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This year's Tokyo International Film Festival will open with the world premiere of 11 Rebels, directed by Japan's Kazuya Shiraishi, and close with French-Italian comedy Marcello Mio, directed by Christophe Honoré. Starring Takayuki Yamada and Taiga Nakano, 11 Rebels is a period action film based on a…

Hungarian film director and screenwriter Enyedi Ildikó, Japanese actress Hashimoto Ai, French actress Chiara Mastroianni, and Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To will join Tony Leung on the international competition jury of the 37th Tokyo Film Festival, running from October 28 to November 6. The jury…

Veteran Hong Kong actor Tony Leung will serve as the president of the international competition at this year's Tokyo Film Festival.  "I am immensely honored to be on the jury team at TIFF this year. Japan is close to my heart in more ways than one and to be involved in celebrating film in this way…

This year's Tokyo Film Festival closes this evening with the world premiere of Godzilla Minus One, the latest edition in Toho's monster franchise, directed by filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki.  Alongside his directing duties on Godzilla Minus One, Yamazaki also wrote the screenplay and served as director…

Family drama Snow Leopard, directed by the late Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden, has won the Tokyo Grand Prix, the top prize at this year's Tokyo International Film Festival. Scroll down for the full list of winners. The film, which is also nominated for three Asia Pacific Screen Awards, follows a…

Very little has been heard from Indonesian filmmaker Mouly Surya since her buzzy 2017 Cannes title Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts.  "I've been in the pandemic like everybody else, wearing a mask, staying at home afraid if I step out of the house that I might die, and taking the whole family with…

This year's Tokyo Film Festival (TIFF) has three Japanese filmmakers playing in competition — a haul that TIFF programming director Ichiyama Shozo told Deadline is a welcome high for the fest.  One of this year's set is filmmaker Kotsuji Yohei, who screens his debut feature, A Foggy Paradise, an…

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"Ticket sales have gone up 27%, and we're only at the midway point, so I'm quite happy," Ando Hiroyasu, Tokyo Film Festival (TIFF) Chairman, told Deadline as he shuttled between engagements at this year's busy and buzzy comeback edition.  Hiroyasu assumed the role of Chairman in 2019, sheltering the…

Veteran Hong Kong actor Tony Leung passed through the Tokyo Film Festival this afternoon, where he led a masterclass session following a screening of 2046, his sixth collaboration with filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai.  Leung's appearance onstage was brief but dense, with the actor largely digging into the…

EXCLUSIVE: There's been much celebratory talk here at the Tokyo Film Festival about a new dawn of internationally-minded Japanese artists led by directors such as Hirokazu Kore-eda, Makoto Shinkai, and Ryusuke Hamaguchi.  One of the key creative voices often mentioned amongst this new Japanese set is…

As the Tokyo Film Festival returns with a focus on international expansion, this year's MPA seminar hosted as part of the festival industry program was centered around how to make the country a more attractive production environment for international producers. "The world is in love with Japan," Toho…