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Reiko Kujirai (Riho Yoshioka), who works at a real estate company in Kowloon, Hong Kong, secretly has feelings for her senior at work, Hajime Kudō (Kōshi Mizukami). He knows the city inside out and takes Reiko out to his favourite places, but the distance between them never closes. Nevertheless, Reiko makes other new friends and is content with her daily life in Kowloon. One day, Reiko and Hajime stop by a coffee shop and Thao Nguyen (Shuntaro Yanagi), a waiter, mistakes her for Hajime’s girlfriend. Reiko then happens to find a photo of Hajime with his girlfriend who looked just like her. Is there a past memory she cannot recall, the identity of her other self, and a huge mystery hidden in the city of Kowloon? As the past and present intersect, love reveals the secrets… [Sources: Cinema Today and Crunchyroll]

A live-action adaptation of the manga by Jun Mayuzuki,...

The official website for the upcoming live-action movie adaptation of Kowloon Generic Romance , a mystery romance manga series by Jun Mayuzuki ( After the Rain ), released a main trailer today. In the end of the clip, it is announced that the movie is set to open in Japan on August 29, 2025. Kowloon Generic Romance Main Trailer The trailer also features the film's theme song "Haze" performed by five-member Japanese rock band Kroi , known for their theme song works for Bucchigiri?! and Sakamoto Days among anime fans. "We created the music while keeping in mind the 'nostalgia' and 'oriental atmosphere' that we felt when we checked the original manga and live-action footage," said the band. "We especially like the streets of Kowloon in this film and imagined the smell and humidity of the city, and decided on the sound and lyrics with the feeling of being in the city. We hope you enjoy...

The official website for the upcoming live-action movie adaptation of Kowloon Generic Romance , a mystery romance manga series by Jun Mayuzuki ( After the Rain ), released a teaser trailer and visual today. The site also confirmed that the movie is set to open in Japan in August 2025. Kowloon Generic Romance Live-Action Movie Teaser Trailer The teaser visual shows the movie's two main characters, Reiko Kujirai played by Riho Yoshioka (Hitomi Saito in Anime Supremacy! ) and Hajime Kudou by Koshi Mizukami (Akira Sakuma in Till We Meet Again on the Lily Hill ), standing on a rooftop. The taglines read: "Love reveals the secrets—." and "A mystery love romance where the past and present intersect." Teaser visual Related: Kowloon Generic Romance Manga Gets TV Anime, Live-Action Movie in 2025 Chihiro Ikeda, who recently worked on a live-action film adaptation of Makoto Ojiro's Insomniacs after school manga in 2023, serves as director on a screenplay...

Shô Miyake’s All the Long Nights is a film about small things: decency, kindness, why people help each other out, how those acts can inspire others. The first character we meet is Misa (Mone Kamishiraishi), a sensitive type who suffers from premenstrual syndrome. In the opening scene, this causes Misa to lose her cool at work, and while the situation is smoothed over, she quits out of shame. Leaving the city, she lands a gig in a suburban company, assembling astronomical sets, and meets Takatoshi (Hokuto Matsumura), a young, panic attack-prone man who recently left a job under similar circumstances. After an initial misunderstanding, their orbits align into something that looks like love but never skews romantic.

If that all sounds a bit saccharine, bear with it: in Miyake’s previous film, Small, Slow But Steady, the director took the autobiography of Keiko Ogasawara, a hearing-impaired female boxer, and...

Nobody is broken in Shô Miyake’s films; nobody is quite beyond repair. But over the course of his last few features, the Japanese director has centered characters who are at at least mildly sprained, and trying hard to get by on hope and a homemade splint. In his previous movie, “Small Slow But Steady” — a title that incidentally could be a manifesto for Miyake’s soft, low-key style — a deaf female amateur boxer battled self-doubt and the looming closure of her beloved gym. And his new film, “All the Long Nights” offers a similar kind of balm, this time focusing on a young woman whose major challenge comes from debilitating Pms. It’s an affliction rarely described with this much compassion, when it is mentioned at all outside its regular context as the lazy punchline to a thousand sexist jokes.

Here it is treated with a sensitivity that does...