Welcome to the first trailer post of the week.
The next two trailer posts follow tomorrow and the day after.
I’m upping the amount of Japanese I am doing again, the reason for which is that I met Japanese and had a conversation but found myself lost for words and missing meaning. Vocab and listening are my weak points while reading and writing are going well.
This is all part of a post-illness reboot and ahead of a trip I have vaguely planned.
What are the first batch of films released?
From Okinawa with Love 
オキナワより愛を込めて 「Okinawa yori Ai o Komete」
Release Date: August 31st, 2024
Duration: 101 mins.
Director: Hiroshi Sunairi
Writer: N/A
Starring: Mao Ishikawa
Website Twitter: @fowl2024
Hiroshi Sunairi is originally from Hiroshima but he is now based in New York. He has made two documentaries dedicated to the award-winning photographer Mao Ishikawa.
Synopsis: Mao Ishikawa is a photographer who comes from Okinawa. She spent her early 20s working as a barmaid in establishments specifically catering to African-American GIs stationed there during the Vietnam war and took photographs of them and her fellow bar workers and the children from various relationships to show the bonds, intimacy, love, racism, and politics of people living with Japan’s wartime past and America’s imperialism. These photographs formed the basis of her books like “Red Flower – The Women of Okinawa.” She guides the filmmakers around former bars, her home, and her photographs as she recounts her relationships with those she was close to. During this journey, we see how Okinawa has changed.
Rude to Love 
ロマンチック金銭感覚 「Ai ni Ranbou」
Release Date: August 30th, 2024
Duration: 105 mins.
Director: Yukihiro Morigaki
Writer: Yukihiro Morigaki, Sahoko Yamazaki (Screenplay), Shuichi Yoshida (Original Novel),
Starring: Noriko Eguchi, Kotaro Koizumi, Jun Fubuki, Fumika Baba, Ryo Iwase,
Website Twitter: @ainiranbou JFDB IMDB
Based on a novel by Shuichi Yoshida. writer of the books the films Parade (2010), Villain (2010), A Story of Yonosuke (2013), Rage (2016) were based on.
Synopsis: Momoko’s life is a placid one spent teaching soap classes, dressing with taste, and preparing elaborate menus and living with her indifferent husband Mamoru in a detached house in the grounds of his parents’ home while ignoring the stress from her mother-in-law Teruko. Momoko’s routines begin to fall apart with a series of strange occurrences like suspicious fires at a nearby dump, the disappearance of her cat, and her Mamoru’s possible infidelity…
Okite 
掟 「Okite」
Release Date: August 30th, 2024
Duration: 105 mins.
Director: Akihito Nakatsuru TRASHMASTERS
Writer: Akihito Nakatsuru (Screenplay)
Starring: Yasuyuki Morishita, Yuuji Kosugi, Kumiko Fujiki, Ryuji Yamamoto, Kazuo Kasai,
A film adaptation of a stage play by the Trashmasters Theater Company, based on Shinji Ishimaru, the former mayor of Akitakada City, Hiroshima Prefecture, whose no-nonsense attitude and use of social media made him popular. He recently threw his hat into the ring of the race to be governor of Tokyo. He was subject to a documentary earlier this year.
The film was directed and written by Akihito Nakatsuru, the writer and director of the original stageplay.
Synopsis: A political comedy drama charting the travails of a former bank employee who becomes a city mayor who works hard to eliminate political corruption and rebuild the city’s finances, but finds himself in conflict with the council.
The3 Youngmen Omega Movie 
映画 THE3名様Ω これってフツーに事件じゃね?! 「Eiga THE3 Meisama Omega Korette Futsu- ni jiken ja ne?!」
Release Date: August 30th, 2024
Duration: 105 mins.
Director: Takeshi Morita
Writer: Takeshi Morita, Makochin Ishihara (Screenplay), Makochin Ishihara (Original Creator),
Starring: Ryuta Sato, Yoshinori Okada, Takashi Tsukamoto, Tamae Ando, Nashiko Momotsuki,
Website Twitter: @the3_youngmen
Synopsis: This is a situation comedy in which three freelancers have a casual conversation at a family restaurant late at night. It is based on a famous manga that has been adapted to film form many times before it went into a 12-year hiatus and was brought back for a new film in 2022. The familiar lead actors reprise their roles. The spin here is that, following a flash of light in the night sky, an uninvited guest enters the peaceful family restaurant…
The Colors Within 
きみの色 「Kimi no Iro」
Release Date: August 30th, 2024
Duration: 100 mins
Director: Naoko Yamada
Writer: Reiko Yoshida (Screenplay),
Starring: Akari Takaishi (Kimi Sakunaga), Sayu Suzukawa (Totsuko Higurashi), Taisei Kido (Rui Kagehira), Aoi Yuuki (Shiho Nanakubo), Keiko Toda (Kimi’s Grandmother),
Animation Production: Science SARU
Website Twitter: @kiminoiro_movie ANN MAL
Director Naoko Yamada (A Silent Voice) is back with an this original animated film based on a screenplay by Reiko Yoshida (Violet Evergarden) and animated at Science Saru. Akari Takaishi of Baby Assassins and Perfect Nervous voices one of the characters.
Synopsis: Totsuko lives in Nagasaki City and can see people’s emotions as “colors”. She is careful not to darken the colours of her friends and family, and so she attends a mission school and tells lies to keep people happy. One day, Totsuko meets Kimi and Rui at an antique book store and finds two other sensitive souls, both of whom are trying to start a band. Totsuko joins them and soon feelings of friendship and even a hint of love emerge.
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3 
Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 3rd season 第1話90分SP「劇場型悪意」 「Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 3rd Season Dai 1-wa 90-bu SP “Gekijougata Akui”」
Release Date: August 03rd, 2024
Duration: 90 mins
Director: Masaharu Watanabe
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani (Screenplay/Series Composition), Tappei Nagatsuki (Original Creator),
Starring: Rie Takahashi (Emilia), Yusuke Kobayashi (Subaru Natsuki), Yumi Uchiyama (Puck), Rie Murakawa (Ram), Takehito Koyasu (Roswaal L. Mathers), Maaya Sakamoto (Echidna),
Animation Production: White Fox
Website Twitter: @Rezero_official ANN MAL
Episode one of season three will be a 90-minute special. This has been screened at anime festivals and gets a cinema run ahead of its TV broadcast in October.
Synopsis: Subaru Natsuki, an ordinary high school student who is lost in fantasy world, finds himself facing his harsh destiny when he travels with Emilia to the city of Pristella on the invitation of Anastasia. This is during the campaign for royal election which both Emilia and Anastasia have joined.