Happinet Phantom Leads Tokyo Market Slate With ‘Goodbye, Merciless World’

Happinet Phantom Studios, the Japanese mini-studio which launched Oscar contender “Plan 75” in its dwelling market, can also be dealing with worldwide gross sales on a raft of recent titles.

These have been launched on the in-person Busan market and shall be given an extra launch this week on the on-line solely Tokyo market (TIFFCOM).

Headlining the slate is “Goodbye Merciless World,” a crime-action-drama which stars “Drive My Automotive” lead Nishijima Hidetoshi. Directed by Omori Tatsushi, the image recounts a daring heist by 5 criminals who scarcely know one another at a love motel favored by a gang clan. Whereas the 5 try to fade away to their particular person destinies, the gang mounts a search and destroy mission. The movie had its industrial launch in Japan final month and abroad, subsequent performs on the Hawaii Worldwide Movie Pageant.

Additionally packing an motion punch is “Life within the Quick Lane,” wherein a former boxer who struggles to settle again into regular society after the tip of his profession. He’s tempted into the underground battle scene which is nastier however extra exhilarating. Directed by Suzuki Taichi, it launched in Japanese theaters in Could.

“Love is Mild” performs in a extra romantic vein. Directed by Kobayashi Keiichi, the criss-cross story includes a person who can see a lady’s secret glow, his childhood buddy and a lady who repeatedly falls for males who’re already in a relationship.

Happinet can also be one of many producers of “Small, Sluggish However Regular,” the French-Japanese co-produced movie directed by Miyake Sho that premiered earlier this yr in Berlin. The story of a hearing-impaired girl who desires of turning into an expert boxer, however finds obstacles always in her manner, continues to play on the pageant circuit. It was in Busan and now performs within the Tokyo Worldwide Movie Pageant within the Nippon Cinema part, the place it receives its Japanese premiere. Worldwide gross sales are dealt with by France’s Charades.

On the distribution entrance, Happinet additionally has Korean Oscar contender and Cannes prize-winner “Determination to Go away” and the sought-after “Aftersun.”