by: Alana Brown-Davis
The lineup for the 38th Tokyo International Film Festival features a major list headlined by Fan Bingbing and Zhang Ziyi. The festival runs from October 28th until November 5th and will screen at venues across central Tokyo including Toho Cinemas Hibiya, Humantrust Cinema Yurakucho and Marunouchi Piccadilly.
38th Tokyo International Film Festival Lineup:
Main Competition
“Atropia” (U.S., Hailey Gates)
“Blonde” (Japan, Sakashita Yuichiro)
“Echoes of Motherhood ” (Japan, Nakagawa Ryutaro)
“Golem in Pompei” (France, Amos Gitai)
“Heads or Tails?” (Italy/U.S., Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis)
“Hen” (Greece/Germany/Hungary, György Pálfi)
“Maria Vitoria” (Portugal, Mário Patrocínio)
“Morte Cucina” (Thailand, Pen-ek Ratanaruang)
“Mother” (Belgium/North Macedonia, Teona Strugar Mitevska)
“Mother Bhumi” (Malaysia, Chong Keat Aun)
“Mothertongue” (China, Zhang Lu)
“Palestine 36” (Palestine/UK/France/Denmark, Annemarie Jacir)
“Sermon to the Void” (Azerbaijan/Mexico/Turkey, Hilal Baydarov )
“Take Off” (China, Pengfei)
“We Are the Fruits of the Forest” (Cambodia/France, Rithy Panh)
Gala Selection
“Climbing for Life” (Japan, Sakamoto Junji ) – opening film
“Hamnet” (U.K., Chloé Zhao) – closing film
“Tokyo Taxi” (Japan, Yamada Yoji) – centerpiece
“Blue Boy Trial” (Japan, Iizuka Kasho)
“Bring Him Down to a Portable Size” (Japan/France/China, Nakano Ryota )
“Can’t Cry with Your Face” (Japan, Sakashita Yuichiro)
“Eddington” (U.S., Ari Aster)
“Holy Night: Demon Hunters” (Korea, Lim Dae-hee)
“Love on Trial” (Japan, Fukada Koji)
“Night Flower” (Japan, Uchida Eiji)
“One Last Throw” (Japan, Akiyama Jun )
“Rental Family” (U.S./Japan, Hikari)
“She Has No Name” (China, Peter Ho-sun Chan)
“Sirat” (France/Spain, Oliver Laxe)
“Sons of the Neon Night” (China/Hong Kong, Juno Mak)
“Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” (U.S., Scott Cooper)
Asian Future
“Journey into Sato Tadao” (Japan, Terasaki Mizuho)
“The Chatterboxes” (Japan, Kawai Ken)
“Far in the Middle of the East” (Iran/Austria, Arash Aneessee)
“The Greatest Funeral Hits” (Turkey, Ziya Demirel)
“Halo” (Korea, Roh Young-wan)
“Kiiroiko” (Japan , Imai Mika)
“Linka Linka” (China, Kangdrun)
“Noah’s Daughter” (Iran, Amirreza Jalalian)
“Number 23” (China, Xia Hao )
“The Old Man and His Car” (Singapore, Michael Kam)
“Tomorrow’s Min-Jae” (Korea, Park Young-jae)
Nippon Cinema Now
“Saikai Paradise” (Japan, Tsuruoka Keiko)
“White Flowers and Fruits” (Japan, Sakamoto Yukari)
“In Their Traces” (Japan, Kobayashi Shigeru)
“Echoes of the Orient” (Japan, Yang Liping)
“All Greens” (Japan, Koyama Takashi)
“Poca Pon” (Japan, Ohtsuka Shin-ichi)
“TimeLimit” (Japan, Elizabeth Miyaji)
“Harà Watan (Lost Land)” (Japan/France/Malaysia/Germany, Fujimoto Akio)
Women’s Empowerment
“100 Sunset” (Canada, Kunsang Kyirong)
“About Me” (Japan, Nomoto Kozue)
“Cinema Jazireh” (Turkey/Bulgaria/Romania, Gözde Kural)
“Happy Birthday” (Egypt, Sarah Goher)
“I Am Nevenka” (Spain/Italy, Icíar Bollaín)
“Sato and Sato” (Japan, Amano Chihiro)
“Someone Like Me” (Hong Kong, Tam Wai-ching)
World Focus
“Girls on Wire” (China, Vivian Qu)
“Kiss of the Spider Woman” (U.S., Bill Condon)
“Kopitiam Days” (Singapore, Yeo Siew Hua, Shoki Lin, M. Rihan Halim, Tan Siyou, Don Aravind, Ong Kuo Sin)
“Le Lac” (Switzerland, Fabrice Aragno)
“Magellan” (Portugal/Spain/France/The Philippines/Taiwan, Lav Diaz)
“Mare’s Nest” (UK/France/Canada, Ben Rivers)
“The Mastermind” (U.S., Kelly Reichardt)
“Tunnels: Sun in the Dark” (Vietnam, Bui Thac Chuyen)
“The Captive” (Spain/Italy, Alejandro Amenábar)
“Dreams” (Mexico/U.S., Michel Franco)
“Matador” (Spain, Pedro Almodóvar)
“The Wave” (Chile, Sebastián Lelio)
“April” (Taiwan, Freddy Tang)
“Crown Shyness” (Taiwan, Chang Chun-yu)
“Double Happiness” (Taiwan, Joseph Chen-chieh Hsu)
“The Waves Will Carry Us” (Taiwan, Lau Kek-huat)
“Kika” (Belgium/France, Alexe Poukine)
“Vitrival – The Most Beautiful Village in the World” (Belgium, Noëlle Bastin, Baptiste Bogaert)
“Black God, White Devil” (Brazil, Glauber Rocha)
“The Dragon of Wickedness Against the Holy Warrior” (Brazil, Glauber Rocha)
“Central Station” (Brazil, Walter Salles)
“White House” (Brazil, Luciano Vidigal)
“The Blue Trail” (Brazil/Mexico/Netherlands/Chile, Gabriel Mascaro)
“Milton Bituca Nascimento” (Brazil, Flavia Moraes)
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