Happy Weekend
I hope you are well
This is the second of three trailer posts for this weekend (the first one is here). Come back tomorrow for more trailers!
What are the next batch of films released this weekend?
Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Movie: Maji Love ST☆RISH Tours 
劇場版 うたの☆プリンスさまっ♪ マジLOVEスターリッシュツアーズ 「Gekijouban Uta no Purinsu sama Maji LOVE Suta-risshu Tsua-zu」
Release Date: June 14th, 2019
Duration: 102 mins.
Director: Chika Nagaoka
Writer: Noriyasu Agematsu, Broccoli (Original Creator)
Starring: Hiro Shimono (Sho Kurusu), Junichi Suwabe (Ren Jinguji), Kenichi Suzumura (Masato Hijirikawa), Kousuke Toriumi (Cecil Aijima), Mamoru Miyano (Tokiya Ichinose),
Production Studio: A-1 Pictures
The otome game “Uta no Prince Sama ♪” debuted on the PSP in 2010 before getting an anime adaptation in 2011. A decade on and the franchise is celebrating making it this far. There has already been one movie adaptation (back in 2019). This year there is a special and this movie released.
Synopsis: The story takes place in a school for unique people who aim to be idols. Lessons are focused on making the best musical performance so expect lots of singing and dancing and high-quality stage production. The seven-member idol group “ST☆RISH” perform. To make this film, live performances were created and animated.
Outrodouble 
アウトロダブル 「Autorodaburu」
Release Date: September 02nd, 2022
Duration: 79 mins.
Director: Kenichiro Nishiumi
Writer: Masao Iketani (Script),
Starring: Rei Fujita, Ryuji Sato, Hikaru Hakishima, Taro Nakamura, Ryoya Takahashi, Takeshi Nadagi,
This is the final part of a series of films that have been released over the years – Double Drive 1 and 2 and Borderline – and it features characters from each instalment.
Synopsis: Aberu Wagatsuma and Junya Igarashi are a couple of no-hopers drifting around and working together after the money they made selling their car runs out. After starting a business in a run-down neighbourhood, their fortune takes another turn when they meet a rock star, his son, and a lot of yakuza…
Ore to ○○○sureba ureru / You Can Sell if You Have Sex with Me 
俺と○○○すれば売れる 「Ore to ○○○sureba ureru」
Release Date: September 02nd, 2022
Duration: 79 mins.
Director: Toshiyuki Morioka
Writer: Toshiyuki Morioka (Script), Kaho (Original Manga),
Starring: Yasuna Aoyama, Ruka Nishinori, Koki Takeda, Yuki Tsuburaya, Shusuke Judai, Naho Yamada, Yosuke Daichi, Masayasu Yagi, Yota Kawase,
This is based on a female manga-ka’s personal experience in the industry as she tries to break in. Yasuna Aoyama, a gravure model and race queen, takes the lead. It looks like a depressing Bakuman.
Synopsis: Kaho has always aimed to be a manga ever since she was a little girl living in a rural area. When in high school, she submits her manga to a magazine only for an editor to call back with the shocking demand that she has to have sex with him if she wants to be published.
A year after this incident, Kaho graduates from high school and moves to Tokyo where she gets work as an assistant of a professional artist to learn the ropes. This education entails both drawing and getting to grips with fellow artists with nefarious minds and it is tough but love comes in the form of Minami, a kind young man who shares her ambitions. Kaho has a lot to work for now!
Kandagawa no Futari 
神田川のふたり 「Kandagawa no Futari」
Release Date: September 02nd, 2022
Duration: 83 mins.
Director: Shinji Imaoka
Writer: Toshiyuki Morioka (Script),
Starring: Yuki Kamiosako, Amon Hirai, Kosuke Naito, Riko Okamoto, Nao Takimizu,
Shinji Imaoka of Reiko and the Dolphins (2019) and Far Away, Further Away (2022) is releasing a lot of indie films this year and gives us a coming-of-age drama that stars Yuki Kamiosako (Spaghetti Code Love) and Amon Hirai (On the Edge of Their Seats, For Rei, and Melting Sounds).
Synopsis: Mai and Tomoki are two teens who attend different high schools. In the past, they were both in the same junior high school and harboured feelings for each others. The funeral of a junior high classmate brings them back together again. As they walk along the Kanda River together, they encounter strange people and events and, at a shrine, an ema (votive picture tablet) for the fulfilment of love that their deceased classmate put up. The pair head to Inokashira Park to track down the girl on the ema to convey their classmate’s feelings.
HYODO Yashio Hihokan Rabudoru Senki 
HYODO 八潮秘宝館ラブドール戦記 「HYODO Yashio Hihokan Rabudo-ru Senki」
Release Date: September 02nd, 2022
Duration: 116 mins.
Director: Mitsutaka Fukuda
Writer: Toshiyuki Morioka (Script),
Starring: Yoshitaka Hyodo, Yukiko Sumi, Megan Alexander, MIYAKO, Toshihide Morikawa, Rascal,
Synopsis: This documentary introduces us to Yoshitaka Hyodo, a man who has turned his home into the world’s only love doll “treasure house.” It is located in a residential area in Yashio City, Saitama Prefecture. His passion comes from the time he used to be a “love doll photographer,” but his fame grew once he opened his home to the public and attracted media coverage and tourists from Japan and abroad. Episodes of his life are explored, including the unexplained onset of brain damage and the kidnapping of a love doll that cost him millions of yen.
MIRRORLIAR FILMS Season4 
Release Date: September 02nd, 2022
Duration: 79 mins.
Director: Eliza Ikeda, GAZEBO, Takumi Saito, Yuki Makabe, Michihito Fujii, Takeshi Fukunaga, Aasami Mizukawa, Tsuyoshi Muro, Riko Murakami,
Writer: Koji Hashimoto, Takeshi Fukunaga, Michihito Fujii, Yuki Makabe, Riko Murakami, Tsuyoshi Muro, (Script),
Starring: Leo Fritz, Manami Ivee, Sae Kawakubo, Sairi Ito, Junki Tozuka, Takumi Saito, Yuuki Hirako,
Synopsis: This is the fourth instalment of the MIRRORLIAR FILMS omnibus series in which directors and actors, manga-ka and musician, create short films based on a theme. This one’s theme is all about “change.”