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FeaturesTIFF Director In Focus Keisuke Yoshida on choosing projects and manga adaptations
Tokyo International Film Festival is screening three of Yoshida’s works, including Blue and Intolerance, which were both released this year.
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FeaturesTokyo’s animation section explores the influence of late master Yasuo Otsuka
This year’s ’Japan Animation’ also looks at the Kamen Rider series and four recent or upcoming Japanese features.
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News‘Crane Lantern’: first trailer for Hilal Baydarov’s Tokyo competition title (exclusive)
Producers are Elşən Abbasov, Carlos Reygadas and Baydarov, with Danny Glover and Joslyn Barnes executive producing.
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FeaturesTokyo Film Festival returns with new programming structure and management team
TIFF runs October 30-November 8.
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NewsTIFFCOM, MPA unveil pitch competition projects, Emile Sherman masterclass
Five projects from up-and-coming Japanese filmmakers have been selected for a pitching contest.
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NewsTokyo film festival unveils competition line-up with 10 world premieres
World premieres include debut from Happy Hour co-writer Tadashi Nohara and new works from Brillante Mendoza and Mikhail Red.
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NewsTokyo fest to open with ‘Cry Macho’, honour late animator Yasuo Otsuka
Festival will close with Stephen Chbosky’s Dear Evan Hansen; gala section titles also announced.
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NewsTokyo Gap Financing Market unveils 20 projects selected for second edition
Line-up includes new projects from Elise Girard, Atsushi Funahashi and Ray Yeung.
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NewsTokyo fest to showcase Keisuke Yoshida in new Nippon Cinema Now section
New section replaces Japan Now and will focus on emerging talents who deserve greater international recognition.
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NewsTokyo film festival changes venue, Shozo Ichiyama joins as programming head
TIFF will also become the first Asian film festival to sign Collectif 50/50’s Gender Parity Pledge.
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NewsAlpha Violet unveils Japanese deals on ‘Apples’, ‘Identifying Features’ out of Tokyo (exclusive)
Christos Nikou’s feature is Greece’s Oscar submission.
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News‘Hold Me Back’ wins audience award at Tokyo International Film Festival
The audience award was the only prize given out at this year’s edition of the festival.
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NewsForced to drop out, Jia Zhang-ke still dominates discussion on Tokyo panel
Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa and producer Ichiyama Shozo were the other speakers.
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NewsTIFFCOM: Japanese content gets international boost in Covid, streaming era
Anime in particular is starting to go mainstream among Gen Z and Millennials as the number of global streaming buyers grows.
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NewsHirokazu Kore-eda praises streaming services as Netflix hails diversity benefits
Filmmakers and streamers discussed the future of Japanese cinema at Tokyo International Film Festival.
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FeaturesKoji Fukada on how theatre has influenced his work and his fight to save indie cinemas
The director of Cannes 2020 Label title The Real Thing has been selected as Tokyo International Film Festival’s Director in Focus.
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FeaturesTIFFCOM builds out pitching activities with trio of events
Tokyo Project & Pitching Forum (TPPF) includes three events that each focus on a different stage in the life-cycle of a project.
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NewsTokyo fest opens with support from Robert De Niro, Christopher Nolan
Festival opens with physical red carpet and video messages of congratulations from global industry figures.
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FeaturesTokyo’s new animation section showcases shift towards hyper-real filmmaking
Tokyo International Film Festival’s Japanese Animation sidebar also celebrates the long-running Pokémon series.
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FeaturesHirokazu Kore-eda on the launch of Tokyo’s “Asia Lounge” Conversation Series
Japanese filmmaker explains why he’s working with Tokyo film festival on a series of online talks.