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“Part-Time Detective” is a Japanese TV drama series broadcast as part of the “Women, Love, and Mystery” programming block, co-produced by TV Tokyo and Bs Japan between 2002 and 2004. It consists of two feature-length episodes, with Keiko Matsuzaka playing the titular lead in both. Within Miike’s filmography, this is certainly one of his lesser-known titles—a notable fact given the breadth of his oeuvre.

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Noriko Yamada, an ordinary housewife, lives with her husband Kazuo, who works at Yotsuba Bank, along with their son and daughter. Kazuo’s bank is undergoing a merger, and as his superiors push him toward early retirement, the family faces financial hardship. Noriko begins searching for work, but her age and lack of job experience, having been a housewife all her life, make it nearly impossible. After a series of disappointments, she encounters Hibino, the young president of the detective agency “K&d Research,...

The Japanese film site Cinema Today has posted a new, more succinct edit of the theatrical trailer for Bokutachi no Play Ball, a new Little League movie directed by Junichi Mimura and filmed largely on location in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, home of the Little League World Series.

13-year-old Yuki Kohara stars as Kyuji, the son of a professional baseball player named Tsuneo (Eisaku Yoshida). Because of his father being on a Major League team, Kyuji lives in the Us and plays Little League baseball with his best friend, Randy. However, Tsuneo injures his shoulder and is demoted to the minor leagues where he’s shuffled between teams. Instead of moving around the Us, Tsuneo’s wife Kanako (Michiko Hada) decides it would be best to take Kyuji home to Japan for the time-being. Before he leaves, he makes a pact with Randy to meet up at the Little League World Series the following year.