Welcome to the Weekend
This is part two of the trailer post. A couple of hours after I posted the first part, it was announced that award-winning director Shinji Aoyama died of cervical esophageal cancer at the age of 57. He is most famous for the film Eureka, which stars Koji Yakusho and Aoi Miyazaki as survivors of a bus hijacking. It won the International Federation of Film Critics prize at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
According to the obituary at the Japan Times, his novelization of Eureka was awarded the Yukio Mishima prize.
His last film was Living in Your Sky (2020), which played at Busan in that year before going on general release.
RIP Shinji Aoyama
What else was released this weekend?
Two Out Full Base 
ツーアウトフルベース 「 Tsu- Auto Furu Be-su」
Release Date: March 25th, 2022
Duration: 97 mins.
Director: Hirokazu Fujikawa
Writer: Eiji Uchida (Script)
Starring: Aran Abe, Mizuki Itagaki, Haruka Kudo, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Shoki Morohoshi,
A coming-of-age film with an original screenplay by Eiji Uchida of Grateful Dead and Lowlife Love fame.
Synopsis: Ichi and his partner Hachi were the star talents on their high school baseball team and were expected to become professionals, but after their participation in the Koshien National Championships was cancelled due to a scandal within their club, their lives have been on the slide ever since. 10 years later, they involved in drugs and the yakuza and are caught up in a war between gangs. Maybe this will be the time for them to escape the criminal underworld.
Nigiyaka
賑やか 「 Nigiyaka」
Release Date: March 25th, 2022
Duration: 26 mins.
Director: Akihiko Yano
Writer: Akihiko Yano (Script)
Starring: Kimio Takatani, Yuya Okutsu, Ryo Iwase, Tomoki Kimura, Haruhiko Fujino,
A short film directed by Akihiko Yano, whose recent film yes, yes, yes hit cinemas yesterday. This short was selected for the Sapporo International Short Film Festival’s Japan Panorama Competition.
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Synopsis: Yusaku, a former comedian, is so deep in debt to his girlfriend he is forced to steal a bag belonging to a man but this is just the start of a terrible long night lit up by the neon lights of the city.
Phantom Pain 
ファントムペイン 「 Fantomu Pein」
Release Date: March 25th, 2022
Duration: 100 mins.
Director: Toshiyuki Kakihara
Writer: Toshiyuki Kakihara, Mitsunori Harada (Script)
Starring: Nanae Moritani, Yuu Mashima, Mayumi Fan, Shinji Maeda, Angella, Tetsuya Kondoh,
Synopsis: A legendary genius programmer created the virtual world “Second Line” for his severely disabled daughter. There, disabled people can move as freely as normal people and they play an action game called “Phantom Pain.” It is there that Chika Suzuki works hard to reach the top. Meanwhile, Saeko, a woman who is searching for her younger sister who disappeared during her childhood, becomes a professional gamer in order to search for her sister in the game world.
HARD BLUE 
HARD BLUE 蒼穹 「 Soukyuu」
Release Date: March 26th, 2022
Duration: 82 mins.
Director: Tsutomu Kuno
Writer: Hiroshi Furukawa (Script)
Starring: Yudai Nogawa, YAMATO, Hajime Matsushima, Junichi Kawamura, Misaki Kamata,
This original film was planned and produced by the faculty and students of Kouno Laboratory at Bunkyo Gakuin University, where film producer Tsutomu Kouno works.
Synopsis: Tagaminao, is a hitman whose a fighter and sniper. Seen more as muscle and a triggerman than a planner, his handler sends him on dangerous missions. For this one, he takes his only son along with him…
The Sex Cannon Ball Run 2020, Stay Home 
劇場版 おうちでキャノンボール2020 「 Geekijouan Ouchi de Kyanonbo-ru 2020」
Release Date: March 26th, 2022
Duration: 109 mins.
Director: Company Matsuo
Writer: N/A
Starring: Company Matsuo, Baksheesh Yamashita, Hajime Yanai, Michiru Arashiyama, Yuto Kuroda,
Synopsis: Company Matsuo seems to have created a roundelay omnibus film where various porn directors and actors who were practicing social distancing, make various scenes at a time when their industry had to cancel all filming. So, remote work, online editing, and, when face-to-face, keeping a social distance of 1.8 meters is strictly observed. This is naked filmmaking in the age of Corona.