“Speculative fiction as cautionary sociopolitical commentary, Happyend marks a confident first step into narrative features for Neo Sora, who made last year’s stirring documentary tribute to his late father, Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus. …DP Bill Kirstein, who also shot Sora’s Opus, has an elegant eye for composition, finding poetry in the stark urban landscapes of a fictional Tokyo (Happyend was shot mostly in Kobe).”

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