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Original name: Super Happy Forever
English name: Super Happy Forever
Year: 2024
Run time: 94 minutes
Language: Japanese
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: France, Japan
Director: Kohei Igarashi
Producer: Makoto Oki, Yusaku Emoto, Martin Bertier, Damien Manivel
Cast: Hiroki Sano, Yoshinori Miyata, Nairu Yamamoto, Hoang Nh Quynh
Screenplay: Kohei Igarashi, Koichi Kubodera
Cinematographer: Wataru Takahashi
Editor: Keiko Okawa, Kohei Igarashi, Damien Manivel
Sound Designer: Gen Takahashi, Agathe Poche, Simon Apostolou
Music Composer: Daigo Sakuragi
Costume Designer: Kento Asai
Production Designer: Masato Nunobe
Production Company: MLD Films, Nobo LLC
World Sales: BAC
Kohei Igarashi directed his first feature film, Voice of Rain That Comes at Night, recipient of the Critics' Award at the Seoul Digital Cinema Festival. His graduation film from Tokyo University of the Arts, Iki o koroshite / Hold your Breath Like a Lover (2014), competed in the Cineasti del presente section of Locarno Festival. His third feature, The Night I Swam (2017) co-directed with Damien Manivel, had its premiere in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Festival and participated in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, where he presented his short film Suigyo no majiwari / Two of Us in 2023. This film precisely provides the starting point for Super Happy Together, the film premiered in the Giornati degli Autori at Venice.
Accompanied by his best friend Miyata, Sanu returns to Izu, a Japanese seaside resort where he fell in love five years earlier with his wife Nagi. Overcome by grief and nostalgia for the place, Sano starts looking for a red cap that Nagi had once misplaced.
