Ando Momoko Set as Ambassador for Tokyo Film Festival – Global Bulletin
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Noted Japanese director Ando Momoko (“Kakera: Pieces of Our Life,” “0.5mm”) has been named as the ambassador for this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival.
She also features, alongside her father Okuda Eiji in the festival’s newly-released poster, which recreates a scene from Ozu Yasujiro’s “Tokyo Story” and in which Okuda and Ando represent the classic film’s Ryu Chishu and Hara Setsuko characters.
The poster image, shot at the rooftop garden of Kitte Marunouchi Building, with Tokyo Station in the background, was designed by Koshino Junko, who has created the festival’s key visuals for the past three years.
This is the 120th anniversary of Japanese film master Ozu’s birth, and the 60th anniversary of his death. The festival, which says that its key themes this year will be “diversity” and “the possibilities of cinema,” will run Oct.
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