Life is good with more Jap films! :)
Trailer | Climber's High @ GV
Releasing 26 Mar 09.
The lead actor is the same guy who acted as the genius Mathematician in Suspect X.
A story of a press reporter who finds the meaning of life through his experiences as a reporter and mountain climbing. On August 12, 1985, the worst plane crash in the world occurred in Gunma Prefecture. Kazumasa Yuki, a reporter of a local newspaper who happened to have planned to challenge Mount Tanigawa with one of his colleagues on the day, is assigned to take charge of reporting the accident. In the struggle to cover the chaotic accident scene, he is faced with the significance of life and family ties. Twenty years later, when he is going to retire, Yuki climbs Mount Tanigawa to look back his life. Based on a story by Yokoyama Hideo.
Trailer | Tokyo Sonata @ Picturehouse
No specific release date yet but coming soon @ Picturehouse.
Every family has its secrets...A portrait of a seemingly ordinary Japanese family. The father who abruptly loses his job conceals the truth from his family; the eldest son in college hardly returns home; the youngest son furtively take piano lessons without telling his parents; and the mother, who knows deep down that her role is to keep the family together, cannot find the will to do so. From the exterior, all is normal and the same. But somehow, a single, unforeseeable chasm has appeared within the family, only to spread ever so quietly and quickly to disintegrate them.