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Super Happy Forever

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North American Premiere

In Kohei Igarashi’s haunting, mysterious film, Sano (Hiroshi Sano) and his friend Miyata (Yoshinori Miyata) return to the seaside town where Sano met his wife Nagi (Nairu Yamamoto) five years ago. Nagi is now deceased, and the trip is part of an attempt to exorcise Sano’s grief. Eventually, the director takes us back in time, showing the couple’s first meeting…

Kohei shoots in long takes, portraying the action in a cool, distanced manner that allows for contemplation even as the story remains engrossing. Sano and Nagi’s strange, felicitous first meeting is key to the film’s themes of chance, personality, and the strange and often cruel ways they intersect. Hiroshi Sano gives a fine performance, exuding dazed grief in the film’s opening section and altering his technique with the leap back to happier times. Super Happy Forever is a deceptively casual film: beneath the placid surface lies something dark and unnameable yet somehow recognizable.

 

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Director
Cast

Hiroshi Sano, Yoshinori Miyata, Nairu Yamamoto, Hoang Nhu Quynh

Credits
Country of Origin

Japan/France

Year

2024

Language

In Japanese with English subtitles

18+

At SFU Woodwards

19+

At Fifth Avenue

94 min
Cinemas of Asia Drama Romance
MLD Films, Nobo LLC

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