The story describes how youngsters struggle to cope with the gap between their ideals and reality.
Acting
Kitamura's hollow-eyed exhaustion feels uncomfortably autobiographical.
Direction
Screens as characters—brutal intimacy in how we actually communicate now.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds like your group chat at 3am.
Director
橋爪駿輝
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Japan's 'employment ice age' discourse, it captures the specific despair of credential inflation—degrees that promise nothing.
Director Hayashi Shunsuke shot several scenes with actors actually using their real phones, capturing genuine muscle-memory scrolling that scripted performances couldn't fake.
JP
