Welcome to the second trailer post of the week.
You can find the first part here and the last one comes tomorrow.
So, last week I wrote that there were around 69 new entries for February last year and around 45 the year before. For February 2025, there were 52 Japanese films put into the cinema ecosystem.
We’re now approaching March and so how many films were covered in the past: 65 releases in 2023 and 32 in 2024.
What are the rest of the trailers for the films released this week?
My Beloved Stranger 
知らないカノジョ 「Shiranai kanojo」
Release Date: February 28th, 2025
Duration: 121 mins.
Director: Takahiro Miki
Writer: Keisuke Fukutani, Yuichi Toyone (Screenplay)
Starring: Kento Nakajima, Milet, Kento Kiratani, Wan Marui, Yurika Nakamura, Jun Fubuki, Hidekazu Mashima, Norito Yashima,
Website Twitter: @shiranai_kanojo JFDB IMDB
Director Takahiro Miki became big off adaptations of manga like Solanin (2010) and We Were There 1 and 2 (both 2012) and has continued for over a decade working in this vein. His latest is based on the French film Love at Second Sight (2019, IMDB) and features the singer Milet.
Synopsis: Riku and Minami fell in love at first sight and got married quickly while still in university. Eight years later, Riku has achieved his dreams of becoming a novelist with the support of Minami, who has given up her dreams of becoming a singer. One morning Riku awakens to find Minami is gone and he is no longer a novelist but a member of editorial staff at a literary magazine. When he next sees Riku, she’s a successful singer who has no recollection of him. Riku figures out that he is in an alternate reality and tries to regain his original life and make the now-successful Minami fall in love with him again.
Sumino Hayato Documentary Film Uncertain Trail 
角野隼斗ドキュメンタリーフィルム 不確かな軌跡 「Sumino Hayato Dokyumentari-y Fi-rumu Futashikana Kiseki」
Release Date: February 28th, 2025
Duration: 106 mins.
Director: Kaoru Mochizuki
Writer: N/A
Starring: Hayato Sumino
Website Twitter: @bsfuji_event
Synopsis: Pianist Hayato Sumino gets a documentary that followed him for three years. He got his start in music from his mother teaching him and went on to study at the University of Tokyo’s prestigious science course. He has won numerous awards and has one million followers on YouTube.
REQUIEM aru sakkyokka no monogatari 
REQUIEM ある作曲家の物語 「REQUIEM aru sakkyokka no monogatari」
Release Date: February 28th, 2025
Duration: 106 mins.
Director: Yugo Kanno
Writer: Kairi Usaki (Screenplay)
Starring: Yuta Hiraoka, Reika Sakurai, Kentaro Yasui, Kei-chan, Yuka Sekikawa, Yuma Ueji, Masaya Kato,
Website Twitter: @REQUIEM_movie
Yugo Kanno, composer on Psycho-Pass (2012), Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (from Stardust Crusaders), directs this, his second film, which was screened at the Yokohama International Film Festival 2024 and features a story about a composer.
The film stars Yuta Hiraoka (Swing Girls (2004) and Nana (2005)) and Reika Sakurai, a first generation member of the idol group Nogizaka46.
Synopsis: A successful composer named Takumi is haunted by visions of his best friend who passed away ten years ago from an incurable disease. Before his death, his friend asked Takumi but the composer’s relationship with a certain woman has left him emotionally scarred and creatively stuck. His desperation grows when a trusted assistant is caught up in a crime and Takumi only has the support of Sae, the editor-in-chief of a magazine…
TM NETWORK Carry on the Memories Mittsu no kosei to hitotsu no omoi 
TM NETWORK Carry on the Memories 3つの個性と一つの想い 「TM NETWORK Carry on the Memories Mittsu no kosei to hitotsu no omoi」
Release Date: February 28th, 2025
Duration: 121 mins.
Director: Yu-ya HARA
Writer: Kairi Usaki (Screenplay)
Starring: TM NETWORK: Tetsuya Komuro, Takashi Utsunomiya, Naoto Kine,
Website Twitter: @tmnetwork_2014
Synopsis: This is a documentary about the three-member music unit TM NETWORK (City Hunter end theme Get Wild), which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2024, which is when they embarked on three national tours which drew a total of 170,000 people for a total of 40 shows. The film closely follows 31 performances from Days 10 to 40, and condenses 300 hours of their journey. (source)
Aldnoah.Zero [Re+] 
アルドノア・ゼロ（Re+） 「Arudonoa Zero (Re+)」
Release Date: February 28th, 2025
Duration: 90 mins
Director: Ei Aoki
Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama (Series Composition), Gen Urobuchi (Original Story),
Starring: Kensho Ono (Slaine Troyard), Natsuki Hanae (Inaho Kaizuka,), (Sora Amamiya (Asseylum Vers Allusia), Minako Komatsu (Inko Amifumi), Ai Kayano (Darzana Magbaredge),
Animation Production: A-1 Pictures, TROYCA
Website Twitter: @aldnoahzero ANN MAL
Synopsis: This is a compilation film made up of footage from the original 2014-15 TV anime with the addition of a new episode which takes place after the last episode of the TV series, nine months after the end of the war between Earth and Mars.
Shinran: Jinei no Mokuteki 
親鸞 人生の目的 「Shinran: Jinei no Mokuteki」
Release Date: February 28th, 2025
Duration: 104 mins
Director: Hiroshi Aoyama
Writer: Hiroshi Aoyama, Kiyoto Wada, Takatora Shiomi (Screenplay), Kentetsu Takamori (Original Story),
Starring: Ryotaro Sugi (Shinran), Takahiro Sakurai (Shinran (Young Man), Hiroshi Naka (Hinen), Eri Senda, Daisuke Hirakawa,
Animation Production: Aurochs
Website Twitter: @movie_tannisho ANN MAL
This is an anime adaptation of the story of the life of Japanese Buddhist monk Shinran.
According to Anime News Network, this is the third film in a series, with the first film being Naze Ikiru: Rennyo Shounin to Yoshizaki Enjou from 2016 and a sequel in 2019. Anyway, both are based on a Buddhist story by Kentetsu Takamori (source) and this book was published in English under the title Unlocking TANNISHO: Shinran’s Words on the Pure Land Path.
From 1992 to 1999, AIC produced Sekai no Hikari: Shinran Seijin, a six-part original video anime series about Shinran.
Synopsis: A historical entertainment film that depicts the life of Japanese Buddhist monk Shinran, the founder of the Japanese independent True Pure Land sect of Buddhism, and it is set about 850 years ago, in the turbulent times from the end of the Heian period to the Kamakura period and it looks like it deals with his relationship with a princess.