Have a Nice Day

Name: Have a Nice Day
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Released: 2006-10-21

DramaRomanceComedy3h 26m

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Storyline

Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"), Hiroyuki Nakano ("Stereo Future," "Samurai Fiction"), Masahiko Nagasawa ("Yoru no Picnic"), Masaya Kakehi ("Bijokan), and more for a total of 18 shorts. This time around the theme is "24 hours," where filming for each work must have been completed in 24 hours in order to appear in this film.

Details

DirectorsMasahiko Nagasawa, Ken Iizuka, Ryūichi Honda, Hitoshi Yazaki, Mai Tominaga, Koto Nagata, Masahiro Muramatsu, Mari Asato,

Reviews

8 reviews · 7 critics

7 fresh · 0 rotten

Critics consensus

“Grim and gripping in equal measure, Have a Nice Day is an animated drama that pulls no punches -- and leaves a satisfying mark.”

78% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

Tara Brady

RTIrish TimesMay 18, 2018

A stunning achievement... Nobody is making films quite like Liu Jian.

Wendy Ide

RTObserver (UK)Mar 25, 2018

The individuals, like the animation, are two-dimensional. But that's surely the point.

Peter Bradshaw

RTGuardianMar 23, 2018

It's an elegantly and wittily drawn piece of work, the design being clear, simple, sometimes almost two-dimensional, foregrounding droll and telling detail: it could almost function as a storyboard cartoon for a live-action version.

John Lui

RTThe Straits Times (Singapore)Jun 8, 2020

Writer-director Liu Jian never misses an opportunity to find deadpan humour, whether it is from dead-eyed hotel clerks at budget hotels or from the assortment of crooks, each with their own tics and levels of competency, sent to hunt Xiao Zhang.