Sugar Glass Bottle
6.8
“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.
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Neo Sora Director · Osame Maruike Cinematographer Albert Tholen Editor
United States release August 10, 2022 · Produced in Japan · Original title アメガラス
Production
Zakkubalan
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Japan
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Original title
アメガラス
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
United States · August 10, 2022
Premiere · Hamptons International Film Festival
Hong Kong SAR China
April 1, 2023 · Digital · HKIFF47 ONLINE
April 9, 2023 · Theatrical · Hong Kong International Film Festival
Japan
October 8, 2022 · Digital
South Korea
June 8, 2025 · Premiere · Muju Film Festival
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