Happy of the End (2024)

Both stories show the bleak side of life and the people trying to survive in the midst of it poverty and crime.

Both are dark, gritty portrayal of two messed up individuals in a mafia-esque setting which touches on sex work and the plight of the poor and the downtrodden. Both follows two people as they try to hold onto each other despite their circumstances trying to tear them apart.

While Double Mints is more about obsession and is a lot darker than Happy of the End, the latter is more subtle and understanding in treating its characters. Happy of the End, though portrays all the hardships and bleakness of the characters' lives, still focuses on hope, will to survive, and well, more positive stuff. Double Mints on the other hand is downright dark, tragic, and portrays violence and sexual abuse on a very disturbing scale. They are similar in certain themes, but also very different in the overall vibe.

Happy of the End is BL themed while Call Boy is not. Both films detail the dangerous and dark work of being a call boy in Japan.

Both are dark stories with sex work as an important part of the story. They're also both stories featuring mlm protagonists that involve violence.

Both series are dark and you feel the misery throughout. Two young men take care of each other when they have no one else and their parents fail them. They eventually fall in love. Both Gray shelter and Happy of the end have a happy/hopeful ending. Happy of the end has more trigger warnings and traumatic things that happen.

Both feature protagonists who used to be sex workers. They have themes of loneliness and trying to overcome their past.

-Japanese BLs
-Give off similar vibes and emotions to the watcher
-Both are realistic in a sense at the main leads forest love goes off to marry a women and live a “normal” life leaving the main lead behind.

Eternal Yesterday and Happy Of The End are completely different in terms of plot, but both carry a strong sense of misery throughout its runtime.

Both r japanese BL
The plots r a bit different but a lot of similarities b/ w the characters
We have a dom and sub kinda relationship in both .
Both r dark in some ways but "happy of the end" is way more darker in the plots

Both explores the issues of how it's easy to be
-poor ,
-homeless
- forgotten in Tokyo.
Also stories of love, survival & friendship.

Though Happy of the End is told from an LGBTQ, / BL angle that adds an extra perspective on issues of SA, exploitation, street industry and the commodification of bodies (young & old).

-Japanese BL
-Tough life of call boys
-Dark themes

Both films are about the dark reality of homosexual sex workers

Both are Japanese language BL films about male sex workers.

Both stories tell of the dark reality in being a call boy. Themes of being abandoned by family and used by callous people.

-Betrayed by family
-S/A
-Male sex workers