Sugar Glass Bottle (2023)

In this stylish neo-noir set in a near-future Tokyo, two teenage boys planning a prank discover the hard edges of the real estate market.

20 min · Japan · Dir. Neo Sora

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.

Cast

Bun Kimura

Kou

Yuta Koga

Yuta

Shiyun Nakamura

Deko-chan

Kentez Asaka

Mitsui

Makiko Watanabe

Fukuko

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