The financing and co-production market will take place at Tokyo's Roppongi Hills complex at the same time as the TIFFCOM contents market and the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF).
Japan accounts for the largest number of projects - 13 in all - including Ugetu from Shinji Aoyama who recently competed at Venice with Sad Vaction. The selection also include three Japanese co-productions with South Korea, Taiwanese producer Michelle Yeh and Thai director Nonzee Nimibutr.
Hong Kong is represented with new projects from Pang Ho-Cheung, whose Isabella competed at Berlin in 2006, and hit-maker Vincent Kok who is bringing a comedy about vampire chickens, V For Vampire, to Tokyo.
The list also includes two projects from leading South Korean producers Eugene Lee (A Bittersweet Life) and Lee Tae-hun (Sympathy For Lady Vengeance).
Projects from South-East Asia include Indonesian filmmaker Nia Dinata's Chants Of Lotus and The Fortuneteller from Filipino director Paolo Herras. The selection also features projects from the US, Russia and Italy.
France is also well represented with projects from Alain Resnais and Claude Miller and producers Marin Karmitz and Catherine Dussart, who is working with Cambodian director Rithy Panh.
Tokyo Project Gathering 2007
1. 3 Cities Of The End Of The World (Taiwan)
Prod: Chen Wei. Dirs: Lo Ging-Zin, Yoh Komaya, Yao Hung-Yi
2. 65 Roses (Taiwan/Japan)
Prod: Michelle Yeh. Dir: Leste Chen
3. A Frozen Flower (South Korea)
Prod: Tae Hun Lee. Dir: Yoo Ha.
4. Akarui Musyoku (Japan)
Prod: Seiji Morishita. Dir: Hiroshi Okuda
5. Antiqu (South Korea)
Prod: Eugene Lee & Min Jin-soo. Dir: Min Kyu-dong
6. Chants Of Lotus (Indonesia)
Prod: Nia Dinata. Dir: Nia Dinata and others
7. Crystal Dolphin (Taiwan)
Prod: Chang San-ling. Dir: Hsu Jao-jen
8. Dellievery Health (USA)
Pord: Kanako Koido. Dir: Alison Chermik
9. Dream Of A Butterfly (USA)
Prod: Jonathan Levitt. Dir: Pan Zijing
10. Duck Fight (Thailand)
Prod: Pakphum Wongjinda. Dir: Pornchai Hongrattanapom
11. Fair End Of Heaven (Taiwan)
Prod: Peggy Hsiung-Ping Chiao. Dir: Jui-Yuan Tsao
12. Generation Forties (Japan)
Prod: Tatsuya Murayama. Dir: Yuji Nakae
13. I'm Glad That My Mother Is Alive (France)
Prod: Jean-Louis Livi. Dir: Claude and Nathan Miller
14. Koiwarai (Japan)
Prod: Kouichi Shibuya. Dir: TBA
15. Mabushikute Mienai (South Korea/Japan)
Prod: Yuko Kameda. Dir: TBA
16. Mangala (China/France)
Prod: TBA. Dir: Xiao Jiang
17. Melon Melon Forest Rangers (Japan)
Prod: Kenji Ishimaru. Dir: Hiroshi Chida
18. Missing Piece (Japan)
Prod: TBA. Dir: Katsunori Sato
19. My Istanbul (USA)
Prod: Kumi Kuroiwa. Dir: Yesim Ustagaolu
20. Naked Love (Japan)
Prod: Yutaka Moroashi. Dir: Sion Sono
21. Raincoat (China)
Prod: Zhongqiang Jin. Dir: Jiabei Zhang
22. Rusty Read (Italy)
Prod: Yui Shibata. Dir: Francesco Filippi
23. Shiiku (Cambodia)
Prod: Catherine Dussart. Dir: Rithy Panh
24. Stretch (France)
Prod: Marin Karmitz. Dir: Charles De Meaux
25. Takorasu World (Japan)
Prod: Takayuki Koide. Dir: TBA
26. TBA (Thailand/Japan)
Prod: Kitaro Kanematu. Dir: Nonzee Nimibutr
27. The Fortuneteller (Philippines)
Prod: Joseph David DC Santos. Dir: Paolo Herras
28. The Home Kinoglaz (Russia)
Prod: Evgenia Tirdatova. Dir: Nurbek Egen
29. The Incident (France)
Prod: Jean-Louis Livi. Dir: Alain Resnais
30. The Tchaikovsky Competition (Japan)
Prod: Motohiro Hatanaka. Dir: TBA
31. Tidoms (France/Canada)
Prod: François Cohen-Seat. Dir: Patrice Garcia
32. Tsurugidake (Japan)
Prod: Sunao Sakagami. Dir: Daisaku Kimura
33. Tuvalu Project (Hong Kong)
Prod: Subi Liang. Dir: Pang Ho-cheung
34. Two By The River (working title) (Japan)
Prod: TBA. Dir: Tomoko Kana
35. Two Men's Utopia (China)
Prod: Lola. Dir: Huang Ruxiang
36. Ugetu (Japan)
Prod: Toshio Toyoda. Dir: Shinji Aoyama
37. V For Vampire (Hong Kong)
Prod: Catherine Hun. Dir: Vincent Kok Tak-Chiu
38. Virgin Camellia (Japan)
Prod: Noriyuki Waki. Dir: Hiroki Yamaguchi
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