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Aliens, Dinosaurs and a Father’s Death: ‘Kefi’ Director Saito Kisin Brings a Surreal Take on Grief to Tokyo

Likely the strangest entry at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, the surreal “Kefi,” the debut feature by cinematographer Saito Kisin, mixes multiple short stories and multiple styles to make sense of the feelings around a complicated relationship with his late father. It doesn’t get there through the signifiers one might anticipate: there are al

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‘Ninja Warrior’ Maker TBS Tells Tokyo Market How Legendary, CJ ENM Alliances Fit Its Push to Make J-Content the Next K-Drama

A Thursday morning session at TIFFCOM, the content market of the Tokyo International Film Festival, highlighted the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) Group’s initiatives to find global footholds for Japanese content and “inspiring global love for Japan.” Watanabe Shinya, president of the global business division at TBS Holdings, and Setoguchi Katsuaki, executi

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‘Godzilla Minus One’ U.S. Success ‘Wasn’t a Strategy; We Just Tried,’ Says Toho CEO at Tokyo Festival

Japanese studio giant Toho’s North American release of “Godzilla Minus One” was a turning point in the company’s approach to the global market, CEO Matsuoka Hiro said at the Tokyo International Film Festival on Thursday. Matsuoka was speaking at an “Academy in Tokyo” session with Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts [
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Toho CEO Matsuoka Hiro On The Company’s Decision To Self-Distribute ‘Godzilla Minus One’ In The U.S. — Tokyo

“It was all a coincidence,” Toho CEO Matsuoka Hiro said this afternoon during a Q&A at the Tokyo Film Festival when quizzed on his company’s decision to re-enter the U.S. market in 2023 to distribute Takashi Yamazaki’s box-office hit Godzilla Minus One. Godzilla Minus One opened Stateside in December 2023 and earned more than $11.4 [
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From Carlos Reygadas to Hamaguchi’s Cinematographer, Tokyo’s Nippon Cinema Now Directors on Unexpected Connections

A first-time director who messaged Oscar winner Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s cinematographer directly, and a former hunter whose film led Carlos Reygadas to float a collaboration, were among five Nippon Cinema Now filmmakers who shared the unexpected connections behind their work at the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF). The “How We Make Films” panel at T

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‘One Cut of the Dead’ Director Ueda Shinichiro on Turning a Microdrama Into Tokyo Feature ‘Earthlings in Love’

Director Ueda Shinichiro made a name for himself with filmmaking that has embraced self-reflexivity: the beloved cult zombie film “One Cut of the Dead” was continually transforming, from a single-take horror-comedy into a meditation on the act of filmmaking and then the chaos of actually being on set. His new feature “Earthlings in Love,” showing [
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Amazon MGM Studios Japan ‘Doubling’ Investment to Meet Global Standards, Local Chief Buddy Marini Reveals at Tokyo Market

Amazon MGM Studios Japan is doubling its investment to bring its content up to global standards, studio head Buddy Marini said Wednesday at a Tokyo International Film Festival TIFFCOM market session on unlocking the global potential of Japanese IP. The session, organized by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and UniJapan, also featured Credeus CEO Matsuhas

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Japanese-Brazilian Grief Drama ‘Yellow Chrysanthemum,’ Set During the 2014 Soccer World Cup, Joins Tokyo Gap-Financing Market

A Japanese-Brazilian teenager forced to face a family loss nobody will talk about is at the heart of “Yellow Chrysanthemum,” the first feature from Japanese-Brazilian director AndrĂ© Hayato Saito, which is among the projects at this year’s Tokyo Gap-Financing Market. The film is set in SĂŁo Paulo in July 2014, while Brazil is staging the [
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Academy CEO Bill Kramer Maps Oscars’ Global Ambitions in Tokyo: ‘Parasite’ Win Was ‘a Pivot, a Shift’

The Academy plans to keep taking the Oscars global, from recruiting members in underrepresented countries to streaming the ceremony free on YouTube, its leadership said in Tokyo, where CEO Bill Kramer said the share of members living outside the U.S. has grown from around 5% to 25% in a decade. Kramer was speaking at an [
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Taiwan-Japan Film Fund Daily Capital Launches at Tokyo Market, Backs Period Romance ‘Love Ends in Bloom’

Daily Capital, a new fund focused on Taiwan-Japan film and television co-productions, launched on the Tokyo International Film Festival market TIFFCOM’s opening day at the “Taiwan Originals: Project Showcase” event. The fund aims to raise NT$100 million (about $3.1 million) and invest in at least five projects across film, television and animation over its f

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Thai Forest Spirit Horror ‘Cher,’ First Thai Winner at Frontiùres, Joins Tokyo Gap-Financing Market

A Thai horror film built on the folklore of the Nang Mai, the forest nymphs of Thai myth, is the only Thai entry in the 2026 Tokyo Gap-Financing Market lineup. “Cher” arrives in Tokyo after becoming the first Thai project selected for, and awarded a top prize at, Canada’s Frontiùres Co-Production Market. Benetone Films and [
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Kore-eda Hirokazu Hails Japanese Cinema’s Global Moment as Ninomiya Kazunari, Academy’s Amy Homma and ‘Kokuho’ Producer Murata Chieko Take Stage at Kering Women in Motion Tokyo Event

Kering Women in Motion, an allied program of the Tokyo International Film Festival, held a talk event on Tuesday at Toho Cinemas Roppongi Hills for a packed crowd. Director Kore-eda Hirokazu (“Shoplifters”) opened the event with brief remarks. “In recent years, I’ve been hearing people at international film festivals say, ‘Japanese films are really interesti

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Yuriko Gamo Romer & Marc Smolowitz On The 12 Year Journey Behind Their Japanese-U.S. History Baseball Doc ‘Diamond Diplomacy’ — Tokyo

After a year on the U.S. festival circuit, with buzzy stops at Mill Valley and Hot Springs, Diamond Diplomacy, the feature documentary from San Francisco-based filmmaker Yuriko Gamo Romer, receives its first international screening this week at the Tokyo Film Festival. The screening will serve as a unique homecoming for Gamo Romer and the doc. [
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Tokyo Opener ‘Sukiyaki’ Director Zeze Takahisa on the Protest Roots of a Global Japanese Pop Hit: ‘The Culture Used to Be Wide Open – Now It’s Become Narrower’

The opening film of the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival, Zeze Takahisa’s “Sukiyaki” tells the story of how the title tune became a worldwide hit in 1963 as well as a beloved standard that has been recorded in foreign-language versions that have also topped charts. The film goes beyond the song itself to delve into [
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Horror Film ‘The Land of Jinn’ Is First Indonesia-Kyrgyzstan Co-Production, Unveiled at Tokyo Gap-Financing Market

Indonesia and Kyrgyzstan have made their first film together. “The Land of Jinn,” a supernatural horror feature directed by Kevin Rahardjo (“Smothered”), was unveiled at the Tokyo Gap-Financing Market as the first co-production between the two countries. The story centers on a young Indonesian woman who journeys to Kyrgyzstan in search of a mystical healer [

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Ancestral Memory Meets AI in Himalayan Drama ‘Shirjara: Song of Grandmother’ at Tokyo Gap-Financing Market

A Himalayan drama that sets a grandmother’s stories against the rise of artificial intelligence is aiming for a Cannes premiere next year. Director Bikash Subedi’s Nepali feature “Shirjara: Song of Grandmother” has wrapped principal photography and is at the Tokyo Gap-Financing Market to raise its last $44,000. Described as a speculative drama, the film move

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Punk Band Guitar Wolf Rocks Back Into Takeuchi Tetsuro’s ‘Wild Zero Overdrive’ at Tokyo Gap-Financing Market

Guitar Wolf, a real-life punk outfit with a long record of touring internationally, headlines “Wild Zero Overdrive,” director Takeuchi Tetsuro’s follow-up to his 1999 film “Wild Zero.” The project is among those at this year’s Tokyo Gap-Financing Market. Takeuchi said he is using the original as a template and updating it for the present day. [
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Acrobatic Pastor’s Secret Obsession Drives Boo Junfeng’s ‘Trinity’ at Tokyo Gap-Financing Market

A celebrity preacher who performs daredevil stunts for his congregation while hiding his fixation on a young follower sits at the center of “Trinity,” the new feature from director Boo Junfeng, which is among the projects at this year’s Tokyo Gap-Financing Market. Structured in three chapters modeled on the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the [
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Japan Must Follow Hollywood’s Distribution Playbook, Says Tokyo Market Chief Shiina Yasushi, Who Eyes Major Expansion by 2030

Japan’s entertainment business has to adopt the model that made Hollywood studios global players if the country wants to reach its content export targets, according to Shiina Yasushi, CEO of TIFFCOM, the Tokyo International Film Festival’s content market now heading into its 23rd edition. The Japanese government has set a target of JPY20 trillion ($126.6 [
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Anime Licensing Platform AniBiz Gets $6 Million Investment From Japan’s TBS Group, Toei Animation and TV Tokyo Holdings

Nakama, the start-up behind anime licensing platform AniBiz.com, has raised an initial $6 million in funding from three of Japan’s top anime licensors: TBS Group, Toei Animation and TV Tokyo Holdings. AniBiz was launched in July by Crunchyroll founder Kun Gao along with former Crunchyroll execs Brady McCollum and Sae Whan Song. The site now [
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‘Tokyo Vice’ Producer & Netflix Executive Suggest Tweaks To Japan’s Support System: “Incentives Can Be Lower So Long As They’re Certain”

Tokyo Vice producer Alex Boden and Netflix’s APAC Content & Studio Production Affairs chief Debra Richards offered some thoughts on how Japan’s new IP360 incentives scheme could be improved to offer better support to international productions during an MPA seminar at the ongoing Tokyo International Film Festival. Introduced last year to replace the existing

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‘Tokyo Vice’ Producer, Netflix Executive Urge Changes to Japan’s Production Incentive at MPA Seminar as Government Readies Unified Content Body

“Tokyo Vice” producer Alex Boden and Netflix production policy director Deb Richards urged changes to Japan’s international production incentive at the Motion Picture Association’s annual seminar at the Tokyo International Film Festival, as the government prepares a new body to bring its scattered content-industry support under one roof. Boden, the London-ba

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Rolf de Heer & Fellow Tokyo Jury Members Talk Festival ‘A-List’ Ratings, Co-Production & How To Judge Films

Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer, president of the competition jury at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, talked about the significance of ‘A-list’ ratings for film festivals at the jury press conference today. Tokyo has recently had its status as an A-list festival reaffirmed by the FĂ©dĂ©ration Internationale des Associations des Producteurs de

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Tokyo Jury President Rolf de Heer on FIAPF’s New A-List: ‘It Matters a Great Deal to Some People, and Not at All to Others’

FIAPF’s decision to make A-list status official, with Tokyo among the 17 festivals named, is unlikely to change much about the event, according to the filmmaker leading its competition jury. Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer, the director of “Bad Boy Bubby” and “Ten Canoes,” was asked at the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival’s jury press [
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Milcho Manchevski Talks ‘Sister Brother Manhole Cover’, His Second Feature Of 2026 & Exposing Corruption At Macedonia’s Film Agency — Tokyo

This week, Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski returns with Sister Brother Manhole Cover, his second feature of the year, which screens in competition at the Tokyo Film Festival. Directed by Manchevski from a screenplay he also wrote, Sister Brother Manhole Cover follows siblings Malina and Viktor, who live on the outskirts of post-Communist Macedonia. Th

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Parallax Films Boards Sales On ‘Fuxi: Four Tales Of Feasting’ Ahead of Tokyo World Premiere

EXCLUSIVE: Parallax Films has boarded international sales for Fuxi: Four Tales Of Feasting, directed by Chinese artist-filmmaker Qiu Jiongjiong, which is receiving its world premiere in the main competition section of Tokyo International Film Festival. Qiu is known internationally for his debut narrative feature A New Old Play, which won the Special Jury Pri

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Tokyo Film Festival Opens With ‘Sukiyaki’ and a Plea for Peace as Japan’s Government Restates Global Content Ambitions

The 39th Tokyo International Film Festival opened Monday with a rain-soaked red carpet and a ceremony at Hulic Hall, where Japan’s government used the occasion to restate its goal of selling JPY20 trillion ($133 billion) worth of Japanese content overseas by 2033. The festival received 1,892 film submissions from 112 countries and regions this year. [
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Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi Pledges Support For Japanese Film At Tokyo Fest Opening

It was pouring rain at the opening of this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, but as Japanese actor and festival ‘navigator’ Kento Nakajima pointed out, rain symbolizes prosperity, and the local film industry can certainly expect plenty of that in the coming year. Addressing the opening ceremony in a video message, Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae [
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