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RKS 2025 Film: “Super Happy Forever”: Perhaps Instead “Eternally Miserable”

In “Super Happy Forever”, a Japanese feature film, director Kohei Igarashi plays with your mind right off the bat with the film’s name. A cultish misnomer. A fantasy. The film is more a dive into unhappiness derived from wishful thinking. And temporally Igarashi plays with you but not me as I have the film downContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Super Happy Forever”: Perhaps Instead “Eternally Miserable””

RKS Film: “Missing”: Japanese Serial Killer on the Loose!

“Missing” starts with what looks like a simple linear plot but devolves into the present being overtaken by the past to resurface back in the present. People are often not what they appear to be initially. The innocent are guilty. Murder, backstabbing and double dealing lead the way. There is a serial killer on theContinue reading “RKS Film: “Missing”: Japanese Serial Killer on the Loose!”