Happyend
A gently affecting dystopian coming-of-age story set in the near future, in which a group of high schoolers rise up against their school’s chilling surveillance system.
Kou and Yuta are seniors in high school. Like typical teenagers, they love dancing to club music and hanging out with their friends. But a chain of events begins to pull them apart. After they pull a prank on their school’s headmaster, he retaliates by installing a surveillance system in the school. In the harsh political climate in a city under the constant threat of earthquakes, the school becomes a microcosm of society at large.
Neo Sora depicts a near future where the right-wing politics that are already present in today’s Japan, have gotten harsher in a way that affects everyday life. Amid this climate, the protagonists try to live their teenage lives as normally as possible, each reacting in their own ways to the growing oppression around them.
Neo Sora previously directed the music documentary Opus (R&A 2024) about the final concert of his musician father, Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Eija Niskanen
The screening of Happyend is arranged in collaboration with Helsinki Cine Aasia.
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