Happy Weekend
This is the second of a two-part trailer post. The first part is here.
I’ve had a movie-packed week with numerous titles watched:
Necronomicon
Nightbreed
Miami Vice
Gattaca
Blow Out
Dressed to Kill
A Touch of Zen
Dragon Inn
Legend of the Mountain
Raining in the Mountain
I slowed my writing output this week and published a review of We Couldn’t Become Adults and the Japanese line-up at the Chicago International Film Festival 2023.
What are the other films released this weekend?
Joshurei 
女囚霊 「Joshurei」
Release Date: September 22nd, 2023
Duration: 80 mins.
Director: Kiyoto Naruse
Writer: Jun Yagi (Screenplay), Yagi Kato (Original Manga)
Starring: Natsuko, Misa Wada, Wan Marui, Arisa Matsunaga, Nagiko Tsuji,
Synopsis: Miyama was sent to prison after committing murder on the behalf of her boss, a congresswoman. There is a rumour in the prison that brainwashing and deaths occur in the prison and Miyama’s cellmates become subject to it.
Fly, Fry Girl 
フライガール 「Furai Ga-ru」
Release Date: September 22nd, 2023
Duration: 85 mins.
Director: Kenji Fukushima
Writer: Kenji Fukushima, Masayuki Ueda (Screenplay),
Starring: Sonoko Okada, Ui Ozawa, Ryo Date, Kaito Mori, Ryuichi Matsuda,
Kenji Fukushima and Masayuki Ueda both worked on The Tale of Iya (2013).
Synopsis: University student Rui Tachibana moved to Japan when she was in junior high school and having her nationality questioned left her with a nagging question about the differences between people and an inability to get along with others. Her friend Izumi suggests that she participate in an event called “Fried Food Stamp Rally” and partner up with Koji Hirose, an aspiring novelist and food writer, to help Rui meet people with various “differences” in the process.
Onna Kazoku 
女家族 「Onna Kazoku」
Release Date: September 23rd, 2023
Duration: 89 mins.
Director: Yuya Nakaizumi
Writer: Shiori Nukumi (Screenplay),
Starring: Shiori Nukumi, Ayano Kojima, Erika Tsunashima, Ayumi Nakano, Yaeko Kimura,
Synopsis: Three sisters of the Fujieda family return to a mountain village where patriarchal traditions remain in place. Their mother and grandmother welcome them home at a time when a festival will take place. This is a festival where only the men are allowed to carry the portable shrines. The women prepare the hospitality. There are no men the Fujieda family. The eldest sister is 40 and unmarried. The middle sister has a high school-age daughter but no partner. The youngest sister is unmarried and pregnant. Each woman confronts her problems at the reunion.
Typhoon Club 
台風クラブ 「Taifuu Kurabu」
Release Date: August 31st, 1985
Duration: 115 mins.
Director: Shinji Somai
Writer: Yuji Kato (Screenplay),
Starring: Yuki Kudo, Tomokazu Miura, Tomoko Ishii, Yuka Ohnishi, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Kaori Kobayashi, Saburo Date, Yuichi Mikami, Shigeru Benibayashi,
This is the 4K restoration of Shinji Somai’s beloved cult film. It is considered to be one of the greatest Japanese films ever made and it will get a Blu-Ray release courtesy of Third Window Films.
Synopsis: A coming-of-age drama set in a provincial city on the outskirts of Tokyo, a group of junior high school students find themselves confronting fears, hopes, desires and finding growth in the days before, during, and after a typhoon.