Two teens prank their school principal by upending his car in writer-director Neo Sora’s "Happyend." (Courtesy Film Movement) When you’re a teenager, everything feels like the end of the world. So ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

Indie director Nobuhiro Yamashita was not under the impression that he had much insight into the lives of high-school girls. For his first three features (Hazy Life (1999), No One’s Ark (2003), and ...