Sugar Glass Bottle (2025)

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.

Released June 8, 2025 20 min None+

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Short

Keywords: tmdb.japan, tmdb.coming-of-age, tmdb.neo-noir, tmdb.near-future, tmdb.short-film, mdblist.imdb-short, aspectratio.1-85-1

Production Companies: Zakkubalan

Country: Japan
Production Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese