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Happyend

Hayato Kurihara

Yukito Hidaka

Yuta Hayashi

Shina Peng

ARAZI

Kilala Inori

Ayumu Nakajima

Masaru Yahagi

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Makiko Watanabe

Shiro Sano

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Neo Sora

Eriko Matsuda

Keiji Fukuhiro

Toshihisa Kato

Naoki Misumizono

Kouichi Kawasaki

Motomasa Okui

Yoshi Kuremura

Saki Miyagawa

Ruriko Takahashi

Shunsaku Yajima

Yuka Sasaki

Daisuke Ishihara

Junshin Soga

Tetsuichirô Tsuta

Takeshi Fukunaga

Masato Nakanishi

Hidetoshi Wakabayashi

Sousuke Hirano

Kosuke Tanaka

Ayaru Nakano

Tomohiro Kumagai

Toru Hashiguchi

Akinobu Kohno

Kota Goto

Mikio Yoshioka

Erina Uenishi

Eigi Kodaka

Yuta Koga

Ryuhei Higashiyama

Hiromu

Mayumi Hoshi

Naoyo Ichinose

Shinya Yoshinaga

Takuto Hirano

Ryoji Kuwahara

Shinsuke Itô

Yumi Koretsune

Shinmaru

Yo Aizawa

Lisa Joy Hawes

Shyunsuke Mori

Emmanuel Yuto

Akito Kishida

Suzuki Miai Mwendwa

Hiromi Kuwahata

Hiroaki Nobori

Naofumi Ariyoshi

Hiroyuki Taniyama

Aiko Masubuchi

Kanon Kudamatsuya

Yoshino Ogata

Rikiya Takano

Mimiko Goldstein

Ichika Okatsu

Ema Ryan Yamazaki

Robina Riccitiello

Alex C. Lo

Douglas Choi

Albert Tholen

Anthony Chen

Kaoru Hayashi

Bill Kirstein

Teoh Yi Peng

Engin Yenidünya

Samuel Sagan

Su Ching Teh

Eric Nyari

Miki Nomura

Lia Ouyang Rusli

Norifumi Ataka

Yasuhiro Kaneko

Juni Kurita

Junko Hirabayashi

Osamu Takizawa

Shusaku Furuno

Choi Na-young

Mizuki Toriya

Jeremy Zelnik

Masora Fukuda

Kazuko Shingyoku

Koichi Kubodera

Marina Okamoto

Naoyoshi Tanaka

Shunji Goto

Meiko Kouno

Satoshi Hirai

Kazuki Moriyama

Kokone Yamaguchi

Daiki Satô

Tetsuya Sanzaka

Tsuneyuki Aikou

Tim Masick

Marlange Piard

Fumiro Sato

Makoto Muranuki

Yuna Iwama

Park Eul-bin

Tom Paul

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There’s something quite Orwellian about this futuristic drama set in a Japan living under the threat of a once-in-a-century earthquake that could devastate the place. First to capitalise on this paranoia is the Prime Minister who passes a series of decrees that limit the movement and freedoms of most of the population. This proves especially troublesome for a group of high school students who, after pulling a prank on the principal, find themselves very much in his firing line. Initially their mischief, and their love of music, keeps the group together but when “Yuta” (Hayato Kurihara) and best pal “Kou” (Yukito Hidaka) start to drift apart, the dynamic of the group starts to change. “Yuta” is associating more with the focussed “Fumi” (Kilala Inori) and other students determined to rebel against the increasingly authoritarian regime whilst his pals are enjoying what’s left of their final year. Things come to an head when some of the students stage a sit-in in the principal’s office and the original group of happy-go-lucky mischief makers realise that adulthood is beckoning and there is no going back. The film itself is really nothing much to write home about, but what it attempts to deal with is more interesting: the State relying on a combination of fear and apathy by the general public; professionals who have to play the political game to keep their jobs and improve their school and the gradual realisation amongst hitherto joined-at-the-hip teenagers that they may have to go their separate ways. That’s proving quite a wrench for not just the two boys here, but for some of the others whose hormones are rather uncertainly making their presence felt. The acting and writing is all adequate, nothing really more, but there are some fun scenes to compensate - usually from the kilt-clad “Ata-Chan” (Yûta Hayashi) and some of the expressions on the face of their head teacher (Shirô Sano) raise a smile too. Logistically, I’m not at all sure just how they could ever have carried out their mischief in the first place, but this isn’t really a film that stands too much scrutiny. It’s more of an introductory guide to life when things start to become a little more grown up.

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