Gabu!! ☁️ ΘΔ

Probably not even that distant! Comparing it to other "Cinema"-type fonts, both this and Fontworks' New Cinema B share a surprisingly similar "闇", suggesting a stronger connection

Top to bottom: Kinema Font Lab's Cinema Calligraphy, DynacomWare's DFCinemaRin, Fontworks' FOT-NewCinemaB, Cinecaption

Cinecaption's (another "cinema"-styled font, distributed for free by its creator) website mentions that some of the glyphs are based on the notes that a different person published online, and that person basically says that those notes are them happening to catch a movie with handwritten subtitles on TV, recording it and then redrawing these. Considering that Fontworks' New Cinema is an "official" successor based on works of and approved by the original letterer Hideo Sato, I wouldn't be surprised if Kinema was traced from the movies he did subtitles for directly inspired by his works, maybe utilising similar techniques to the person who published their notes mentioned earlier.

Haven't actually encountered this one much outside of DP, but Latin character set of New Cinema is a certified instantly recognizable classic for sure! Even outside of Capcom and Konami games it keeps popping up, I remember seeing it in Y:LAD on in-universe designs and the most recent example would be Logiart Grimoire. In a very ironic twist of fate Deadly Premonition developers also chose it as the main subtitle font for the sequel, permanently muddying up the search results for people like me 😂

Somewhat close! According to the archived font pricing page, OpenType version of the font would've costed the buyer ¥39,800, which would roughly be $362 in 2005, assuming 1 USD = 110 JPY as that seems to be the average conversion rate during 2005.