By: Clotilde Chinnici
As an American-Japanese production that promises to examine a futuristic state of constant surveillance and government control from the perspective of the students in Tokyo, the very premise of Happyend sounds immediately exciting. From the little that was revealed about its plot before the film's world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, it became immediately clear how this film was going to focus on important topics that are becoming more and more contemporary in today's world.