The Tokyo International Film Festival’s competition section will skew heavily towards Asian titles, festival organizers said on Tuesday.The festival announced the full lineup for its 34rd edition to be held Oct.
30 – Nov.
8, 2021 at its new main venues in the Hibiya-Yurakucho-Ginza area of Tokyo.
As previously announced, the festival will open with Clint Eastwood’s “Cry Macho” and close with Stephen Chbosky’s “Dear Evan Hansen.”The 15-title competition this year includes “Crane Lantern,” the new film by 2020 Tokyo Filmex Grand Prize winner Hilal Baydarov of Azerbaijan, “Arisaka,” an action thriller by young Filipino auteur Mikhail Red and “One and Four,” a Chinese film produced by Tibetan cinema veteran Pema Tseden.
Japan is represented by Matsui Daigo’s relationship drama “Just Remembering” and “Third Time Lucky,” the directorial debut of scriptwriter Nohara Tadashi.Chairing the jury is French star Isabelle Huppert.“We decided to focus more on quality than
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