Photo: From Left: Kengo Yagawa, Shuko Yamanouchi, Daichi Watanabe, Yuki Nakajima, Chie Hayakawa; Tony Rayns, Takeshi Kitano, Christian Jeune, Shunpei Shimizu, Gendo Shu, and Satoshi Noboriyama. This year, TIFF launched the SAMURAI Award to commend filmmakers who continue to create groundbreaking films that carve out a path to a new era, for their achievement. Takeshi Kitano was one of the first recipients of the award. This special talk session was held in commemoration of the establishment of … [Read more...] about TIFF’s “SAMURAI Award Special Talk Session”
Tokyo International Film Festival
TIFF presents “SAMURAI Award Special Talk Session”
Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) announced the TIFF presents the SAMURAI Award Special Talk Session which will be held to feature Takeshi Kitano, one of Japan’s most prominent film director. We will also invite young Japanese filmmakers, international film critic and film curator to talk about “Now and Future of Japanese Film” on 25 October. This year, TIFF has launched the SAMURAI Award to commend achievements of filmmaker who continues to create groundbreaking films … [Read more...] about TIFF presents “SAMURAI Award Special Talk Session”
Star appearance at 27th Tokyo International Film Festival
This year, the appearances of Hollywood filmmakers such as John Lasseter and Tim Burton and Japanese filmmakers such as Takeshi Kitano and Hideaki Anno are confirmed as well as other guests from around the world. The organisers are planning many event opportunities to meet them such as the opening carpet ceremony, events at Roppongi Hills Arena, stage appearances and Q&A to bring the film festival more excitement. To lead off 2020 Tokyo Olympic, TIFF will transmit “TOKYO” to all … [Read more...] about Star appearance at 27th Tokyo International Film Festival
27th Tokyo International Film Festival
The complete line-up of the main sections were introduced by the programming directors, in addition to the earlier announcement of Opening and Closing films Big Hero 6 (Directors: Don Hall, Chris Williams) and Parasyte (Director: Takashi Yamazaki). For the competition section, a total of 1,373 titles from 92 countries and regions were submitted to TIFF this year. Daihachi Yoshida, the director of Pale Moon which was selected for the Competition section and Miki Nakatani, the Festival Muse of … [Read more...] about 27th Tokyo International Film Festival
