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Near-future Tokyo. Kou, through the help of his high school best friend, finds a surprising way to express his mounting frustration at the insidious forces of commercialism that are forcing out the neighbors he cares most about. Initially inspired by a prank that the writer-director Neo Sora (The Chicken, 2020) had pulled on him in his childhood, a sense of warm nostalgia and cold, material reality intermingle to tell a tale set in the not-so-distant future about disappearing spaces and the forces of policing and gentrification that drills this process forward.
Other films by Neo Sora
A Very Straight Neck
2025
Happyend
2024
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
2023
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano 2022
2022
No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation
2022
Ainu Neno An Ainu
2021
The Chicken
2020
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Improvisation for Sonic Cure
2020
Seachange
2017
Sirens
2017
Boycott Rhythm Machine Worldwide Versus I
2016
Three Daughters
2014
