Happyend review | Japanese drama's future surveillance in schools

This new Japanese drama set in a high school in the near future has a lot to say about the surveillance state we live in, and it does it in an exquisitely aesthetic way.

There are moments in Neo Sora's debut narrative feature film that show us we're in the future, like a cloud being co-opted by an advertiser to hang over the city with a billboard projected within it.

But they're tiny moments, ever so subtle hints at new technologies, like you've stepped into Murakami's alternate Earth from IQ84, the differences between your world and this one almost but not quite unnoticeable.

In an inner-city Tokyo high school, the principal (Shino Sano) reacts badly when his expensive yellow sports car is found in the car park turned on its head, sitting like a sculpture headlights planted to the grou