Shinya Kito

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that they had to fight villains who were out to conquer the world and wrote them in the Book of Prophecies. Years later in 1997, Kenji becomes a convenience store manager and leads a regular life after giving up his dreams to become a rock star. His boring life is suddenly turned upside down when his old classmate dies mysteriously and an entire family in the neighbourhood disappears. At the same time, a religious cult and its mysterious leader, Friend emerges and a strange chain of events duplicating exactly the events described in the Book of Prophecies follow. Is this the beginning of the end of the world? Who is Friend?

Angelico and Raphael, childhood friends, reunite in the clan during their Cocoon period. They also meet Diego, Emile, and Julio, who are upperclassmen, and develop a friendly relationship, but their friendship is shattered by an incident. The “Dark of the Moon” version depicts the boys’ fleeting youth and their breakdown.

As control, obsession, and fear spiral out of hand, Tokyo Utopia exposes the dark contradictions behind parental ambition and questions what “success” truly means in a society obsessed with performance. A mid-length comedy film by Yuki Sakakibara, released on YouTube in 2025.

The movie's title is a play on the popular Always - Sunset on Third Street films and also deals with circumstances 1950's Tokyo, but focuses on the homosexual district of Shinjuku ni-chome.