Happy weekend, everyone!
I hope you are all well.
This week’s trailer post is going to be split into three because there are a lot of trailers. There will be one tomorrow and one on Sunday. I posted about the Glasgow International Film Festival and the Keita Yamashina film Body Remember. I am working on material for the Osaka Asian Film Festival so stay tuned for more on that.
What is released this weekend?
Under the Open Sky 
すばらしき世界 「Subarashiki Sekai」
Release Date: February 11th, 2021
Duration: 126 mins.
Director: Miwa Nishikawa
Writer: Miwa Nishikawa (Script), Ryuzo Saki (Original Novel)
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Taiga Nakano, Isao Hashizume, Meiko Kaji, Seiji Rokkaku, Masami Nagasawa, Narumi Yasuda, Yukiya Kitamura,
I’m looking forward to seeing this one.
Under the Open Sky is the latest work from Miwa Nishikawa (Sway (2006), Dear Doctor (2009)) and the first film she has directed that isn’t based on a novel or script written by herself. The novel is by Ryuzo Saki and that had the original title Mibuncho and it sounds (slightly) a bit like Kikujiro (1999), in that it is about an ex-criminal who tries to adjust to life outside of the slammer and goes on a search for his mother.
Synopsis: Masao Mikami (Koji Yakusho) has spent 13 years in prison for committing a murder. Upon his release, he struggles to re-integrate and even begins to think about his mother, from whom he was separated from as a child. However, he becomes connected with various people including two men from a TV station who want to make a TV program that shows his life.
Patlabor 2: The Movie (4DX Release) 
機動警察パトレイバー 2 the Movie 「Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor 2 the Movie」
Release Date: August 07th, 1993
Duration: 113 mins.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Kazunori Ito (Screenplay), Akemi Takada (Original Character Design)
Starring: Yoshiko Sakakibara (Shinobu Yagumo), Ryunosuke Ohbayashi (Kiichi Goto), Jinpachi Nezu (Yukihito Tsuge), Daisuke Gouri (Hiromi Yamazaki), Issei Futamata (Mikiyasu Shinshi), Mina Tominaga (Noa Izumi), Tomomichi Nishimura (Detective Matsui),
Production: Production I.G
This is a 4DX release of one of my favourite films so I would love to experience this. The new trailer is region-locked so here’s another one.
Synopsis: The year is 2002 and it is three years since the events of Patlabor one where a special unit in Tokyo’s SVD (Special Vehicle Division), the famed Mobile Police, foiled a massive crime in Tokyo Bay. The world has moved on but Labors are still an essential part of it. The destruction of a United Nations Labor team in South East Asia is the start of the build-up to a deadly terrorist plan that threatens to overthrow the Japanese government via a military takeover and it is only the SVD that can stop it.
Gekijouban Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Eternal 2 Part 2 
劇場版 美少女戦士セーラームーンEternal 前編 「Gekijouban Bishoujo Senshi Se-ra- Mu-n Eternal Zenpen」
Release Date: February 11th, 2021
Duration: 80 mins.
Director: Chiaki Kon
Writer: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Script), Naoko Takeuchi (Original Creator/Supervision),
Starring: Kotono Mitsuishi (Usagi Tsukino/SailorMoon), Ai Maeda (Setsuna Meioh/Sailor Pluton), Ami Koshimizu (Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter), Hisako Kanemoto (Ami Mizuno/Sailor Mercury), Rina Satou (Rei Hino/Sailor Mars), Sayaka Ohara (Michiru Kaioh/Sailor Neptune),
Animation Production: Studio DEEN, Toei Animation,
The second of a two-part movie continuation of the fourth season of the TV anime Sailor Moon Crystal. It is directed by Chiaki Kon and was made under the supervision of the original author, Naoko Takeuchi.
Synopsis: During a solar eclipse, Tsukino Usagi and Chibiusa meet a Pegasus named Helios in a dream and Helios is looking for two “maidens” to break the seal of the Golden Crystal. At the same time, a mysterious group called Dead Moon Circus appears in Juban city with the goal of scattering nightmare incarnations called Lemures across the world and obtaining the Legendary Silver Crystal so they can rule the Earth and Moon, and later the universe, something which the Sailor crew fight against.
Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet 
名探偵コナン 緋色の不在証明 「Meitantei Conan: Hiiro no Dangan」
Release Date: February 11th, 2021
Running Time: 94 mins.
Director: Tamoka Nagaoka
Writer: Takeharu Sakurai (Screenplay), Gosho Aoyama (Original Creator)
Starring: Minami Takayama (Conan Edogawa), Minami Hamabe (Erii Ishioka), Shuuichi Ikeda (Shuichi Akai), Wakana Yamazaki (Ran Mouri),
Animation Production: TMS Entertainment, V! Studio
Synopsis from Anime News Network: Japan is celebrating the upcoming World Sports Games, the world’s largest sporting event, in Tokyo. The “Japanese Bullet,” the world’s first vacuum-tube super-conducting linear train, is built with the latest Japanese technology and timed to coincide with the WSG opening ceremonies. The train is set to run from Shin Nagoya Station to Tokyo Station at up to 1,000 kilometers per hour. However, a bizarre incident occurs during a party held by famous major sponsors, leading to a string of kidnappings of top executives. Conan deduces a possible link to serial abductions in the WSG 15 years earlier in Boston.