HAPPINESS

SYNOPSIS: A mysterious stranger arrives in a sleepy Japanese town carrying an odd contraption — a helmet that can conjure a person’s happiest memory back to vivid life. When he shares its power with a lonely elderly shopkeeper, word spreads and the whole town lines up for a taste of remembered joy, even as the machine’s dark side begins to surface. Cult favorite director Sabu crafts a melancholy, quietly devastating meditation on nostalgia, loss, and the price of chasing happiness that isn’t quite what it seems.