Hirokazu Kore-eda will direct Arashi documentary, Prime Video announces Japanese film list

When Prime Video Japan announced its new local content schedule in September, it placed a documentary about Arashi in a prominent position.The platform confirmed that Kore-eda Hirokazu will direct this work. The camera will follow the group's farewell tour of the five major arenas and record the process before and after the performance.For viewers who are familiar with Lan, this is a very specific message, and the film has already been given a global release date.

Arashi embarks on this tour after taking a hiatus from group activities for about six years.Public reports mentioned that the documentary will go behind the scenes of the tour, focusing on this farewell trip to the five major arenas.The available information does not reveal the complete interview list, nor does it provide any advance information on which old images will be used, so there is no official basis for the statements related to the members' personal content.

Hirokazu Kore-eda is the director of this film.Kohei Imaka and Asami Sunada from his production team will participate in the production as directors.The platform announced the division of creative work this time, but did not release a trailer or clips.What the audience can currently confirm is that the film has entered official release arrangements, rather than staying in the conceptual stage.

The documentary is scheduled to be released to Prime Video users around the world on December 15.The report also confirmed that Arashi’s final tour performance at the Tokyo Dome will be released on the platform in the form of a concert video on December 21.The two works are less than a week apart. The former focuses on behind-the-scenes records, while the latter corresponds to the Tokyo Dome scene on May 31.

In addition to these two new contents, Prime Video will successively launch Jiubu Lan’s historical concert works starting from September 15th.Instead of updating them all on the same day, the platform adopts a sequential approach.Audiences who want to review the stages at different stages can pay attention to the specific release date of each film on the site.

This round of releases also reveals Prime Video’s investment direction in Japan.Gaurav Gandhi, head of Asia Pacific, said that the platform will double its investment in Japanese original content in the next two years.The film list covers dramas, movies, variety shows, animations, sports and documentaries, and the Lan project is included in the content layout for young audiences.

The platform believes that the preferences of Japanese audiences are distributed in different genres, so the film list does not only focus on a single category.The head of the Japanese team said that original live-action series are still the focus, and at the same time, different audiences will be served through cooperative channels and types of content.The combination of Arashi documentaries and concert videos also brings music-related content to the core of this update.

Among the contents disclosed this time, there are also many adaptation projects from comics, novels and light novels, and some have already marked their launch plans in 2027 or 2028.Compared with these works that are still waiting for a long period of time, Lan's two new films have been given a December schedule, and the information is much clearer.

The official Chinese title of the documentary has not yet been reliably confirmed, so this article does not translate or replace the official title.The time points that you can directly pay attention to at this stage are the historical concert online on September 15th, the documentary online on December 15th, and the Tokyo Dome concert video on December 21st.More key visuals, trailers and film length information will still have to wait for subsequent releases from Prime Video.

The collaboration between Hirokazu Kore-eda and Arashi is now on the watchable schedule.For the group’s audience, there will be a new behind-the-scenes video at the end of the year, and they can also catch up on old performances on the same platform.The content confirmed by Prime Video Japan’s release of this film list is clear enough here.