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Tokyo Film Festival’s Full Lineup Is Long on China, Animation and Marcello Mastroianni
The Tokyo International Film Festival's full lineup gives plenty of space to Chinese titles of various origins, animation and Marcello Mastroianni.
These include Marielle Heller’s “Nightbitch” which debuted in Toronto, smash hit Hong Kong action film “Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In,” Chinese director Guan Hu’s Cannes comedy-drama “Black Dog: and Eric Khoo’s Japan-set, Catherine Deneuve-starring “Spirit World.” It includes: “Ghost Cat Anzu,” by Kuno Yoko and Yamashita Nobuhiro; Chris Sanders’ “The Wild Robot”; Gints Zilbalodis’s “Flow”; and Adam Elliot’s “Memoir of a Snail,” all of which are performing on the international festival circuit. The newly launched Female Empowerment section runs to nine titles including “IVO,” by Eva Trobisch, “My Favourite Cake,” by Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha, and a world premiere of Doctor-X The Movie,” by Tamura Naoki.
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