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Sugar Glass Bottle (2025)

Sugar Glass Bottle (2025)

Science Fiction Drama

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.

Release Date: 2025, June 8
Directors: Neo Sora
Countries: Japan
Production: Zakkubalan
Cast: Bun Kimura, Shiyun Nakamura, Makiko Watanabe, Yuta Koga, Kentez Asaka

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

coming of age short film neo noir near future japan