About Happyend
Orwellian Japanese high-school drama set in the near-future
In near-future Tokyo, the threat of a catastrophic earthquake looms. Two friends prank their principal before graduation, leading to the installation of an invasive school surveillance system.
BBFC Insight: moderate violence, sex references, discrimination, strong language
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Sora deftly calibrates the angst of his young characters - and the collective edginess of a nation, while nodding to the joys of the teen genre
Manages to be part futurist satire, part coming-of-age dramedy, part high school dystopia. It combines the spirit of John Hughes’s The Breakfast Club with Lindsay Anderson’s If...
