Exclusive: After the since-paused Metrograph Pictures released rights to the movie back to its sales company, Film Movement ...

"Our generation is hopeless.... What are you laughing about?" Film Movement has debuted the official US trailer for an indie ...

Film Movement has shared a poster and trailer for writer-director Neo Sora’s Japanese dystopian sci-fi drama Happyend. Set in ...

In near-future Tokyo, the threat of a catastrophic quake looms. Two friends prank their principal before graduation, leading ...

Happyend is produced by Albert Tholen and Aiko Masubuchi from Zakkubalan, Eric Nyari from Cineric Creative, Alex C. Lo from Cinema Inutile and Anthony Chen from Giraffe Pictures.

‘Happyend’ Review: Neo Sora’s Fiction Feature Debut Is a Poetic Portrait of Youth in Crisis TIFF 2024: The kids are more than alright – though their world is not in this incisive film ...

Happyend, Neo Sora, Venice Film Festival ‘Happyend’ Review: Friendship Isn’t Future-Proof in a Poignant Surveillance-State Allegory Reviewed at The Hazelton Hotel Screening Room, Toronto.

Neo Sora’s narrative debut “Happyend,” a dystopian portrait of rebellious youth fighting for a better future that first bowed in Venice’s Horizons section, has sold to multiple territories ...

Director Neo Sora’s first feature film “Happyend” portrays the sparkle and pain of youth in a cool manner. But it also sounds a warning against the escalation of division and the control of ...

Happyend is Sora’s first fictional feature but he was in Venice last year with the documentary, Opus, which captured the final performance of his late father, Japanese musical icon Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Watching Neo Sora’s debut feature “Happyend,” a coming-of-age film set in the near future, I was reminded of stories I’d heard from my wife about her Tokyo high school, which was shut down ...

“Happy End” certainly derives some of its ferocious edge from observations about the prevailing powers of the Western world. “The way that people are elected now is that populists come to ...