Artist Playground' Happiness Is A Pearl Last 4th of June, I had the pleasure of seeing Happiness is a Pearl, a stage play directed by Paul Jake Paule. Happiness is a pearl is about Mari, the wife of a billionaire who then becomes attached to Kenji, a gigolo who has a pearl stitched under the skin of his genitalia. However, Kenji is falling for Maria, a japayuki from the Philippines.