Tag: The Eel

  • Tokyo Film Festival announces Koji Yakusho, Masaaki Yuasa retrospectives

    Tokyo Film Festival announces Koji Yakusho, Masaaki Yuasa retrospectives

    Japanese actor Yakusho’s work includes 1997 Palme d’Or winner The Eel.This year’s Tokyo Inte­­­rnational Film Festival will be hosting retrospectives of the work of Japanese actor Koji Yakusho and animation director Masaaki Yuasa.Tiff’s Japan Now section will screen a selection of Yakusho’s work, which spans Cannes Palme d’Or winner The Eel (1997); Eureka (2001), which…

  • Tokyo Festival Sets Koji Yakusho Sidebar

    Tokyo Festival Sets Koji Yakusho Sidebar

    The Tokyo International Film Festival will dedicate a major sidebar section this year to the work of legendary actor Koji Yakusho. Another section will be dedicated to animation director Masaaki Yuasa.“Over a 40-year career, Yakusho has won best actor awards at a variety of international film festivals, such as with “Cure” (1997) at the Tokyo…

  • French Star Isabelle Adjani on #MeToo: ‘The Issue at Stake Is Equality, Not a Reckoning’

    Isabelle Adjani, the Oscar-nominated star of François Truffaut’s “The Story of Adele H.” and Bruno Nuytten’s “Camille Claudel,” presided over the Cannes jury in 1997, the year of the festival’s 50th anniversary.Heading the panel is “a very intense experience and at times a difficult mission when it comes to judging the work of other artists,…