(#映画マッチング本日公開) What is the story behind this trend in Social Media today?
25-09-2026
The hashtag marks the nationwide theatrical opening of the Japanese film Matching TRUE LOVE on September 25, 2026. It is a sequel to the 2024 suspense thriller Matching, written and directed by Eiji Uchida and starring Tao Tsuchiya as wedding planner Rinka Tadashima alongside Daisuke Sakuma as Tomu Nagayama.The original story followed Rinka after she joined a dating app at a colleague’s urging, only to encounter a disturbing match and a wave of murders targeting couples who had met through the same service. The new film picks up two years later. Rinka and Tomu have begun a relationship after surviving those events, but Tomu suddenly vanishes. Copycat killings appear, complete with white roses and an X carved into the victims’ faces. Two months afterward, Rinka joins the staff of a matching tour held at an isolated southern-island resort. The tour turns into a closed-off death game in which participants must prove “true love” or be killed. Tomu reappears on the island as the remaining guests’ hidden motives surface.The campaign has framed the picture as a larger-scale “love-survival thriller” that moves the action from an everyday dating app to a luxury resort turned prison. Promotional clips, character introductions, and comments from the returning leads and new cast members have circulated widely in the days leading up to opening, generating the surge of posts using the release-day hashtag.