Super Happy Forever

Kohei Igarashi

Sembène 2025

In a Japanese coastal town, where the boundaries between past and present blur, Sano embarks on a search for a lost hat... and for a way to say goodbye to his wife.

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Sano, along with his best friend Miyata returns to the Japanese coastal town of Izu where he fell in love with his now-deceased wife Nagi five years earlier. He searches for a red hat that his wife lost back then, hoping to reconnect with her.

A poetic film about loss, mourning, and the search for meaning. Director Kohei Igarashi subtly weaves past and present, using a lost hat as a symbolic thread throughout. His eye for small, everyday moments gives the film an intimate feel. A melancholy ode to life and death in modern Japan. It won the Grand Prix for Best Film at the 51st edition of Film Fest Gent.

direction: Kohei Igarashi
cast: Yoshinori Miyata, Yamamoto Nairu, Hoang Nh Quynh
duration: 94 min
year: 2024
country: Japan
language: Japanese
Subtitles: Dutch

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"A delicate, modest, and subtly reversed love story that doesn't jump from one timeline to another, but offers the past as a bittersweet pursuer of the present." − Variety