Welcome to the second of three trailer posts this week.
You can find the first one here and the last one follows tomorrow.
What are the next bunch of films for this week?
Dare yori mo tsuyoku dakishimete 
誰よりもつよく抱きしめて 「Dare yori mo tsuyoku dakishimete」
Release Date: February 07th, 2025
Duration: 124 mins.
Director: Eiji Uchida
Writer: Lee Na-won (Screenplay) Fuyuki Shindo (Original Story)
Starring: Ryoki Miyama, Shiori Kubo, Chansung, Yukiya Kitamura, Rin Nagata, Moeka Hoshi,
Website Twitter: @dareyorimo_eiga IMDB
Director Eiji Uchida started out with indies like Greatful Dead and Love and Other Cults but has been more mainstream as of Midnight Swan and Offbeat Cops. Here he adapts Fuyuki Shindo’s romantic novel and has idols in the lead role.
Synopsis: Set in the seaside town of Kamakura, we follow Mizushima, an aspiring picture book writer, and his girlfriend Kirimoto, a bookstore assistant, who live together and have been a couple since high school but find themselves separated by his obsessive-compulsive disorder and fear of germs. He is unable to touch anything, even her. Having had enough, he seeks treatment for his disorder. This is when he meets a woman named Chiharu at a joint counselling session. Suffering from the same thing, they connect and find happiness. Meanwhile, Kirimoto meets a man named Lee…
Sekai seifuku yameta 
世界征服やめた 「Sekai seifuku yameta」
Release Date: February 07th, 2025
Duration: 51 mins.
Director: Takumi Kitamura
Writer: Takumi Kitamura (Screenplay) To Fukashigi/Wonderboy (Original Song)
Starring: Riku Hagiwara, Hinata Todo, Arata Iura,
Website Twitter: @sekaiseifuku_M
Takumi Kitamura, actor and singer who appears in Tokyo Revengers, makes his directional debut with this short film that was inspired by a song by poetry rapper “Wonderboy,” who passed away in 2011 at the age of 24. This same-named song which rails against losing youthful hope and becoming a boring adult was what inspired the film.
Synopsis: Kanata is introverted and has the same routine every day. Due to this, he feels despair, as if he is not useful and cannot change a thing. Hoshino, his cheerful and aloof colleague, thinks of things in black-and-white terms and makes a decision that radically changes their days.
MY MOTHER NEVER CRY
Release Date: February 07th, 2025
Duration: 122 mins.
Director: Koji Uehara
Writer: Koji Uehara (Screenplay)
Starring: Yu Machida, Hitomi Uneda, Nobuaki Kaneko, YOU, YOUNG DAIS, Kyosuke Yabe, Kirara Inori, Mitsuki Moriyama,
This is the second feature Koji Uehara. He is described as a street icon from Osaka who is supported by many young people, not only for his music but also for his fashion and way of life, from the underground scene to the mainstream. He has previously made the feature Before the Rainbow Falls, which was released in March 2022.
Synopsis: The film depicts with stunning visual beauty the life of a yakuza man who has risen to power through violence, his relationship with his family, and his struggle to keep going in the face of conflict.
INTER::FACE Chino kikai hanzai koso-bu namae no uta faith 
INTER::FACE 知能機械犯罪公訴部 faith 「INTER::FACE Chino kikai hanzai koso-bu faith 」
Release Date: February 07th, 2025
Duration: N/A
Director: Takumi Shimomukai
Writer: Takumi Shimomukai (Screenplay),
Starring: Marina Yoshimi, Maeko Oyama, Takashi Irie, Kanji Tsuda, Kazuki Sawatani,
Website Twitter: @CenterLine2027
Part 3 of the “INTER::FACE Intelligent Machine Crime Prosecution Department” trilogy, a sequel to the near-future suspense “Center Line,” which depicts the course of a trial to prove an AI’s intent to kill. It follows Part 1, which was released at the start of 2025, and Part 2 which came out in February.
Writer/director Takumi Shimomukai is an active software engineer and if you go to the site, you can see him discuss technology and the film’s themes.
Overview of the project:
Synopsis: A former mayor Shimazaki is suspected of bribery involving the transfer of 15 million yen in the electronic currency. Things take a turn when the person who initiated the transfer is found dead and, in his stead, there seems to be an AI…