Welcome to the second trailer post of the week.
You can find the first post here and the third post here.
I’ve spent the weekend unsubscribing from email lists as part of a desire to clean up my inbox and also limit my carbon footprint. Although I can drive, I have used public transport to get about for over a decade. My biggest drain on the environment, apart from food, would be using electricity and the internet for films.
I’ve watched over 500 films this year. Added to the list is
Japanese horror movie, House of Sayuri (2024), the French film Subway (1985), Hong Kong actioner The Inspector Wears Skirts (1988), and horror film Hold Your Breath (2024).
Great song but SPOILERS for SUBWAY!
What are the next batch of films?
Teppen no ken 
てっぺんの剣 「Teppen no ken」
Release Date: November 15th, 2024
Duration: 106 mins.
Director: Masaki Hamamoto
Writer: Madoka Hayamo (Screenplay),
Starring: Kie Kitano, Kanata Hongo, Chieko Matsubara, Meru Tashima, Haruka Kumazaki, Taisaku Akino,
Website Twitter: @teppen_ken
Synopsis: During the Warring States period, a swordswoman named Yui Yamamoto proved herself to be brilliant at wielding a blade. When she is fighting enemy soldiers while protecting a princess, she timeslips 500 years to modern-day Oita Prefecture where she is taken in by Masato Fujii, the chairman of a shochu (kinda like vodka) brewery. He was once a kendo master but laid down his sword to run the sake brewery. At that same brewery, he set up a kendo club but intends to shut it down until Yui becomes a member, training the other members and challenging Masato and changing his heart with hers.
Fictional 
フィクショナル 「Fikushonaru」
Release Date: November 15th, 2024
Duration: 70 mins.
Director: Zenzo Sakai
Writer: Zenzo Sakai (Screenplay),
Starring: Naoya Shimizu, Bun Kimura, Machiko Nishida, Masato Kawamorita, Miki Hayashida,
Website Twitter: @fictional_TX
This is a new film directed by Zenzo Sakai, who gained attention for his independently produced short film Psychology Counselor, which played at Skip City 2021.
Synopsis: A struggling filmmaker receives a job offer from someone he idolised at university. It’s all to do with making deep-fake videos. It isn’t long before the line between real and fake is blurred.
Parvathy Baul – Cross the Golden River 
パルバティ・バウル 黄金の河を渡って 「Parubati Bauru kogane no kawa o watatte」
Release Date: November 15th, 2024
Duration: 109 mins.
Director: Sakurako Abe
Writer: N/A
Starring: Parvathy Baul, Kanai Das Baul, Kazunari Abe, Tetsuya Kajiwara, Issho Fujita,
Website Twitter: @parvathybauljp
Synopsis: This documentary is Sakurako Abe’s follow-up to her 2023 work The Path – Parvathy Baul Fukyo no Utagoe . Both works are about Parvathy Baul, an Indian minstrel who embodies the world of “asceticism” common to both Japan and India through song and dance. The film looks at this culture as well as Baul’s life and tour in Japan in 2023, which encompassed places where the culture of Japanese asceticism is still alive. Performances involving Indian and Japanese musicians are on offer.
“Shogun” Episode 1 and Episode 2 
「SHOGUN 将軍」第一話＆第二話 「SHOGUN dai ichi-wa & dai ni-wa」
Release Date: November 16th, 2024
Duration: 128 mins.
Director: Jonathan van Tulleken
Writer: Rachel Kondo, Justin Marks (Screenplay), Kim Yong-ki (Original Webtoon),
Starring: Hiroyuki Sanada, Cosmo Jarvis, Anna Sawai, Tadanobu Asano, Takehiro Hira, Fumi Nikaido, Moeka Hoshi, Ako,
Episodes one and two of the award-winning FX show Shogun are being packaged for cinema screenings. It is based on the 1975 novel by James Clavell, which was previously adapted into a 1980 miniseries. The latest one won 18 Emmys, including Best Drama, Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Hiroyuki Sanada and Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Anna Sawai. It will be available on Disney Plus after the limited cinema release.
Synopsis: John Blackthorne, an English sailor, is shipwrecked in Japan during the Warring States period and becomes part of the political machinations of the wily feudal lord Toranaga and Lady Mariko, one of Toranaga’s most trusted people, an interpreter and a woman who is highly educated but with questionable ties.