Official Selection - Out of Competition

Super Happy Forever

Kohei IGARASHI
Festival Pops 2024 94 min Japan, France
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Synopsis

A tender and melancholic exploration of pain

Along with his best friend Miyata, Sanu returns to Izu, a Japanese seaside resort where he met five years earlier his now-wife Nagi. Driven by grief and nostalgia for the place, Sano sets out to find a red cap that Nagi had once misplaced. Miyata, meanwhile, is interested in a personal development course called “Super Happy Forever.”

With its ghostly ambience and melancholy seaside landscapes, Super Happy Forever stands out for its delightful sense of derision and discrepancy, while portraying a masculinity still rare in cinema, as well as a deconstructed friendship.

Cast/Avec

  • Hiroki Sano
  • Yoshinori Miyata
  • Nairu Yamamoto

Screenplay

  •  Kohei Igarashi
  • Kochi Kubodera 

Cinematographer

  • Wataru Takahashi

Sound

  • Gen Takahashi
  • Agathe Poche
  • Simon Apostolou

Music

  • Daigo Sakuragi

Production

  •  Nobo
  • Coproduction : MLD Films 

Screenings

Sunday 09 March 2025 15:30
Lieux : Cinémathèque
Audio : Japanese
Subtitles : English
Screening : Public Screening
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Tuesday 11 March 2025 16:00
Lieux : Cinémathèque
Audio : Japanese
Subtitles : English
Screening : Public Screening
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Kohei IGARASHI

Kohei IGARASHI
Kohei IGARASHI

Kohei Igarashi began making films at the age of 18, while studying at Tokyo’s Zokei University. In 2008, his first feature film, Voice of Rain That Comes at Night, was screened at the Cinema Digital Seoul festival and won the Korean Critics’ Prize. In 2011, he directed the short film Apartness. That same year, he attended a filmmaking program in Tokyo with Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and made several short films. In 2014, his thesis film, Hold Your Breath Like a Lover, was selected at Locarno. In 2017, he co-directs Takara, la nuit où j’ai nagé with Damien Manivel.

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Filmography

  • Super Happy Forever 2024
  • Suigyo no majiwari (short film) 2023
  • Takara - La nuit où j’ai nagé 2017
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