These days, it’s not uncommon to see non-Japanese happily snapping up houses in the Japanese countryside for next to nothing. But Takashi Koyama’s perky teen drama “All Greens” demonstrates with acidic humor why that might not be such a great idea — at least from the perspective of adolescents bored to death with life in the sticks.

As a former restless small-town kid myself, I found the characters’ ennui relatable, even though the film, based on a prize-winning novel by Do Namiki, occasionally veers into fantasy, particularly when its trio of teenage entrepreneurs try to market their product.

That product, referenced in both the title and the name they choose for their enterprise, is marijuana, whose cultivation, sale and use are strictly prohibited by law in Japan. When real-life public figures are arrested for possession (actor Hiroya Shimizu being the latest example), their careers are effectively over.

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