Welcome to the first of two trailer posts for this week.
The next one follows tomorrow.
As the year ends, I’ve spent the last week and a bit getting acquainted with my new job and while it’s in the same building, the hours are longer than my previous one and the locations vary a lot more. The result on my goals has been less time for game and Japanese while I’ve managed to maintain film times.
That written, I will figure out how to balance everything soon – especially since there is a delegation of Japanese city workers from Himeji coming to visit!
My Japanese lesson will be on the weekend for now.
What are the films in this first trailer post?
A Tale of Winter 
冬物語 「Fuyu Monogatari」
Release Date: December 06th, 2024
Duration: 66 mins.
Director: Shunsaku Okuno
Writer: Shunsaku Okuno (Screenplay)
Starring: Yuya Matsuura, Nairu Yamamoto, Sasha Ueda, Ku Ijima,
Website Twitter: @ataleofwinter
Nairu Yamamoto is having an incredible year with quite a number of films she has appeared in ending up on cinema screens. She is paired up in a love story with Yuya Matsuura, an actor who came to prominence with Siblings of the Cape. This film was shot in Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture. This was the setting for the wonderful film Ito.
Synopsis: Yamanaka, an aspiring screenwriter living in Hirosaki, falls in love with Oshima, a graphic designer from Tokyo. She notices the ghost of a beautiful woman who seems to haunt Yamanaka and travels with him into his world and that of his screenplay.
Gekijouban Doctor-X 
劇場版ドクターX 「Gekijouban Dokuta-X」
Release Date: December 06th, 2024
Duration: 128 mins.
Director: Naomi Tamura
Writer: Miho Nakazono (Screenplay)
Starring: Ryoko Yonekura, Kei Tanaka, Yuki Uchida, Mio Imada, Shota Sometani. Kenichi Endo, Toshiyuki Nishida, Go Ayano, Ittoku Kishibe, Tomorowo Taguchi,
Website Twitter: @DoctorX_tvasahi IMDB
Sayaka Kai Red Snow (2019)
Synopsis: Michiko Daimon, a freelance genius surgeon, leaves Japan to help the president of a foreign country. During this time, Hiroto Kozu, a brilliant surgeon, and his twin brother, Takato, the CEO of a medical equipment manufacturer, begin taking over the hospital that Michiko worked in and sacking staff. A former colleague Morimoto, senses something is wrong (beyond job losses) after seeing a meeting between Michiko’s mentor, Akira Kanbara, and Hiroto and seeing Hiroto’s face change. Morimoto heads to Kure, Hiroshima to investigate Michiko’s past.
Uchi no otouto-domo ga sumimasen / Ito and Her Brothers 
うちの弟どもがすみません 「Uchi no otouto-domo ga sumimasen」
Release Date: December 06th, 2024
Duration: 105 mins.
Director: Koichiro Miki
Writer: Rika Nezu (Screenplay), Akira Ozaki (Original Manga)
Starring: Mei Hata, Ryuto Sakuma, Yuto Nasu, Nao Oriyama, Kirato Uchida, Yuko Fueki, Hana Kawamura, Runa Nakashima,
Website Twitter: @uchioto_movie JFDB IMDB
This is based on the popular shoujo comic series by Akira Ozaki, which has sold over 2.3 million copies.
Synopsis: Ito gains a new family when her mother remarries since her stepfather has four sons. Chaos ensues when her stepfather is suddenly transferred somewhere else for work and Ito begins to live with her four stepbrothers without her parents and she has to take care of her stepbrothers as the oldest person in the house! She gets along with some of the brothers but the eldest son, the cool in temperament and bluntly-spoken Gen, and the third son, the mysterious Hiiragi, are harder to read… out of consideration for the family, and she begins to care about him, but when Hiiragi develops special feelings for Ito, things take an unexpected turn.
Fight 
ファイト 「Faito」
Release Date: December 06th, 2024
Duration: 100 mins.
Director: Takayuki Kawakami
Writer: N/A
Starring: Atsushi Onita, Mayumi Inu, Bull Nakano, Tarzan Yamamoto, Chiitan, Great Kojika,
Website Twitter: @fight_movie_jp
Synopsis: This documentary follows Atsushi Onita, a professional wrestler who celebrated the 50th anniversary of his wrestling debuting with All Japan Pro Wrestling. Since then, Onita has trained overseas, retired numerous times, and even founded his own professional wrestling organisation. His wrestling matches are very unconventional and use stunts and devies such as electric current blasts and barbed wire and pyrotechnics. Onita talks about his life and there are other figures such as Tarzan Yamamoto, former editor-in-chief of Weekly Pro Wrestling, legendary wrestlers such as Bull Nakano and the Great Kojika, and Onita’s mother and fans.
Big Home 
大きな家 「Ookina ie」
Release Date: December 06th, 2024
Duration: 123 mins.
Director: Ryo Takebayashi
Writer: N/A
Starring: N/A
Website Twitter: @bighome_cinema
Synopsis: This is a documentary that follows the daily lives of children living in an orphanage in Tokyo. It was directed by Ryo Takebayashi, director of popular time-loop comedy Mondays: See You “This” Week! It depicts life through the eyes of kids growing up with people who aren’t family but aren’t strangers, showing their conflicts, feelings for those around them, and life after they leave their home.
Tetsuya Kumagawa K-BALLET TOKYO “Mermaid in Cinema” 
熊川哲也 K-BALLET TOKYO 「マーメイド in Cinema」 「Kumagawa Tetsuya K – BALLET Tokyo “Ma-meido’ in Cinema”」
Running Time: N/A
Release Date: December 06th, 2024
Director: Tetsuya Kumagawa
Writer: N/A
Starring: Nozomi Iijima, Masaya Yamamoto, Sena Hidaka, Shoya Ishibashi,
Synopsis: This is the 19th instalment of the K-BALLET film series and this is a production of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid. This is a recording of a performance at Bunkamura Orchard Hall on October 6, 2024.