He travelled the world from Namibian desert villages to Brazilian beaches to find out what true happiness is all about. He shares his journey in the Happy movie.

Eiji Han Shimizu was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1970. He is a media producer and the creator of a highly acclaimed biography-like Manga series (graphic novel and comic book in the Japanese language), which has been published in 10 languages and in over 20 countries. Eiji recently finished producing a feature-length documentary film on happiness entitled Happy. He travelled all over the world with academy-nominated film director, Roko Belic, and interviewed the brightest minds in psychology, neuro-science, philosophy and spirituality as they looked deep into what makes people genuinely happy.

Happy combines cutting-edge science from the new field of “positive psychology” with real-life stories of people from around the world whose lives illustrate these findings. It chronicles the story of a beautiful woman named Melissa Moody, a mother of three who had a “perfect life” until the day she was run over by a truck. Disabled for nine years and disfigured for life, amazingly she is happier now than before her accident. Manoj Singh, a rickshaw puller from the slums of Kolkata, India who lives in a hut made of plastic bags with his family, is found to be as happy as the average American.