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HAPPYEND
HAPPYEND

• Director: Neo Sora
• JAPAN, USA / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 113’ / Japanese; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Neo Sora
• Director of Photography: Bill Kirstein
• Editing: Albert Tholen
• Music: Lia Ouyang Rusli
• Cast: Hayato Kurihara, Yukito Hidaka, Yuta Hayashi, Shina Peng, ARAZI, Kilala Inori, PUSHIM, Ayumu Nakajima, Makiko Watanabe, Shiro Sano
• Producer: Albert Tholen, Aiko Masubuchi, Eric Nyari, Alex C. Lo, Anthony Chen
• Production Co.: Zakkubalan, Cineric Creative, Cinema Inutile, Giraffe Pictures
• World Sales: MAGNIFY

2024 Pingyao Special Jury Award

A captivating coming-of-age drama, Happyend paints a poignant portrait of teenage rebellion against a backdrop of social anxiety and dystopian unease. Set in a near-future Tokyo, Happyend follows Yuta and Kou, two inseparable friends and aspiring techno DJs. As the weight of looming disaster and omnipresent surveillance systems threaten their freedom, they find solace in music. However, a mischievous prank they devise at school sets in motion a series of events that challenge their sense of security and force them to confront a complex world. Follow up to the solemn documentary he directed on his father, Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus, Neosora’s fiction feature debut premiered at Venice Film Festival.

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.