‘11 Rebels’ Period Thriller Set to Open Tokyo Film Festival
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Period thriller “11 Rebels” has been set as the opening film of next month’s Tokyo International Film Festival.
Directed by the prolific Shiraishi Kazuya from a previously-unproduced screenplay by the late Kasahara Kazuo, the film stars popular actors Yamada Takayuki and Nakano Taiga. “We expect this powerful film to mark a spectacular opening to the festival,” Tokyo festival organizers said.
The festival runs from Oct. 28 to Nov. 6 in the Hibiya-Yurakucho-Marunouchi-Ginza area. Organizers also said that the festival will close with French-Italian comedy “Marcello Mio,” in which French actress Chiara Mastroianni, plays a character who turns into her real-life father, the famous film director Marcello Mastroianni.
Directed by Christophe Honore, the film had its world premiere in competition at the Cannes festival in May. Chiara Mastroianni has previously been announced as a member of the jury that will select the main competition winners in Tokyo this year. “This is a unique film that serves as both an homage to Marcello Mastroianni and an experimental piece, in which many French actors, including the lead Chiara Mastroianni, appear under their real names, blurring the boundary between the stars’ true selves and fiction.
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