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Sugar Glass Bottle

2023-04-09 · 20 min · ★ 6.6

Drama · Science Fiction

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.

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Directors
Neo Sora
Production companies
Zakkubalan
Countries
Japan
Status
Released

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Bun KimuraBun KimuraKou
Yuta KogaYuta KogaYuta
Shiyun NakamuraShiyun NakamuraDeko-chan
Kentez AsakaKentez AsakaMitsui
Makiko WatanabeMakiko WatanabeFukuko

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