Get the latest gossip
Tokyo Film Festival Is Re-Discovering a Discovery Role, Says Artistic Director Ichiyama Shozo
With accents on Chinese directors, Japan’s upcoming talent and a women’s section, the Tokyo Film Festival can again claim to being a discovery event.
He highlights the new films by Midi Z [“The Unseen Sister”] and Yang Lina [“A Big World”], the latter an actor-turned director who Ichiyama has known since her acting debut in Jia’s “Platform.” The film’s cast is headed by Chinese pop and acting superstar Jackson Yee, whose performance Ichiyama describes as “seriously good.” “My Friend An Delie,” is the directorial debut of Dong Zijian, star of Jia’s “Mountains May Depart,” where he played the young boy who fell in love with Sylvia Chang. The competition section also finds room for three films by Japanese directors who are both well-known and still rising filmmakers: Katayama Shinzo with “Lust in the Rain”; Ohku Akiko with “She Taught Me Serendipity”; and Yoshida Daihachi with the highly anticipated “Teki Cometh.” “This film inherits the tradition of ensemble period dramas that Toei once excelled at, showcasing the top-tier production values in contemporary Japanese cinema in every aspect, from action sequences to set design.
Or read this on Variety
