Unfortunately the closest theater showing for me was in a different state over 5 hours away. Does anyone know…
I expect there will be, but not till after its home release in China, and that won’t be till some months after its cinema release there, which was only on 28 April. So you’re looking at around six months from now. You could ask (if you haven’t already) if the local distributor knows anything – which, out of what I know, is https://wellgousa.com for US/CA, https://www.trinitycineasia.com for UK/IE. One could also ask them and cinemas about getting cinema screenings closer.
However, before you book a ship, if it has a UK/Ireland release, I’d be surprised if it doesn’t have a US/Canada one around the same time. But, for now, the best one can do to find out if and when it will have one is to search for the title every now and then to see if something has been announced.
The accounts of the movie’s sales agent https://www.charades.eu will mention when international releases are officially announced, though they’ll be mixed in with news about the agent’s other titles.
As this is a co-production with France, it has a page on Unifrance at https://en.unifrance.org/movie/54400/small-slow-but-steady – those usually have information about international releases, though there’s no such section on that page as of now.
It’s by Keiichiro HIRANO; a search reveals that other books by him (which I recognise the titles of due to movies based on them) have been published in English, but not this one.
Predictably, it has been released in other Western languages, at least French, as there’s a book titled “Compléter les blancs”.
It’s now out on general release in Northern America, though at only very few locations so far, listed at https://www.kimstim.com/film/plan-75/The…
I can’t remember how I first read KimStim was distributing this… It might have been an article about which distributors had licensed the movie in “Variety”, “Deadline” or the like. Or I might have noticed it on KimStim’s site when looking at it because of a different movie.
There are various ways to find out if a movie is licensed for where you are and by whom. One can search for the title (plus the director’s name, if the title is quite generic) and “international sales” to see if there are articles about it and if the movie’s sales agent has a site and social accounts with news of the movie showing at festivals and being released around the world.
For new Japanese movies, one can often find out who the sales agent is from the movie’s page on https://jfdb.jp/en/ but not everything is on there.
Since “PLAN 75” is a co-production with France, it also has a page on Unifrance’s database at https://en.unifrance.org/movie/54896/plan-75 – that specifies the distributors, release dates and titles for various countries under “International releases”, but it’s not always complete (there’s no mention of KimStim having the US rights to this, though it’s already out from them there).
Hayley SCANLON’s blog at https://windowsonworlds.com and social accounts (linked to in the sidebar) mention US/CA and UK/IE releases and festival screenings of East Asian movies, so I’ve probably read about “PLAN 75” on those to some extent. Her reviews are also good for giving cultural and historical context.
http://www.midnighteye.com remains a great resource about films from before it ended, and its Facebook Page still occasionally posts news of international availability.
https://genkinahito.wordpress.com is very thorough in listing the Japanese features released in Japan each week and selected for festivals internationally, though I find that a bit too thorough in relation to how much is relevant to me.
Some distributors release East Asian movies frequently, so they can be worth following on social media or occasionally checking on. In Northern America, Eleven Arts, Film Movement, Kani Releasing, KimStim and (in Canada only) Momo Films release a lot of Japanese live-action. Arbelos, Dekanalog, Fathom Events, Grasshopper Film, Janus Films, Kino Lorber, Magnolia Pictures, NEON and Well Go USA sometimes do (and Films We Like and Sphere Films specifically in Canada). Arrow Films release older ones on disc and online but stopped doing cinema releases in UK/IE and I don’t think ever did in US/CA.
If you’re interested in Korean and Chinese-language movies of this bent, Artsploitation Films, CineAsia, the Cinema Guild, MUBI, Niu Vision and Strand Releasing release those, but not so much Japanese ones.
I’m in the UK, but it’s difficult to not find out about US releases when looking for info about Japanese movies in English and be jealous of what gets released there (though the UK gets at least some video releases the US doesn’t).
Eureka Entertainment, Third Window Films and Radiance Films release in UK/IE, Chameleon Films in AU/NZ, Midori-Impuls in Germany and Spectrum Films in France, but they may be of interest for releasing Japanese movies with English subs on Blu-ray Disc or DVD that aren’t available in Northern America (if you get a region-changeable player or Blu-ray.com confirms the disc is region-free, as all those countries are region B by default for BD, whereas US/CA is region A – as is Japan, so the only obstacle to importing from there is the prices).
For now, at (LGBT+) film festivals, it seems. As well as the festivals mentioned in earlier comments, it will premiere in the UK tomorrow at the Queer East Festival in London: https://queereast.org.uk/film/about-us-but-not-about-us/
It might tour to other cities in the UK in the coming autumn and winter.
It’s played at various festivals since its premiere in Venice last year, and it’s currently out on general release in a few cinemas in Northern America: https://www.kimstim.com/film/stonewalling/
I don’t know anything about an Indonesian release, however.
The distributor will release it on streaming platforms later. For people that do live near enough somewhere that will be playing it and need to see it in a cinema to be immersed in it and not distracted by things at home (yes, I’m one of the latter and hope to be one of the former), it’s much better that it’s in cinemas first and not going directly to streaming (though I know that’s relatively few people in the English-speaking West).
Is this a true story? Still waiting for it to release and Eng Sub
It’s science fiction, for now.
It premiered in the Cannes Film Festival in May 2022, so it must have had English and French subtitles then, as movies are required to have both to play in it.
It’s now been playing in a few cinemas in Northern America since 21 April this year; https://www.kimstim.com/film/plan-75/ has the list (and the distributor will later have info on the home release there).
It’s now out with English subtitles in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom. https://cmc-pictures.com/hachiko/ has links to cinemas playing it.
Int release schedule:https://twitter.com/cnyibo/status/1650535352422252544?s=46&t=h2IUaPmOQT99POxY7dR5ywhttps://twitter.com/cnyibo/status/1650535354099961857?s=46&t=h2IUaPmOQT99POxY7dR5yw
For the UK, the distributor’s web page at https://trinitycineasia.com/in-cinemas/born-to-fly/ has a list of locations confirmed so far and it will be updated with more. Some UK cinemas don’t confirm times for the next Friday–Thursday till the Wednesday evening before, so check then or any time on Thursday to be able to see all the locations and times.
It’s now out in cinemas in the UK (a rare Filipino movie to get such a release). https://www.conic.film/films/leonor has a list of locations; some of those listed under “Past screenings” are still playing it (at least, it still has a screening in Bradford).
Woo Bin is hot. He won some award from this movie. Unfortunately he left the acting career after married and have…
If you mean “Departures” (Chia6 didn’t include the “-s” on the end originally, which would explain why sm0g wasn’t able to find it), that’s widely available online in many countries; https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/16804/watch can help with that.
If it’s not available online where you are, there might be a Blu-ray Disc or DVD release there, or one with a suitable region code you can import from those listed at https://www.blu-ray.com/Departures/34119/#Releases
That YouTube upload doesn’t look official, so I’d avoid it if you can find any better option.
However, before you book a ship, if it has a UK/Ireland release, I’d be surprised if it doesn’t have a US/Canada one around the same time. But, for now, the best one can do to find out if and when it will have one is to search for the title every now and then to see if something has been announced.
The accounts of the movie’s sales agent https://www.charades.eu will mention when international releases are officially announced, though they’ll be mixed in with news about the agent’s other titles.
As this is a co-production with France, it has a page on Unifrance at https://en.unifrance.org/movie/54400/small-slow-but-steady – those usually have information about international releases, though there’s no such section on that page as of now.
Outside there, the Japanese DVD has English subtitles (and is only for region 2) and is available used at great expense from https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E4%BA%8C%E5%8D%81%E6%89%8D%E3%81%AE%E5%BE%AE%E7%86%B1-DVD-%E8%A2%B4%E7%94%B0%E5%90%89%E5%BD%A6/dp/B00018GYBU/ref=sr_1_2?__mk_ja_JP=%E3%82%AB%E3%82%BF%E3%82%AB%E3%83%8A&crid=1X84QD2RJ4EYN&keywords=%E4%BA%8C%E5%8D%81%E6%89%8D%E3%81%AE%E5%BE%AE%E7%86%B1&qid=1683088237&rnid=2321267051&s=dvd&sprefix=%E4%BA%8C%E5%8D%81%E6%89%8D%E3%81%AE%E5%BE%AE%E7%86%B1%2Caps%2C378&sr=1-2&language=en_US and https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E4%BA%8C%E5%8D%81%E6%89%8D%E3%81%AE%E5%BE%AE%E7%86%B1-DVD-%E8%A2%B4%E7%94%B0%E5%90%89%E5%BD%A6/dp/B00005YUYO/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_ja_JP=%E3%82%AB%E3%82%BF%E3%82%AB%E3%83%8A&crid=1X84QD2RJ4EYN&keywords=%E4%BA%8C%E5%8D%81%E6%89%8D%E3%81%AE%E5%BE%AE%E7%86%B1&qid=1683088237&rnid=2321267051&s=dvd&sprefix=%E4%BA%8C%E5%8D%81%E6%89%8D%E3%81%AE%E5%BE%AE%E7%86%B1%2Caps%2C378&sr=1-1
The presumably region-1-locked and English-subtitled US DVD is available similarly expensively from https://www.amazon.com/Slight-Fever-20-Year-Old/dp/B000BCE9EA/ref=tmm_dvd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1683088404&sr=1-1-catcorr
Predictably, it has been released in other Western languages, at least French, as there’s a book titled “Compléter les blancs”.
There are various ways to find out if a movie is licensed for where you are and by whom. One can search for the title (plus the director’s name, if the title is quite generic) and “international sales” to see if there are articles about it and if the movie’s sales agent has a site and social accounts with news of the movie showing at festivals and being released around the world.
For new Japanese movies, one can often find out who the sales agent is from the movie’s page on https://jfdb.jp/en/ but not everything is on there.
Since “PLAN 75” is a co-production with France, it also has a page on Unifrance’s database at https://en.unifrance.org/movie/54896/plan-75 – that specifies the distributors, release dates and titles for various countries under “International releases”, but it’s not always complete (there’s no mention of KimStim having the US rights to this, though it’s already out from them there).
Hayley SCANLON’s blog at https://windowsonworlds.com and social accounts (linked to in the sidebar) mention US/CA and UK/IE releases and festival screenings of East Asian movies, so I’ve probably read about “PLAN 75” on those to some extent. Her reviews are also good for giving cultural and historical context.
http://www.midnighteye.com remains a great resource about films from before it ended, and its Facebook Page still occasionally posts news of international availability.
https://asianmoviepulse.com https://www.easternkicks.com and https://www.fareastfilms.com post reviews that can be the first I know of something being released somewhere with English subs or playing in a festival or season that might be accessible online up to worldwide.
https://www.asianpopupcinema.org https://japansociety.org/film/ https://jccc.on.ca/films https://jff.jpf.go.jp http://jffla.org https://watch.nyjcf.com https://www.sakkafilms.com https://www.shortshorts.org/index-en.php and https://todoifilms.com make some curated movies available online and post news about Japanese cinema generally.
https://genkinahito.wordpress.com is very thorough in listing the Japanese features released in Japan each week and selected for festivals internationally, though I find that a bit too thorough in relation to how much is relevant to me.
Some distributors release East Asian movies frequently, so they can be worth following on social media or occasionally checking on. In Northern America, Eleven Arts, Film Movement, Kani Releasing, KimStim and (in Canada only) Momo Films release a lot of Japanese live-action. Arbelos, Dekanalog, Fathom Events, Grasshopper Film, Janus Films, Kino Lorber, Magnolia Pictures, NEON and Well Go USA sometimes do (and Films We Like and Sphere Films specifically in Canada). Arrow Films release older ones on disc and online but stopped doing cinema releases in UK/IE and I don’t think ever did in US/CA.
If you’re interested in Korean and Chinese-language movies of this bent, Artsploitation Films, CineAsia, the Cinema Guild, MUBI, Niu Vision and Strand Releasing release those, but not so much Japanese ones.
I’m in the UK, but it’s difficult to not find out about US releases when looking for info about Japanese movies in English and be jealous of what gets released there (though the UK gets at least some video releases the US doesn’t).
Eureka Entertainment, Third Window Films and Radiance Films release in UK/IE, Chameleon Films in AU/NZ, Midori-Impuls in Germany and Spectrum Films in France, but they may be of interest for releasing Japanese movies with English subs on Blu-ray Disc or DVD that aren’t available in Northern America (if you get a region-changeable player or Blu-ray.com confirms the disc is region-free, as all those countries are region B by default for BD, whereas US/CA is region A – as is Japan, so the only obstacle to importing from there is the prices).
Check cinema websites from the Monday evening before the release date for times.
It might tour to other cities in the UK in the coming autumn and winter.
I don’t know anything about an Indonesian release, however.
The distributor will release it on streaming platforms later. For people that do live near enough somewhere that will be playing it and need to see it in a cinema to be immersed in it and not distracted by things at home (yes, I’m one of the latter and hope to be one of the former), it’s much better that it’s in cinemas first and not going directly to streaming (though I know that’s relatively few people in the English-speaking West).
It premiered in the Cannes Film Festival in May 2022, so it must have had English and French subtitles then, as movies are required to have both to play in it.
It’s now been playing in a few cinemas in Northern America since 21 April this year; https://www.kimstim.com/film/plan-75/ has the list (and the distributor will later have info on the home release there).
It’ll be released with English subtitles in cinemas in Northern America, Australia, New Zealand and the UK on 28 April, according to the post of the distributor for those countries at https://www.facebook.com/cmcpix2017/posts/pfbid02K7rDtporKg2UeNjgQaeetpJY38GrC9HWfEVuntyAdfF22WKc99Jw7GhyWoYs4GoSl
It might be released in other countries by other distributors at other times, but the above is what I know.
According to https://fb.watch/k2ByNNq-Ul/ Kiwi CHOW is visiting two of the first-weekend screenings.
According to https://www.facebook.com/impactfilmsindia1/posts/pfbid02MAJujHaokg611TQm5dfPQshvd9j4eW1zr6LjnLBVny2jJP777nfN6RGhJchhnU1hl it went direct to VOD around the end of last year.
If it’s not available online where you are, there might be a Blu-ray Disc or DVD release there, or one with a suitable region code you can import from those listed at https://www.blu-ray.com/Departures/34119/#Releases
That YouTube upload doesn’t look official, so I’d avoid it if you can find any better option.