Keitai Kareshi & Where are you? trailers
Keitai Kareshi
Trailer for Shinju Funabiki‘s Keitai Kareshi (literally “cell phone boyfriend”).
Plot: Mayumi suddenly commits suicide, leaving behind an email that simply states “...killed by boyfriend”. Her grief-stricken classmates, Satomi (Umika Kawashima) and Yuka (Aki Asakura) discover that Mayumi’s death may be linked to a cell phone dating simulation game called “Keitai Kareshi” and decide to investigate futher. Satomi searches through Mayumi’s cell phone and finds an app called “Keitai Kareshi: Riku”. Soon, strange things start happening around her. A girl named Eri (Nozomi Maeda) dies when she tries to take the game herself, and is left holding a cell phone displaying the message “Love Gauge: 0”. The mystery deepens when Satomi takes the cell phone of her old friend Kumi and sees the face of her high school crush, Naoto (Hideo Ishiguro) on the screen.
“Keitai Kareshi” is being jointly distributed by Gonzo and Synergy and will open in Japan on October 24, 2009.
“Where Are You?”
A trailer is finally out for Masahiro Kobayashi‘s “Where Are You?”, which premiered earlier this summer at the Locarno International Film Festival.
Kobayashi’s son, Yuto Kobayashi, stars as a down-on-his-luck 16-year-old named Ryo Kawai. Ryo grew up fatherless, and has been trying to make a living by working at a local convenience store ever since his mother was hospitalized with a prolonged illness. Unable to support himself on his meager earnings, he has to resort to sneaking money from the cash register and stealing rice balls to get by-a habit which eventually gets him fired.
Just when it seems things can’t get any worse, his mother dies and he’s stuck with a hefty bill for the hospital and funeral expenses. Obviously unable to pay, but determined to send his mother off himself, Ryo steals her corpse and places it in a small rowboat. After the makeshift funeral ceremony, Ryo heads off to Tokyo on a journey to meet his absentee father.
Distributor T-Joy will be releasing “Where Are You?” at Human Trust Cinema Shibuya on November 14, 2009 and Shinjuku Wald9 on November 28th.
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