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Tokyo International Film Festival

Tokyo International Film Festival

Mika Imai: 'There is such an affinity between deaf culture and visual images'

by Hannah Strong

At the Tokyo International Film Festival, Mika Imai explains bringing their vision of Deaf culture to the big screen through a tender family drama.
Man in black long-sleeved shirt and red shorts standing on rocky beach, looking down. Blue sea and cloudy sky behind him.
Tokyo International Film Festival

Keiko Tsuruoka: 'The starting line for me was the unspoken'

by Hannah Strong

The director of Saikai Paradise reveals how her friendship with her lead actor inspired her tender drama about homecoming and disconnection.
Two people in white shirts lying on a bed, one person laughing whilst covering their face with their hand, the other smiling nearby.
Tokyo International Film Festival

Chihiro Amano: 'It was like I hit a wall in all directions'

by Hannah Strong

At the Tokyo International Film Festival, Japanese filmmaker Chihiro Amano reflects on how her experience of motherhood led her to direct the relationship drama Sato and Sato.
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Taking stock of Japanese cinema at Tokyo International Film Festival

by Hannah Strong

The biggest celebration of cinema in Japan shows promise as an event in the city’s cultural calendar.
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Missing Child Videotape – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Kondo Ryota’s debut feature is a chilling ghost story that begins with a videotape – but that’s where the similarities to Ringu end in this impressive new J‑Horror.
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Teki Cometh – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

An elderly man plans the final year of his life in Daihachi Yoshida’s impressive adaptation of Yasutaka Tsutsui’s novel.
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Route 29 – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A standoffish young woman embarks on a road trip with an unusual 12-year-old girl in Yusuke Morii’s offbeat sophomore feature.
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11 Rebels – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Kazuya Shiraishi polishes off a 60-year-old script for this bloodthirsty samurai epic about a band of criminals recruited to defend a castle from the emperor’s army during the Boshin War.
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The Tokyo International Film Festival has unveiled its full line-up

by Little White Lies

Japan’s biggest film festival returns with a line-up of 110 films for its 37th edition.
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Tokyo International Film Festival celebrates the next generation of Japanese filmmaking talent

by Alicia Haddick

At the revamped Tokyo International Film Festival, the spotlight shone brightly on upcoming Japanese artistic voices.

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