K. to compete as a pro player, Minoko makes the bold announcement that she’s going to win the national soft-tip darts competition. Now with only a short time to prepare she has to get good enough to beat her new arch rival Hachioji. With her mind made up to accomplish her goal, Minako sets out to become the best dart-thrower she can possibly be.

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“Happy Darts” opens in November.

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Tags: emiri henmi, eri nitta, hitomi sato, izumi mori, kazuki kato, koji moritsugu, mitae nagata, sports, tomoko matsunashi