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// Super Happy Forever
Kohei Igarashi
// Japon // 2024
// 94 min // Couleur // 1:66
August 19, 2023. Childhood friends Sano and Miyata visit a resort hotel in Izu, searching for a lost red hat while revisiting places where Sano first met and fell in love with his late wife Nagi five years prior.
IN MOVIE THEATERS JUILLET 16 2025
TEAM
Director : Kohei Igarashi
Screenwriter : Kohei Igarashi, Kochi Kubodera
With : Hiroki Sano, Yoshinori Miyata, Yamamoto Nairu
Director
Born in 1983 in Shizuoka Prefecture, he directed his first feature film, Yorai Fuyu no Koe (2008), while studying at Tokyo Zokei University. His second feature, Breathless (2014), a graduation project at the Film School of Tokyo University of the Arts, was selected for the 67th Locarno Festival. Takara, The Night I Swam (2017), co-directed with French filmmaker Damien Manivel, was presented in the Orizzonti section in Venice and numerous other festivals. In 2023, he presented the short film Two of Us at the San Sebastian Festival, a sort of prequel to Super Happy Forever.
CONTACTS
Distribution : Survivance // Guillaume Morel // guillaume[at]survivance.net
Press : Emmanuel Vernières // emvernieres[at]gmail.com