Tokyo Film Festival’s Full Lineup Is Long on China, Animation and Marcello Mastroianni
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The Tokyo International Film Festival has unveiled a competition section with as many Chinese titles as Japanese for its 37th edition.
Announced on Wednesday the festival’s full lineup runs to a compact 110 films, culled from a huge 2,023 applications, and functions partly as discovery event, partly as a Japanese showcase and also as best-of the year international art house compendium.
The 15-title competition includes Mizi Z’s “The Unseen Sister,” “Big World,” by Yang Lina and “My Friend An Delie,” by Dong Zijian from China.
Adding rising star Hong Kong director Philip Yung’s “Papa” and Huang Xi’s Sylvia Chang-starring “Daughter’s Daughter,” fresh from Toronto, and the competition will resound to Chinese accents.
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