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  • Drama
A failing silk factory adopts a restructuring plan. When some female employees band together to protect their jobs, the company responds with a strange proposal. In his latest work, Michele Placido...
Director: Michele Placido
Competition/International Premiere
  • 10/25 14:30-
  • 10/26 18:10-
  • 10/25 00:00-
  • Drama
  • Music
Once a gifted dancer, the arrogant Aleksey now runs a ballet school. Suddenly, a child from his past appears and his back problems worsen, forcing him to make a drastic decision. This comedy, fille...
Director: Anna Matison
Competition/International Premiere
  • 10/31 21:00-
  • 11/02 14:15-
  • Drama
A movie director and his actress wife find out that she is pregnant with their second child. Struggling financially, they opt for an abortion as domestic tensions rise in this powerful portrayal of...
Director: Mohsen Abdolvahab
Competition/International Premiere
  • 10/27 10:35-
  • 10/28 18:00-
  • Drama
Ali can’t forget his younger sister, but her adopted parents won’t allow them to meet. After he comes up with a plan to get her back, things quickly spiral out of control. This visually stunning, m...
Director: Reha Erdem
Competition/Asian Premiere
  • 10/29 11:00-
  • 10/31 11:15-
  • Drama
  • Romance
While studying the Holocaust with his eccentric female assistant, a stubborn researcher makes an unexpected discovery. With a touch of romantic comedy, this drama depicts the shadow that these hist...
Director: Chris Kraus
Competition/World Premiere
  • 10/27 21:10-
  • 10/28 14:20-
  • Drama
  • Comedy
Trisha, a transgender woman who makes a living as a beauty contestant, dies unexpectedly. Before she died, her one last wish was to remain beautiful even in death. This moving work, filled with lau...
Director: Jun Robles Lana
Competition/World Premiere
  • 10/27 17:50-
  • 11/02 21:00-
  • Drama
A reporter sets out to interview young girls who have been deported from Paris to Romania. But after wandering off course, he comes up against the dark truths of Europe. This deftly crafted thrilli...
Director: Adrian Sitaru
Competition/Asian Premiere
  • 10/29 18:10-
  • 10/31 14:30-
  • Romance
  • Youth Drama
  • Suspense
Cryptic graffiti, borrowed from a missing person poster, begin to appear all over town. A mysterious group of high school girls begins attacking men at random. After the disappearance of Haruko, th...
Director: Daigo Matsui
Competition
  • 10/30 13:35-
  • 11/01 14:05-
  • Drama
Shot in stylish black-and-white, this three-act fable, set in wartime Chongqing, focuses on the indifferent rich, the head clerk on a farm, and some young intruders. Based on a 1943 short story, th...
Director: Mei Feng
Competition/World Premiere
  • 10/29 14:10-
  • 11/02 10:20-
  • Drama
Out on parole, a man agrees to help out at his brother’s bar, but his heart isn’t in it. Instead, he starts his own business, unaware of what lies ahead. This drama, featuring Réda Kateb, portrays ...
Director: Hamé, Ekoué
Competition/International Premiere
  • 10/29 21:20-
  • 11/01 17:30-
  • Drama
  • Youth Drama
Marijana lives humbly with her problematic family in coastal Croatia. She isn’t exactly unhappy, but when an unforeseen event happens, everything changes. This drama explores the mind of its introv...
Director: Hana Jušić
Competition/Asian Premiere
  • 10/30 10:15-
  • 11/01 10:50-
  • Drama
  • Youth Drama
In the 1930s, the Sami, indigenous to the Swedish mountains, were subjected to discrimination. Refusing to accept this fate, a young girl sets out to change her life. This moving drama, made by a S...
Director: Amanda Kernell
Competition/Asian Premiere
  • 10/26 14:50-
  • 10/30 21:05-
  • Drama
  • Comedy
  • Romance
As a frustrated director faces debt and divorce, his elderly father suddenly regains his youth. This moving comedy gradually reveals elements of history and romance. Adapted from a play by Norihiko...
Director: Roy Szeto
Competition/World Premiere
  • 10/26 21:20-
  • 10/28 21:20-
  • Drama
  • Suspense
Wracked with guilt after his wife is assaulted, a man finds himself at a loss. Not merely a tale of revenge, this masterful thriller, directed by Brazilian hopeful Marco Dutra, explores the hero’s ...
Director: Marco Dutra
Competition/International Premiere
  • 11/01 20:40-
  • 11/02 17:50-
  • Drama
The film is a reinterpretation of “Yuki-Onna”, from Lafcadio Hearn’s “Kwaidan”, a book of Japanese ghost stories. Sugino directs and plays the titular lead in her third directorial feature.One snow...
Director: Kiki Sugino
Competition/World Premiere
  • 10/28 11:00-
  • 10/31 17:40-
  • Romance
  • Youth Drama
  • Suspense
Asked by his brother to help out with a dangerous job, Danny reluctantly agrees, meeting a mysterious girl in the process. And then fate leads the two on a trip to the suburbs. This love story is n...
Director: Adam Leon
Competition/Asian Premiere
  • 10/26 11:20-
  • 10/30 17:10-
29th Tokyo International Film Festival Competition Section The Tokyo Grand Prix winning film will be screened.The Tokyo Grand Prix winner will be announced on 11/3 (THU) Closing Day of the film fe...
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Competition
  • 11/03 14:00-
  • 11/03 19:35-
29th Tokyo International Film Festival Competition SectionThe Audience Award winning film will be screened.
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Competition
  • 11/03 10:20-
Founded in 2014, Competition Section: WOWOW Viewer's Choice Award winning film will be screened.The event will be an invitation-only WOWOW subscribers' screening.Official HP: www.wowow.co.jp/movie/...
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Competition
  • 11/03 20:10-
  • Drama
  • Suspense
Maya, a farmer’s daughter, accidentally kills an endangered Philippine Eagle in a forest reserve. When the police investigate, other horrifying crime cases are soon revealed… The second feature by ...
Director: Mikhail Red
Asian Future/World Premiere
  • 10/28 13:50-
  • 11/01 20:50-
  • Drama
Gye-chun, a veteran diver on Jeju Island, lives happily with her granddaughter Hye-ji until the girl disappears. Gye-chun desperately looks for her, but… 12 years later, Hye-ji suddenly comes home,...
Director: Chang
Asian Future/International Premiere
  • 10/31 21:00-
  • 11/02 16:10-
  • Drama
  • Romance
Yoel and Ewa are long married. One day, Yoel learns to his surprise that he owns property and that one of the tenants knows Ewa well. Yoel tries to solve the mystery, and his life changes forever. ...
Director: Haim Tabakman
Asian Future/World Premiere
  • 10/28 21:00-
  • 10/31 10:25-
  • Drama
Erica, born to a US soldier and a Filipino mother, plans to get her passport and US visa to meet her father, who has been out of touch since he went back to America. In the meantime, she meets an A...
Director: Ivan Andrew Payawal
Asian Future/International Premiere
  • 10/30 14:45-
  • 11/02 12:50-
  • Drama
  • Romance
Four women have secrets: a burkha-clad college girl dreams of becoming a pop singer; a young, two-timing beautician seeks to escape from her small town; a mother of three has another life as a sale...
Director: Alankrita Shrivastava
Asian Future/World Premiere
  • 10/26 18:20-
  • 10/30 18:00-
  • Drama
  • Music
Heping, a rock singer 20 years ago, now works as a driver. He meets his old bandmate Dayong, a juror for music competitions. Drinking with him, He-ping feels a twinge of passion for music, but decl...
Director: Xie Xiaodong
Asian Future/International Premiere
  • 10/26 15:35-
  • 10/27 17:30-
  • Music
  • Documentary
Legendary musicians of the 1970s Taiwanese folk-rock scene reunite after 40 years for a big concert. Will their songs move the younger generation? Ode to Time captures the past and current lives of...
Director: Hou Chi-jan
Asian Future/International Premiere
  • 10/27 14:05-
  • 10/28 10:50-
  • Drama
  • Youth Drama
In a seaside village in the Moluccas, 10-year-old Salawaku leaves home to find his sister Binaiya, who has disappeared. He meets 20-year-old Saras from Jakarta, and they begin travelling together. ...
Director: Pritagita Arianegara
Asian Future/World Premiere
  • 10/26 21:40-
  • 10/29 19:20-
  • Drama
In Inner Mongolia in the early 1990s, 12-year-old Xiaolei enjoys summer with his father, who works at a film studio, and his education-minded mother. But life is rapidly changing, as stable jobs at...
Director: Zhang Dalei
Asian Future/International Premiere
  • 10/31 13:25-
  • 11/02 20:00-
  • Drama
  • Romance
  • Suspense
Yoshihiro Hanno, a prominent film composer who has worked with auteurs like Hou Hsiao-hsien and Jia Zhangke, makes his directorial debut with this suspenseful love story, which began 14 years ago w...
Director: Yoshihiro Hanno
Asian Future/World Premiere
  • 10/28 17:00-
  • 10/29 14:15-
  • Drama
  • Comedy
  • Youth Drama
In 1987, frustrated junior high student Takashi hates his uncool father hanging around their suburban home all the time, and is pestered by the area’s wannabe gangsters. But he’s interested in the ...
Director: Shin Adachi
Japanese Cinema Splash/World Premiere
  • 10/28 19:30-
  • 10/30 10:25-
  • Drama
  • Comedy
A gaunt, middle-aged man barely recovered from a serious illness, an awkward company employee, the hosts’ likable son, who comes home late — each of the men on the terrace are captivated by Haruko’...
Director: Kenji Yamauchi
Japanese Cinema Splash/World Premiere
  • 10/29 17:00-
  • 10/31 20:20-
  • Drama
Asahi, who hails from the remote Goto Islands, earns his living as a boxing trainer at a gym in Tokyo, and is planning to marry Kaori soon. Asahi invites his childhood friend Hiroto to Tokyo and fi...
Director: Yujiro Harumoto
Japanese Cinema Splash/World Premiere
  • 10/29 10:25-
  • 11/01 10:45-
  • Drama
Umi’s hearing is so sensitive that even notes played slightly out-of-tune give her a headache. Violinist Yuko arrives from Tokyo to play a concert on Umi’s small island near Okinawa, and gradually ...
Director: Kaze Shindo
Japanese Cinema Splash/World Premiere
  • 10/30 17:20-
  • 11/02 13:30-
  • Drama
  • Comedy
  • Romance
Focusing on the lives (and a few deaths) of three filmmakers, Rikiya Imaizumi (Their Distance, Sad Tea) tackles weighty themes in this new ensemble drama set in Tokyo and Fukushima. Director Kajiwa...
Director: Rikiya Imaizumi
Japanese Cinema Splash/World Premiere
  • 10/27 10:20-
  • 11/01 17:25-
  • Romance
  • Youth Drama
  • Music
Not satisfied with his achievements as a child actor, Yat (Kaito Yoshimura) is now pursuing his dream to be a musician. His high school friends Takuma (Kodai Asaka), a photographer, and Yumika (Yuk...
Director: Yutaro Nakamura
Japanese Cinema Splash/World Premiere
  • 10/26 16:20-
  • 11/01 20:50-
  • Drama
  • Youth Drama
Two troubled high school classmates, who aren’t friends, encounter an old lady. The girls clash, but with their new mentor’s help, gradually learn to accept each other. This teen drama sensitively ...
Director: Takeo Kikuchi
Japanese Cinema Splash/World Premiere
  • 10/27 14:35-
  • 10/30 20:35-
  • Drama
In a suburb north of Tokyo that seems to be secluded from the world’s madness and malice, Yusuke Mizuhara works as a lifeguard at a swimming pool. With no family, friends or love, his life is lonel...
Director: Hirobumi Watanabe
Japanese Cinema Splash/World Premiere
  • 10/29 20:10-
  • 10/31 16:40-
  • Youth Drama
  • Music
  • Documentary
DDT: Dramatic Dream Team!! -We are Japanese Wrestlers!-2016 | 75min. | colorAward-winning documentary filmmaker Tetsuaki Matsue (Live Tape, Flashback Memories 3D) tag-teams with wrestler MUSCLE SAK...
Director: MUSCLE SAKAI, Tetsuaki Matsue (DDT: Dramatic Dream Team!! -We are Japanese Wrestlers!-), Macoto Tezka (THE BRAND NEW LEGEND OF THE STARDUST BROTHERS), Hajime Anzai (HENTAIDA (I am a pervert))
Japanese Cinema Splash
  • 11/02 22:20-
  • Drama
  • Comedy
Stephen Frears, Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant team up for the first time on Florence Foster Jenkins, an inspirational, poignant, heart-warming comedy about love, music, and the pursuit of dreams. Bas...
Director: Stephen Frears
Special Screenings/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/25 19:00-
  • 10/25 19:05-
  • Drama
Satoshi Murayama, the shogi (Japanese chess) master known as the arch-rival of Yoshiharu Habu, the shogi genius of the century, died of an intractable disease at age 29. Satoshi devoted his life to...
Director: Yoshitaka Mori
Special Screenings
  • 11/02 18:30-
  • Comedy
  • Romance
“The short cut to true love is to be yourself”. Two very different lovelorn find each other in this most endearing romance starring the lead vocalist for the Asian boy band SUPER JUNIOR, YESUNG, wh...
Director: Yuzo Asahara
Special Screenings
  • 10/25 12:30-
  • Comedy
  • Romance
  • Youth Drama
Having sold over 35 million copies and being TV-dramatized in various regions, the comic “itazurana KISS” is finally coming to the big screen for the first time. Including a new episode that has ne...
Director: Minoru Mizoguchi
Special Screenings/World Premiere
  • 11/02 14:30-
  • Drama
  • Animation
Written by the award-winning manga artist Fumiyo Kouno and directed by Sunao Katabuchi (Mai Mai Miracle), this heart-warming story, supported by crowd-funding, took six years of research with the h...
Director: Sunao Katabuchi
Special Screenings/World Premiere
  • 10/28 15:20-
  • Suspense
Jesse is a young model who has just moved to Los Angeles, fresh-faced beauty which captivates everyone. The head of her agency feels that she has the "certain something" needed to become a top star...
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Special Screenings
  • 10/27 20:55-
  • Drama
  • Romance
  • Youth Drama
Acclaimed director of Summer of Chirusoku, Half a Confession and Yunagi City, Sakura Country Kiyoshi Sasabe casts Rin Takanashi and Takumi Saitoh as members of the farming industry. The Sowing Trav...
Director: Kiyoshi Sasabe
Special Screenings
  • 10/28 18:15-
  • Drama
This is the story of Nat Turner, the legendary leader of the nation's largest and most effective antebellum slave uprising, which took place in 1831. An up-and-coming young actor, Nate Parker spent...
Director: Nate Parker
Special Screenings/Japanese Premiere
  • 11/02 20:30-
  • Drama
The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill. Miss You Already is a touching movie with smiles and tears, starring great actr...
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Special Screenings/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/27 17:00-
  • Action
  • Suspense
A body mauled to death by dogs is found, and other heinous murders follow. Mysterious notes are left at the crime scenes, hinting the killings were done to punish each victim and the bodies are pre...
Director: Keishi Otomo
Special Screenings
  • 11/01 18:00-
  • Drama
  • Science Fiction/Fantasy
When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team lead by expert linguist Louise Banks is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks a...
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Special Screenings/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/29 17:40-
  • Science Fiction/Fantasy
The world’s first fairytales, "Pentamerone", which inspired the Brothers Grimm, are brought to the screen by the genius Matteo Garrone with his epic vision of cinema. This film is the one and only ...
Director: Matteo Garrone
Special Program/Japanese Premiere
  • 11/01 21:00-
  • Science Fiction/Fantasy
  • Action
  • Animation
The bestselling manga “GANTZ” from Hiroya Oku follows the battle between the resurrected people - those who should otherwise have died - and mysterious aliens. One of the most popular chapters of t...
Director: Keiichi Sato (Executive Director), Yasushi Kawamura (Director)
Special Program
  • 10/29 21:00-
  • Drama
A touching drama about a Mexican boy who tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador, written by Robert Rich, a pseudonym for Dalton Trumbo. Although the film won the...
Director: Irving Rapper
Special Program
  • 11/03 12:30-
  • Science Fiction/Fantasy
  • Action
  • Animation
The greatest threat to humanity has come. Seemingly out of nowhere emerges a group of nine cyborg warriors that has actually fought for human peace all along. "Cyborg009", an eternal hero series cr...
Director: Kodai Kakimoto
Special Program/World Premiere
  • 11/01 18:25-
  • Documentary
This film explores the private experience of prayer and faith in daily life, in a style that is intensely intimate, yet sweeping in scope. A vast international collaboration, the film was shot by o...
Director: Thomas Lennon
Special Program/World Premiere
  • 11/01 17:50-
  • Drama
The film is based on the biography of Xuanzang. It depicts the legendary experiences of Xuanzang, who traveled to ancient India and brought back the original Buddhist scriptures to Tang Dynasty Chi...
Director: Huo Jianqi
Special Program/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/26 10:50-
  • Documentary
In 1962, young French film director Francois Truffaut interviewed Alfred Hitchcock, "The Master of Suspense", who Truffaut admired. These historical interviews revealed the secrets of Hitchcock's f...
Director: Kent Jones
Special Program/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/29 13:20-
  • Drama
  • Romance
  • Action
The latest film by the hit theater company GEKIDAN☆SHINKANSEN, headed by Hidenori Inoue. An all new hybrid entertainment combined with live theater and film. The tension and excitement that comes w...
Director: Hidenori Inoue
Special Program/World Premiere
  • 10/30 18:00-
  • Documentary
Tsuneko Sasamoto and Takeji Muno are 101-year-old journalists. Sasamoto writes about accomplished people both famous and unknown. Her photographs have always reflected ever-changing times, vividly ...
Director: Atsunori Kawamura
Special Program/World Premiere
  • 11/01 10:10-
  • Drama
  • Romance
A film director who is location hunting in Kumamoto meets and travels with a young woman. He used to live there and has returned after many years to give something to his first crush. It turns out ...
Director: Isao Yukisada
Special Program
  • 10/27 16:35-
  • Documentary
The first Tokyo Olympics opened on October 10th 1964, but filmmaker Kon Ichikawa was only chosen to be the overall director of this documentary five months prior. He made it very clear to his crew ...
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Special Program
  • 11/02 14:00-
  • Drama
Clara, a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. She is the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story building, buil...
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/28 10:55-
  • 10/30 16:20-
  • 10/31 16:30-
  • Drama
  • Comedy
After refusing prestigious awards all over the world, Mr. Mantovani, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, accepts an invitation to visit his hometown in Argentina, which has been the inspiration ...
Director: Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/26 15:20-
  • 10/28 21:05-
  • 10/31 10:20-
  • Youth Drama
Three undocumented teenagers - a Dominican girl, an African boy, and a Peruvian girl - are just about to graduate high school in the Bronx. Like most teenagers, all they want to do is hang with the...
Director: Matthew Newton
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/27 10:40-
  • 10/31 21:25-
  • Drama
Railroad worker Tsanko Petrov finds millions of lev on the train tracks. He decides to turn the entire amount over to the police, and the state rewards him with a new wristwatch, but soon the new w...
Director: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/29 21:05-
  • 10/31 14:25-
  • Drama
  • Romance
  • Youth Drama
Summer 1962, Olli Mäki has a shot at the world championship title in featherweight boxing. From the Finnish countryside to the bright lights of Helsinki, everything has been prepared for his fame a...
Director: Juho Kuosmanen
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/31 11:10-
  • 11/01 21:25-
  • Drama
Director Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar parallels the stories of two teenage girls. Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she w...
Director: Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/27 10:20-
  • 11/02 13:40-
  • Drama
Self-centered filmmaker Rey, during a screening of his films, wanders into an adjoining gallery and becomes mesmerized by a young performance artist. Dumping his leading lady and long-time lover, R...
Director: Benoît Jacquot
World Focus/Asian Premiere
  • 10/30 11:20-
  • 10/31 16:55-
  • 11/01 14:50-
  • Youth Drama
One morning in Paris. A fistful of adolescents, from different backgrounds. Individually, they begin a strange dance through the labyrinth of the metro and the streets of the capital. They seem to ...
Director: Bertrand Bonello
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/26 11:05-
  • 10/27 20:20-
  • 10/31 12:15-
  • Drama
After his concentrated bird surveying causes his boat to capsize, the unconscious Fernando is washed ashore and rescued by two young, seemingly innocent female Chinese pilgrims, who are lost on the...
Director: João Pedro Rodrigues
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/30 14:20-
  • 11/01 14:45-
  • 11/02 10:35-
  • Documentary
Africa. In the wild expanses, where bushbucks, impalas, zebras, gnus, and other creatures graze by the thousands, they are on holiday. German and Austrian hunting tourists drive through the bush, l...
Director: Ulrich Seidl
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/26 20:55-
  • 10/31 18:00-
  • Drama
Somewhere in Bucharest, three days after the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris and forty days after his father’s death, 40-year-old doctor Lary spends one Saturday at a family gathering in memory of...
Director: Cristi Puiu
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/27 13:00-
  • 10/28 14:20-
  • 10/30 20:05-
  • Drama
Since the arrival of the new teacher, Mária Drazdechová, to a Bratislava suburban school in the year 1983, life has been turned upside down for students and parents. The teacher’s corrupt behavior ...
Director: Jan Hřebejk
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
  • 11/02 18:50-
  • 11/03 16:00-
  • Documentary
This is a portrait of an artist whose exceptional approach to art and life defined him as one of the most ardent admirers of life itself. The leading aim of this documentary is to share 76 minutes ...
Director: Seifollah Samadian
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/27 13:40-
  • 10/30 11:40-
  • Documentary
Abbas Kiarostami takes his camera to the south of Italy and gives us a beautiful and playful video of alleys and stairs. This short film is his last work and will be screened together with a docum...
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
World Focus
  • 10/27 13:40-
  • 10/30 11:40-
  • Drama
Aiman is a 28-year-old Malay correctional officer who is recently transferred to the territory’s top prison. At his new workplace, Aiman begins to take an interest in a 65-year-old sergeant named R...
Director: Boo Junfeng
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/27 13:40-
  • 10/29 13:25-
  • Drama
Cairo, summer of 2013, two years after the Egyptian revolution. In the wake of the ouster of Islamist president Morsi, a police truck full of detained demonstrators of divergent political and relig...
Director: Mohamed Diab
World Focus/Asian Premiere
  • 10/26 11:00-
  • 10/31 13:50-
  • 11/01 10:30-
  • Romance
  • Youth Drama
Diamond Island is a symbol of Cambodia's future, a sprawling, ultra-modern paradise for the rich on the river in Phnom Penh. Like many other country boys, Bora, 18, is lured from his village to wor...
Director: Davy Chou
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/30 21:20-
  • 11/02 10:30-
  • Drama
  • Action
Prabhu (R. Madhavan) is an arrogant, rude but highly successful women's boxing coach. He becomes a victim of boxing association politics and is transferred to Tamil Nadu. He decides to make a champ...
Director: Sudha Kongara
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/31 20:05-
  • 11/01 11:10-
  • 11/02 17:10-
  • Drama
Na Dow carries out his drug-delivering routine by taking a cab down south and returning in the same cab on the same day. One day he reluctantly gets into a shabby taxi driven by the carefree, innoc...
Director: Chung Mong-hong
World Focus/Asian Premiere
  • 10/27 17:20-
  • 10/29 10:20-
  • Drama
  • Science Fiction/Fantasy
Interconnected narrative threads about the Philippine Revolution of 1896-1897 characterize {A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery}: The story of the ballad "Jocelynang Baliwag", which became the hymn ...
Director: Lav Diaz
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/29 13:50-
  • 10/31 13:20-
  • Action
Two Chinese commercial vessels are ambushed while traveling down the Mekong River in the waters of the Golden Triangle. 13 sailors are executed at gunpoint, and 900,000 methamphetamine pills are re...
Director: Dante Lam
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/26 14:15-
  • 10/27 20:50-
  • 10/28 11:40-
  • Drama
  • Romance
The mother of the painter Young-soo is gravely ill. He hears that his girlfriend Min-jung drank with a man and fought with him. They argue that night, and Min-jung leaves, saying they shouldn't see...
Director: Hong Sang-soo
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/26 12:20-
  • 10/28 14:30-
  • 10/30 14:00-
  • Drama
  • Youth Drama
Set in Taipei in the 1960s. A night school student, Xiao Si'r, always hangs out with his gang of delinquent friends, the Little Park Boys. One day, Xiao Si'r meets a girl named Ming, girlfriend of ...
Director: Edward Yang
World Focus
  • 11/03 11:20-
  • Drama
  • Comedy
  • Romance
Nobody decides to become a doctor with the idea of saving others' lives as the primary goal. The first person they are trying to save is themselves.The top three reasons for entering medical school...
Director: Ifa Isfansyah
The Japan Foundation Asia Center presents CROSSCUT ASIA #03 COLORFUL INDONESIA/International Premiere
  • 10/29 17:10-
  • 10/30 20:20-
  • Drama
  • Romance
Athirah's life is shattered when another woman enters her husband's life. In a time and cultural background where polygamy is still widely accepted, Athirah struggles alone with the hurt and humili...
Director: Riri Riza
The Japan Foundation Asia Center presents CROSSCUT ASIA #03 COLORFUL INDONESIA/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/25 13:20-
  • 10/28 18:20-
  • Comedy
  • Youth Drama
  • Music
Three sassy sisters, Gendis (32), Ella (28), and Bebe (19), are very passionate about running their family boutique hotel by the beach in the eastern part of Indonesia's archipelago. Their grandmot...
Director: Nia Dinata
The Japan Foundation Asia Center presents CROSSCUT ASIA #03 COLORFUL INDONESIA/World Premiere
  • 10/26 11:20-
  • 10/29 20:50-
  • Youth Drama
  • Science Fiction/Fantasy
Alisha (Ladya Cheryl) is a young woman with a traumatic background. She never feels alive in her big house until she sees Bari (Donny Alamsyah), a writer who lives in a block of flats with his long...
Director: Mouly Surya
The Japan Foundation Asia Center presents CROSSCUT ASIA #03 COLORFUL INDONESIA/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/31 11:20-
  • 11/01 13:50-
  • Youth Drama
The movie is a tale about soul-searching and making peace with the past through coffee. Ben and Jody are two friends and owners of "Filosofi Kopi", a sophisticated coffee shop known for serving onl...
Director: Angga Dwimas Sasongko
The Japan Foundation Asia Center presents CROSSCUT ASIA #03 COLORFUL INDONESIA/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/27 10:50-
  • 11/02 20:35-
  • Romance
  • Science Fiction/Fantasy
Legends abound on the Indonesian island of Sawai, but when a young woman arrives to find out more about a story her grandmother told her, no one knows anything about Halimah, who ran away from her ...
Director: Edwin
The Japan Foundation Asia Center presents CROSSCUT ASIA #03 COLORFUL INDONESIA
  • 10/27 20:15-
  • 10/30 16:50-
  • Drama
Diana, a 30-year-old housewife, lives with her husband and son at home, across the street from a building construction site. She spends every day with her only child, waiting for her husband to com...
Director: Kamila Andini
The Japan Foundation Asia Center presents CROSSCUT ASIA #03 COLORFUL INDONESIA/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/27 20:15-
  • 10/30 16:50-
  • Drama
The story is about a simple Muslim girl named Cahaya (19) who is from a Javanese village arriving in the big city to find her long-lost father. This girl, with strong Islamic values, discovers that...
Director: Teddy Soeriaatmadja
The Japan Foundation Asia Center presents CROSSCUT ASIA #03 COLORFUL INDONESIA
  • 10/27 17:35-
  • 10/29 11:30-
  • Romance
  • Erotic Drama
Ahmad (27) is a strongly devoted Muslim who drives a cab during the night shift and practices his religion during the day. Beneath this humble surface, Ahmad is a compulsive masturbator, obsessed w...
Director: Teddy Soeriaatmadja
The Japan Foundation Asia Center presents CROSSCUT ASIA #03 COLORFUL INDONESIA
  • 10/28 10:25-
  • 10/29 14:10-
  • Romance
Dayu, 64, is an aging widower who has been living on her own for the past fifteen years. After the departure of a housemaid who has been working for her for many years, Dayu hires a 17-year-old boy...
Director: Teddy Soeriaatmadja
The Japan Foundation Asia Center presents CROSSCUT ASIA #03 COLORFUL INDONESIA/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/31 17:50-
  • 11/02 17:30-
  • Drama
After the Curfew (Lewat Djam Malam) is a passionate that looks directly at a crucial moment of conflict in Indonesian history: the aftermath of the four-year Republican revolution that brought an e...
Director: Usmar Ismail
The Japan Foundation Asia Center presents CROSSCUT ASIA #03 COLORFUL INDONESIA/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/31 14:40-
  • 11/01 10:40-
  • Drama
  • Romance
The Asian Three-Fold Mirror project brings together three globally acclaimed directors to co-create omnibus films with a common theme. This year, under the theme of "Living Together in Asia", direc...
Director: Brillante Ma Mendoza (SHINIUMA Dead Horse)
Isao Yukisada (Pigeon)
Sotho Kulikar (Beyond The Bridge)
Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2016: Reflections/World Premiere
  • 10/26 14:55-
  • 11/03 10:50-
  • Drama
  • Suspense
A new masterpiece will be born into the pantheon of Japanese film! This highly anticipated release from the team of Villain is a whodunit about a murder in this paranoid era where the advancement o...
Director: Lee Sang-il
Japan Now
  • 10/30 20:25-
  • Animation
In this ambitious new feature-length animated motion picture, up-and-coming animation director, Makoto Shinkai teams up with Masayoshi Tanaka, character designer for Anohana: The Flower We Saw Tha...
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Japan Now
  • 10/27 10:35-
  • Youth Drama
  • Suspense
Kanae Minato (Original Novel), Yukiko Mishima (Director), Tsubasa Honda, and Mizuki Yamamoto - the four women launch the sensational mystery about “death”. The film shows the hidden “dark side” in ...
Director: Yukiko Mishima
Japan Now
  • 10/27 20:55-
  • Action
The first film in 12 years from the domestic Godzilla series, a franchise that represents Japan. Written and co-directed by Hideaki Anno (“Evangelion”). A spectacular visual expression has reincarn...
Director: Executive Director : Hideaki Anno
Japan Now
  • 10/30 17:05-
  • Romance
  • Horror
  • Suspense
While assisting Stephane to photograph his daughter Marie, Jean falls in love with her. But the daguerreotype shooting comes with love and pain. Marie is trapped in photographer's maddening love an...
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Japan Now
  • 10/27 13:55-
  • Drama
  • Suspense
An ordinary married woman is getting caught up with a hairstylist who enters an empty place in her heart. Her abnormal obsession toward the man gets growing. Takako Tokiwa and Sosuke Ikematsu acted...
Director: Yoichi Higashi
Japan Now
  • 10/30 10:25-
  • Drama
  • Comedy
Hinako and Seiji close up their herbal remedy store and move to a housing project in Osaka for mysterious reasons. Their neighbors are curious about them and develop more suspicions when one day Se...
Director: Junji Sakamoto
Japan Now
  • 10/31 20:50-
  • Comedy
  • Youth Drama
  • Music
High school student Daisuke is in love with his classmate Hiromi. But after a bus accident during a school trip he wakes up in hell! "Why just me? I haven’t even kissed anybody!" he wonders. Killer...
Director: Kankuro Kudo
Japan Now
  • 10/26 19:00-
  • Drama
  • Suspense
Toshio runs a metalworking factory. One day an old acquaintance, Yasaka appears. Toshio hires and allows him to move in with Toshio's family. Yasaka eventually disturbs Toshio's peaceful life and v...
Director: Koji Fukada
Japan Now
  • 10/30 13:40-
  • Drama
The Sachino family used to run a bathhouse before the father disappeared. Futaba, a cheerful and determined mother raising her daughter alone, learns that she has only two months to live. She quick...
Director: Ryota Nakano
Japan Now
  • 10/27 17:30-
  • Drama
Four women, all in their 30s, and three married, one divorced. They can tell each other everything. Or at least they thought they could... One day, after losing a divorce court battle, one of them ...
Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Japan Now
  • 10/29 22:30-
  • Youth Drama
School children Norimichi (Yuta Yamazaki), Yusuke (Takayuki Sorita), and Junichi (Kenji Kohashi) want to know if fireworks look round or flat from the side. They make a plan to find the answer at a...
Director: Shunji Iwai
Japan Now
  • 10/28 12:00-
  • Drama
Two years after her fiancé’s death, Hiroko Watanabe tries to relieve her grief by mailing him a letter. It is delivered to a young woman in his hometown who has her fiancé’s name, Itsuki Fujii. Hir...
Director: Shunji Iwai
Japan Now
  • 10/28 16:00-
  • Drama
In a fantasy time long ago, when the yen was the strongest currency in the world, there was a Japanese city that immigrants called "Yen Town". The Japanese resented the name and discriminated again...
Director: Shunji Iwai
Japan Now
  • 10/28 20:00-
  • Drama
  • Romance
A man meets a woman who calls herself Jellyfish. Although strangers to each other, they plan to die together. Jellyfish wants to have the best day before she dies and he suggests a special method f...
Director: Shunji Iwai
Japan Now
  • 10/29 12:00-
  • Drama
  • Youth Drama
Nanami loses her job due to a lack of confidence. She marries a man she met online, but the marriage ends when she is falsely accused of infidelity. Jack-of-all-trades, Amuro saves her by introduci...
Director: Shunji Iwai
Japan Now
  • 10/29 16:00-
  • Romance
  • Horror
A global masterpiece and winner of several awards, including the Silver Lion at 14th Venice. Restored by the Film Foundation (chaired by Martin Scorsese) and Kadokawa under the supervision of cinem...
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Japanese Classics/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/30 14:20-
  • Romance
The best masterpiece of the Mikio Naruse director work which drew love and the tragedy of the woman who degraded herself together with a loose man during the postwar confusion period for wartime.Fl...
Director: Mikio Naruse
Japanese Classics
  • 11/01 13:00-
  • Science Fiction/Fantasy
  • Action
The first color film and the biggest hit in the series. America's King Kong and Japan’s Godzilla duel in this third film of the series. The film was cut by 24 minutes to make an edited version, but...
Director: Ishiro Honda
Japanese Classics
  • 11/01 17:00-
  • Romance
  • Action
  • Suspense
Tremendous production with 2.45 billion yen investment and Antarctic location. Digitally restored after 36 years to mark Kadokawa Pictures' 40th anniversary, under the supervision of cinematographe...
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Japanese Classics
  • 10/28 10:20-
  • Romance
  • Action
This is a film adaptation of Toshio Kamata's "Shin Satomi Hakkenden" which is loosely based on "Nansō Satomi Hakkenden". The Satomi family has been destroyed and Princess Shizu, who escaped, is pur...
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Japanese Classics
  • 10/31 19:20-
  • Drama
Bakin Takizawa's epic serial was made into a historical fantasy film with a bold new interpretation. The film was digitally restored after 33 years to commemorate Kadokawa Pictures' 40th anniversar...
Director: Tomiyasu Ikeda
Japanese Classics
  • 10/31 16:35-
  • Drama
  • Action
■DATE: October 27 (Thu) Open16:30 Strat17:30■Dress Code: Business Casual■PROGRAM: Kabuki Performance “Sagi Musume (Heron Maiden)” (produced by SHOCHIKU), Film Screenings Chûshingura (Digitally Rema...
Director: Blood's Up at Takata-no-Baba (Chikemuri Takata-no-Baba) Daisuke Ito
Chûshingura (Digitally Remastered) Tomiyasu Ikeda
TIFF2016 presents Special Night Event at Kabukiza Theatre
  • 10/27 17:30-
  • Youth Drama
When 14-year-old Jennifer claims to have been raped by her classmate, people are convinced that she is lying. Evidence and decisions of court mean nothing to people who lay down their own rules and...
Director: Beata Gårdeler
Youth
  • 10/30 13:20-
  • 11/03 14:05-
  • Youth Drama
Little Men explores the deepening friendship between two artistic boys whose families enter into a heated battle over the rent of their shared brownstone in a quickly gentrifying Brooklyn.Jake (The...
Director: Ira Sachs
Youth
  • 10/26 20:00-
  • 11/03 17:20-
  • Youth Drama
When a black teen moves to Germany with his single father, he must deal with culture shock and his infatuation with a rebellious girl, all while dreaming of becoming a hip hop star.Morris from Amer...
Director: Chad Hartigan
Youth/Japanese Premiere
  • 10/30 10:20-
  • 11/03 11:05-
  • Animation
One day, a lonely boy Kyuta encounters a Beast, Kumatetsu, and decides to become the Beast's apprentice in order to get strong. They clash about everything at first, but their shared experience hel...
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
The World of Mamoru HOSODA
  • 10/30 10:40-
  • Animation
A college student Hana falls in love with a "wolf man". They soon have a girl Yuki and a boy Ame, who are both human and wolf, but the father suddenly passes away. Hana decides to move to the count...
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
The World of Mamoru HOSODA
  • 10/26 20:00-
  • Animation
Kenji, a math whiz but a normal high school boy, faces a world crisis which broke out in a virtual city called "OZ". Natsuki, the girl of his dreams, and her relatives living in the countryside of ...
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
The World of Mamoru HOSODA
  • 10/28 13:35-
  • Animation
An animation film based on the original novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui. Makoto, a high school girl suddenly gains the ability to leap back in time. She uses this ability to constanly go back to fix pett...
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
The World of Mamoru HOSODA
  • 10/29 10:20-
  • 10/31 11:50-
  • Animation
"DIGIMON ADVENTURE"1999 | 21min. | ColorHosoda's theatrical debut work, released as one of triple features at Toei Anime Fair. Set in Tokyo, Chosen Children encounter newly-born Digimon for the fir...
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
The World of Mamoru HOSODA
  • 10/27 20:20-
  • 11/02 19:50-
  • Documentary
Director Mamoru Hosoda's life-long theme is "affirmation of life". Many of his works are filled with hopes, but the path he took was not always sunny. Having repeatedly crawled out of the abyss of ...
Director: Yuya Tanabe
The World of Mamoru HOSODA
  • 10/28 19:00-
  • Animation
Special Talk w/Mamoru Hosoda and DaisukeA “Dice” Tsutsumi will be held with "The Dam Keeper", "Moom" screening.
Director:
The World of Mamoru HOSODA
  • 10/29 16:00-
  • Drama
Chinese girl Lotus Flower (May Wong) finds Allen (Harlan), an American, washed ashore and looks after him. They fall in love and marry, but Allen returns home, leaving Lotus behind. Lotus gives bir...
Director: Chester Franklin
Film Treasures from UCLA Film & Television Archive
  • 10/27 19:00-
  • 11/05 11:30-
  • Drama
Early 19th century during the Napoleonic Wars, Becky (Hopkins) and Amelia (Dee) finish school together. Socially ambitious Becky tries to link up with gentlemen and manages to marry Captain Rawdon ...
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Film Treasures from UCLA Film & Television Archive
  • 10/25 15:00-
  • 11/05 13:30-
  • Drama
  • Action
In 1882 the Earp brothers are driving cattle they bought in Mexico to California. While the eldest brother Wyatt (Fonda) stops in Tombstone, the youngest brother James is murdered and the cattle ru...
Director: John Ford
Film Treasures from UCLA Film & Television Archive
  • 10/25 19:00-
  • 11/03 13:00-
  • Drama
  • Action
  • Suspense
Lawyer Joe (Garfield) works for Tucker (Roberts) who wants to control the numbers racket in New York. Joe tries to help his brother Leo (Gomez) who runs a small illegal bank, but old grudges get in...
Director: Abraham Polonsky
Film Treasures from UCLA Film & Television Archive
  • 10/30 12:30-
  • 11/04 19:00-
  • Drama
Director: Max Ophüls
Film Treasures from UCLA Film & Television Archive
  • 10/30 16:00-
  • 11/02 15:00-
  • Drama
Someone in an oncoming car throws a bag of cash in Alan (Kennedy) and Jane's (Scott) car at night. Jane persuades Alan to keep the money but Danny (Duryea) comes to demand its return. Alan's sister...
Director: Byron Haskin
Film Treasures from UCLA Film & Television Archive
  • 10/26 19:00-
  • 10/29 12:30-
  • Drama
  • Suspense
Howard (Lovejoy) lives in California with his family. Out of desperation for a job, he joins Jerry (Bridges) in a crime which escalates to kidnap and murder. They are arrested, and the mobs, instig...
Director: Cy Endfield
Film Treasures from UCLA Film & Television Archive
  • 10/27 15:00-
  • 10/29 16:30-
  • Action
Stride (Scott) is tracking seven men who killed his wife during a robbery, and helps a couple on the way. He meets his nemesis Masters (Marvin) at a station but parts company on a stormy night. Str...
Director: Budd Boetticher
Film Treasures from UCLA Film & Television Archive
  • 10/26 15:00-
  • 11/03 16:00-
  • Drama
Leach, a drug addict, and jazz musicians are waiting for a dealer to arrive at his apartment in New York. They have been assembled by Dunn, a budding film director, to make a documentary but shooti...
Director: Shirley Clarke
Film Treasures from UCLA Film & Television Archive
  • 11/04 15:00-
  • 11/06 16:30-
  • Drama
  • Suspense
Popular stand-up comic (Beatty) flees Detroit after incurring the wrath of his boss and the audience. He starts over in Chicago as Mickey One and falls in love with Jenny (Stewart). As he tentative...
Director: Arthur Penn
Film Treasures from UCLA Film & Television Archive
  • 11/02 19:00-
  • 11/06 14:00-
  • Drama
  • Comedy
Members of the James Dean fan club meet at Juanita (Bond) 's general store in Texas after 20 years. In addition to the members of the club, Mona (Dennis), Stella (Bates), Sissy (Cher) and Edna (Hef...
Director: Robert Altman
Film Treasures from UCLA Film & Television Archive
  • 10/28 19:00-
  • 11/06 11:00-
  • Drama
  • Suspense
Matewan coal miners in West Virginia go on strike in protest at a wage cut. Joined by union organizer Joe (Cooper) they win over black and Italian miners, who have been brought in as scabs, without...
Director: John Sayles
Film Treasures from UCLA Film & Television Archive
  • 10/28 15:00-
  • 11/05 16:00-
  • Science Fiction/Fantasy
  • Action
  • Animation
KINGSGLAIVE FINAL FANTASY XV, a full-length feature taking place along the most anticipated upcoming game FINAL FANTASY XV’s timeline. Enjoy the world’s best quality of CG in 4KHDR.
Director: Takeshi Nozue
Open-Air Cinema Arena/World Premiere
  • 10/26 18:00-
  • Action
Ultimate action Entertainment with the greatest boosting power in Spider-man history!
Director: Marc Webb
Open-Air Cinema Arena
  • 10/30 17:40-
  • Science Fiction/Fantasy
From legendary director Ridley Scott (Alien, Prometheus) comes a gripping tale of human strength and the will to survive, starring Matt Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars.
Director: Ridley Scott
Open-Air Cinema Arena
  • 10/29 17:40-
  • Science Fiction/Fantasy
  • Action
Why is he left behind on Earth where humans no longer live? Oblvion is a sci-fi action blockbuster starring Tom Cruise. Directed by Joseph Kosinski of Tron: Legacy.
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Open-Air Cinema Arena
  • 10/27 18:00-
  • Science Fiction/Fantasy
  • Action
J.J. Abrams (Mission: Impossible III, Cloverfield) audaciously updated the world of Star Trek in an action adventure.
Director: J.J. Abrams
Open-Air Cinema Arena
  • 10/28 18:00-
  • Romance
  • Youth Drama
A timeless tale of romance, friendship, and growth starring Richard Gere. A navy officer candidate and a local girl working at a factory fall in love. Louis Gossett Jr. who played the instructor, w...
Director: Taylor Hackford
Open-Air Cinema Arena
  • 10/28 15:00-
  • Science Fiction/Fantasy
  • Action
There are many ghosts in New York City. Ghostbusters are the only hope who can face and stop this crisis!
Director: Ivan Reitman
Open-Air Cinema Arena
  • 10/26 15:00-
  • Drama
  • Youth Drama
The timeless masterpiece described 12 years boys` adventure during one summer vacation.
Director: Rob Reiner
Open-Air Cinema Arena
  • 10/30 12:00-
  • Romance
  • Youth Drama
  • Action
Top Gun is an all-time blockbuster and Tom Cruise's breakthrough movie about glory and setback of Maverick, a top student at the navy's elite fighter school.
Director: Tony Scott
Open-Air Cinema Arena
  • 10/27 15:00-
  • Romance
  • Youth Drama
A coming-of-age drama about a young woman who works as a welder by day and exotic dancer at night, pursuing her dream of becoming a professional dancer. Directed by Adrian Lyne (Foxes).
Director: Adrian Lyne
Open-Air Cinema Arena
  • 10/30 15:00-
  • Drama
A short movie about boys and girls growing up with Pokémon's in Hawaii, the location where the Nintendo 3DS games "Pokémon Sun" and "Pokémon Moon" take place. There will be a movie screening, and s...
Director: Michihito Fujii
Open-Air Cinema Arena
  • 10/29 15:30-
  • Drama
  • Comedy
  • Documentary
The TV program "CINEMA STUDIO" on WOWOW holds a talk event and screens 3 movies not released in theaters in Japan including a documentary on Star Wars.I AM YOUR FATHER2015 82min SpainDavi...
Director: Toni Bestard, Marcos Cabota (I AM YOUR FATHER)
Julio Medem (Ma ma)
Michael Winterbottom (The Trip)
All night screening presented by WOWOW's "CINEMA STUDIO" featuring Star Wars documentary
  • 10/28 21:30-
  • Drama
2016 PFF Grand-prix winning film will be screened. Also a special lecture for young filmmakers on how to make a movie on your own way will be held.Special Collaboration with PFF 2016 PFF Grand-Prix...
Director: Takashi Komatsu ("OUT OF THE FRYING PAN..." ) / Isora Iwakiri ("flowering")
Special Collaboration with PFF 2016 PFF Award-Winning Film Screening
  • 11/01 15:00-
  • Drama
  • Comedy
Good Bye, Talking DogMadoka Kumagai’s debut feature Good Bye, Talking Dog is a touching comedy for everyone who has dreamed of an alternative life. It’s a celebration of humanity with laugther and...
Director: Madoka Kumagai
Screening of SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL D-Cinema FESTIVAL 2016
  • 11/02 14:20-
  • Animation
Venue: Tokyo International Forum Hall CThe highest-profile animation film this winter, Genocidal Organ , will be featured. Special footage, only available at this event, will be screened. Special g...
Director:
Animation Special Projects TIFF ANI!!
  • 10/31 16:00-
  • Animation
Venue: Tokyo International Forum Hall CTIFF continues showcasing the latest trends in Japanese animations. On Halloween, films, music, and animes are brought together to start a new project which c...
Director:
Animation Special Projects TIFF ANI!!
  • 10/31 19:30-
  • Romance
The Minato Screening is a popular program every year for whole family from children to adults. It is co-hosted with the TIFF Minato City Committee, which was set up to facilitate the community as a...
Director:
Minato Screening
  • 10/29 10:25-
  • Horror
  • Suspense
The Minato Screening is a popular program every year for whole family from children to adults. It is co-hosted with the TIFF Minato City Committee, which was set up to facilitate the community as a...
Director:
Minato Screening
  • 10/29 16:25-
  • Documentary
Yamaguchi Sayoko, Asia's first top model who appeared in fashion shows around the world and was praised for her "oriental mystique" in the 1970s, is the subject of this documentary.
Director: Takako Matsumoto
Bunka-cho Film Week 2016
  • Documentary
A documentary about a children's center in its 38th year located in the heart of the day laborers’ town of Kamagasaki, Osaka. People's struggles are portrayed with tears and laughter.
Director: Yoshiki Shigee
Bunka-cho Film Week 2016
  • Documentary
A local TV station in western Japan follows a couple living in a remote mountain without water or electricity over 25 years. This is a film adaptation of a very popular TV series.
Director: Akira Sasaki
Bunka-cho Film Week 2016
  • Drama
  • Youth Drama
  • Music
PIETA IN THE TOILETBased on the diary of Osamu Tezuka, "God of Comics", PIETA IN THE TOILET is the first feature-length film for Daishi Matsunaga, who was highly-regarded with his documentary film...
Director: Daishi Matsunaga
Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award Film Screening and Symposium
  • 10/26 17:00-
  • Science Fiction/Fantasy
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the “ULTRAMAN” series’ first broadcast. To celebrate, the original production company, Tsuburaya Productions has created the “KINJO TETSUO AWARD”. Kinjo was ...
Director:
50 years since broadcasting of the ULTRAMAN series Special Program: Scriptwriter Tetsuo Kinjo
  • 11/03 17:00-
  • Drama
  • Comedy
  • Animation
This year marks the 6th edition of the Japan Student Film Festival. The festival is a celebration of student film. Five shorts (totaling 111 minutes) will be shown, including the top award-winning ...
Director: Yuki Murakami(My Sister Is Whale)
Tomoki Misato(Look at Me Only)
Nichika Sakai(Toilet Hazard ~Let's eat together~)
Lily Erlinger(The Bad Old Us)
Ataru Sakagami(A Place to Name)
The 6th Japan Student Film Festival
  • 11/03 14:40-
  • 8th KYOTO HISTORICA INTERNAITONAL FILM FESTIVAL to Co-host TIFF @ Kyoto Week!|2016.11.1[TUE]〜11.13[SUN]
  • 8th KYOTO HISTORICA INTERNAITONAL FILM FESTIVAL to Co-host TIFF @ Kyoto Week!|2016.11.1[TUE]〜11.13[SUN]
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