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”