Sugar Glass Bottle (2025)

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.

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.

Genres: Drama, Science Fiction

Stars: Bun Kimura, Yuta Koga, Shiyun Nakamura, Kentez Asaka, Makiko Watanabe

Release Date: 2025-06-08

Country: Japan

Ratings: 7 / 10 (1 votes)

Runtime: 20 mins