Neo Sora and Shina Peng on Happyend | NYFF62

Director Neo Sora and actor Shina Peng discuss Happyend, a Main Slate selection of the 62nd New York Film Festival, with NYFF selection committee member Florence Almozini. Learn more: www.filmlinc.o...
Contemporary global anxieties over the gradual slide into governmental totalitarianism find an original and touching outlet in this resonant drama about youth culture in Japan. Neo Sora, making his fiction feature debut following his elegant music tribute Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus (NYFF61), sets his film in a Tokyo high school sometime in the near future. Here, two best friends since childhood, Kou (Yukito Hidaka) and Yuta (Hayato Kurihara), run afoul of their disciplinarian principal (Shiro Sano), who has installed a draconian surveillance system after being the target of an elaborate prank. As the boys try to figure out how to align themselves within the increasingly oppressive education system, larger external forces summon further threats, including constant looming natural disasters. Sora’s absorbing and humane film tackles universal political fears, the tenuous bonds of friendship, and questions of individual will.
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Oh, how nice... World War Three just started and you had to do a song and dance about it? You're all insane!