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 received the prize of the Cannes Ecumenical Jury; and international productions such as Memoirs Of A Geisha (2005) and Babel (2007).

He also recently starred in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Third Murder (2017).

“Koji Yakusho is Japan’s leading international actor, demonstrating

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