Welcome to the final trailer post of the week.
You can find the first two trailer posts here and here.
I spent this week continuing to recover with my fractured knee so that meant doing festival work and also watching and writing about films.
I posted a preview of the Japanese films at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the line-up of titles at this year’s Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme. The next fest I will cover is Berlinale and the Osaka.
My favourite watches were The Adventurers (Ringo Lam), It Comes (Tetsuya Nakashima).
In tragic news, David Lynch has passed away. As a horror hound and someone open to surrealism, I totally dug Lost Highway and Blue Velvet and was left traumatised by Mulholland Drive. The Elephant Man and The Straight Story were my other favourites. The pathos he creates for his characters really moved me. That pathos, his love for people really made the end of the final season of Twin Peaks for me. I still need to watch Wild at Heart.
This news sucks. He was a master artist and his films were really moving and he seemed like a genuinely cool person as well. Every time I read his ideas on the power of cinema and how to live life, I was inspired.
RIP David Lynch.
What are the last of this weekend’s films to get a release?
Retake 
リテイク 「Riteiku」
Release Date: January 18th, 2025
Duration: 110 mins.
Director: Kota Nakano
Writer: Kota Nakano (Screenplay),
Starring: Yuta Muto, Urara, Areina Takano, Nako Ohara, Ryusei Chiba,
Twitter: @retake_movie
Website Twitter: @retake_movie IMDB
This was the winner of the 2023 Pia Film Festival Grand-Prix and it tells a story of high school students making a movie over their summer break.
Synopsis: High schooler Yu wants to make a film about “a painter and a restless girl who travel to a world where time does not flow.” She asks her classmate Kei, who thought they weren’t on good terms, and her friends Arisa, Umi, and Jiro join her. Their relationship changes over the course of the shoot as they experience the joy of creating together and experience infatuations and clear up past misunderstandings.
Last Hole 
ラストホール 「Rasuto Ho-ru」
Release Date: September 06th, 2024
Duration: 71 mins.
Director: Mitsuki Akiba
Writer: Mitsuki Akiba (Screenplay),
Starring: Mitsuki Akiba, Soichiro Tanaka, Yohta Kawase, Yuki Takao, Takuji Suzuki,
Website Twitter: @Lasthole_1209
Actor Mitsuki Akiba makes her directorial debut with this semi-autobiographical story of a young woman dealing with the loss of her father,
The film won the Kinemeister Award at the 17th Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival. Since it won an award at Tanabe-Benkei, it will be one of a number of that fest’s awardees to get screened at select cinemas over the next couple of months as part of the “Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival Selection 2024” programme.
Synopsis: A dancer named Atata stops dancing and when she realises that she has to face the death of her father, Yohei. She embarks upon a road trip with her childhood friend Sousuke, following a list of places written in a note left by Yohei. During their journey, the two find discover a new side to the man.