*To watch the video in full screen, please click play and then the YouTube icon on the lower right-hand corner.
Date
10.23.2024 (Wed.)
Time
Screening | 6:00 PM
Q&A | 7:40 PM
Location
TCL Chinese 6 Theatres, Theatre 4
Address
6801 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028
Fee
$19 (excl. tax & service fees)
*See discount code below
AFI FEST showcases leading films from across the globe to captivated audiences in Los Angeles. With a diverse and innovative slate of programming, the film festival presents a robust lineup of fiction and nonfiction features and shorts presented in established AFI FEST sections, along with panels and conversations featuring both master filmmakers and new cinematic voices. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognizes AFI FEST as a qualifying festival for both Short Film categories for the annual Academy Awards®.
JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles is excited to co-present the screening of SUPER HAPPY FOREVER directed by Kohei Igarashi, followed by an in-person conversation with actors Hiroki Sano and Yoshinori Miyata.
A special 20% discount will be applied when entering code "JHXAFI24" when purchasing tickets online. The discount code can be applied up to 2 tickets per e-mail address.
"Kohei Igarashi’s Venice Days opening film is a gentle, unassuming love story told in retrospect. The recently widowed 20-something Sano and his best friend Miyata return to the onsen resort town of Atami in the Izu Peninsula of Japan, where five years ago Sano met and fell in love with his late wife Nagi. Retracing the steps of that fateful vacation, Sano is determined to find a long-lost red baseball cap of significant importance, seemingly chasing a past that has already faded away and shuttered for good. Structured between the past and present, between a grieving Sano and a curiously oddball Nagi, SUPER HAPPY FOREVER playfully explores the ephemeral, intangible malleability of time, shifting between connections and disconnections amongst the various characters interacting and cohabiting in this picturesque beach town. Bobby Darin’s “Beyond the Sea,” a repeat karaoke favorite, becomes an unlikely anthem to this evocative, sincere musing on lost love and friendships." –Anna Li, AFI FEST Programmer
About SUPER HAPPY FOREVER
Country: Japan, France
Year: 2024
Running Time: 95 min.
Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Director: Kohei Igarashi
Screenwriters: Kohei Igarashi, Koichi Kubodera
Producers: Makoto Oki, Yusaku Emoto, Martin Bertier, Damien Manivel
Executive Producers: Kohei Igarashi, Kenshi Otaka, Misaki Kawamura, Satoshi Takata, Go Kitahara
Director of Photography: Wataru Takahashi
Editors: Keiko Okawa, Kohei Igarashi, Damien Manivel
Production Designer: Masato Nunobe
Costume Designer: Kento Asai
Music: Daigo Sakuragi
Cast/Featuring: Hiroki Sano, Yoshinori Miyata, Nairu Yamamoto, Hoang Nh Quynh
About the Director
Kohei Igarashi is a Japanese director and writer. Igarashi graduated with a degree in cinema from the Tokyo Zokei University. He is best known for HOLD YOUR BREATH LIKE A LOVER (2014), his graduate diploma film at Tokyo University of the Arts, and THE NIGHT I SWAM (2017).
Co-Presented with
