On November 5, the official Japanese fan club of former MR. BIG singer Eric Martin and the official site of the film KIZUNA announced the cinemas showing it and the details of the screenings at which Eric Martin himself appears on stage. Starting at Uplink Kyoto on Friday, December 4, the screenings travel to eight cinemas in seven cities, Kyoto, Osaka, Fukuoka, Sendai, Kanazawa, Nagoya and Tokyo, and after each screening Eric Martin talks about the film and the forty-year bond with his Japanese fans. Tickets cost 2,500 yen, tax included, and are to go on sale at each cinema in turn from Saturday, November 14. Everyone attending gets a special clear file, and after the stage greeting, buyers of a goods set sold on the day only can shake hands with Eric Martin (not at KBC Cinema 1 and 2 in Fukuoka).

From Kyoto on December 4 to Tokyo on December 19 — the eight cinemas and times

The screenings with a stage greeting are, with the time each screening starts: Friday, December 4 at Uplink Kyoto, 19:30; Saturday, December 5 at Theatre Umeda in Osaka, 16:00; Tuesday, December 8 at KBC Cinema 1 and 2 in Fukuoka, an evening screening whose time is still to be announced; Friday, December 11 at Forum Sendai, 19:00; Saturday, December 12 at Cinemonde in Kanazawa, around 16:00 (planned); Sunday, December 13 at Cinema Skhole in Nagoya, around 16:00 (planned); and Saturday, December 19 at Uplink Kichijoji in Tokyo, 13:00, and at Human Trust Cinema Shibuya, 17:00.

The film's regular run starts on December 4 at Uplink Kyoto and Theatre Umeda, on December 11 at Forum Sendai, on December 12 at Cinema Skhole and on December 18 at Uplink Kichijoji. KBC Cinema 1 and 2, Cinemonde and Human Trust Cinema Shibuya show it at the event only.

Tickets at 2,500 yen, on sale cinema by cinema from November 14 — a clear file for everyone, and a handshake

Tickets for the event screenings cost 2,500 yen, tax included, and are to go on sale at each cinema in turn from Saturday, November 14. The film's official site says it will announce each cinema's sale date and how to buy in its news.

Everyone attending gets a special clear file. After the stage greeting, buyers of a goods set sold on the event day only can shake hands with Eric Martin; there is no handshake at KBC Cinema 1 and 2 in Fukuoka. What the set contains and what it costs are still to be announced, and the fan club says it is to go on sale in December.

The theme song, "I'll Be There Just For You", is out digitally from November 18 — its video is due on November 14

The film's theme song, "I'll Be There Just For You", sung by Eric Martin, is out digitally from Wednesday, November 18. His Japanese fan club introduces it as a new song, and its music video is due on Saturday, November 14.

According to Sony Music's page for the album, a song of the same title, the Voice of Youth JAPAN charity song Eric Martin took part in, was a bonus track on the limited first pressing of the best-of MR. VOCALIST COMPLETE BEST, released on November 27, 2024.

The fifth trailer is the "MR.VOCALIST, a special connection with Japan" edition — and a world premiere in Kobe on December 3

Also on November 5, the fifth trailer, the "MR.VOCALIST, a special connection with Japan" edition, went up on Eric Martin's official Japanese YouTube channel. In it Eric Martin talks about what MR.VOCALIST, his series of albums covering Japanese favourites with English lyrics, changed for him, and what it means to him. Counting the main trailer of July 3, it is the fifth.

KIZUNA is a documentary about MR. BIG's story, why Japan has kept loving them, and the forty years of friendship with Japanese fans, and it opens across Japan in stages from Friday, December 4. Saimon Kawagishi directs, Katsuya Kobayashi narrates, and Tak Matsumoto (B'z), Eric Martin's bandmate in TMG, is among those who appear. It runs 106 minutes and is distributed by Uplink.

On Thursday, December 3, the day before it opens, the world premiere at Chicken George in Kobe is followed by an acoustic mini live and a talk by Eric Martin (doors 18:00, screening 18:30); tickets are on general sale. Also in December come Acoustic BIG Night at Fukuoka Toyota Hall Scala Espacio on the 9th and at DIAMOND HALL in Nagoya on the 15th, and KIZUNA Symphony -40th Anthology-, with the Tokyo Starlight Orchestra, at Meguro Persimmon Hall (Large Hall) on the 21st.

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