It is with regret that TIFF must inform you that Ms. Nadine Labaki, director and actress of Caramel scheduled for Winds of Asia-Middle East screening has cancelled her visit to Japan.

Her stage appearance scheduled for Teach-in following the screening on Oct. 21 (Tue) has thus been cancelled. Please note that the screening of Caramel on Oct. 21 (Tue) will be held as on schedule.


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The 21st Tokyo International Film Festival made it’s engagement with Energy Green, Inc. and TOHO Cinemas to utilize green power for all screenings during the festival held from Oct. 18 (Sat) to 26 (Sun) at TOHO Cinemas in Roppongi Hills and other venues. The entire green power required for the screenings will be purchased from Energy Green by the use of Green Power Certificates.



Approximately 23 tons of CO2 will be reduced by purchasing 49,000 kWh of wind-generated Green Power Certificate from Energy Green.*1 This is equivalent to the electricity consumed by 3,200 average households per day.*2



Green Power Plant
The Ishikari Citizen Windmill generates green power for TIFF. The Citizen Windmill was built by civic investment in Ishikari City, Hokkaido.
The Ishikari Citizen Windmill is the fourth of its kind in Japan.

The 119m-high windmill is called “Kazeru-chan” by local schoolchildren.

The Tokyo International Film Festival screens films in languages other than English with English subtitles to enable guest from abroad to enjoy the film as well.


Competition
Special Screenings
Winds of Asia - Middle East
Japanese Eyes
natural TIFF supported by TOYOTA
WORLD CINEMA
Nippon Cinema Classics
animecs TIFF 2008
Special Program
Minato Screening

The recipients for this year's Akira Kurosawa Award has been decided on Director, Nikita Mikhalkov from Russia and Director, Chen Kaige from China. The Akira Kurosawa Award is an honoraly award of the Tokyo International Film Festival established in the year 2004 and is presented to the filmmakers who are recognized for creating numerous films which are extremely humanistic and entertaining.

●Director Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov

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Born in 1945 in Moscow. Mikhalkov was born in the artistic family, his father was a playwright and a novelist; mother was a poet and a writer of children's book. His elder brother is a film director, Andrei Mikhalkov Konchalovsky.

He studied acting at the Moscow Art Theater. He drew attention with his appearance in the film, “I Step through Moscow” (1963). He later entered the VGIK state film school in Moscow and directed two short films. His graduating short film, “A Quiet Day at the End of the War” (1970) was highly appreciated. He made his feature film debut with “At Home Among Strangers” in 1974 and “An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano” (1977) received Golden Shell at San Sebastian International Film Festival. In 1991, his film “Urga” received the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and “Burnt by the Sun” received Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film.

He's other acclaimed films are “A Slave of Love” (1976), “Dark Eyes” (1987), “The Barber of Siberia” (1998) and “12” (2007).


●Director Chen Kaige

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Born in 1952 in Beijing, China. Following his graduation from the Beijing Institute of Cinematography with a degree in directing, Kaige joined the Beijing Film Studio. Over the course of time, he was transferred to the Guangxi Film Studio. In 1984, Kaige made his debut as a director with "The Yellow Earth”, which earned him a silver medal at the Locarno International Film Festival. Kaige has since gained international recognition as one of China’s rising, fifth-generation of directors.

His other films include “The Big Parade”, “King of the Children”, and “wa Koto no Gen no You ni” (a.k.a. Life on a String). His film, “Farewell To My Concubine” was a recipient of the Palme d’Or at the 1993 Cannes International Film Festival and was chosen as only film from mainland China to be selected as One Hundred Best International Films in History by the U.S. Time magazine.

His recent films are “Temptress Moon” (1996), “The Emperor and the Assassin” (1999), “Together” (2002) and “The Promise” (2005).

The music producer, Mr. Takeshi Kobayashi known for Shunji Iwai's film music, Swallowtail and All About Lily Chou-Chou will be the guest for the conference. We will keep updating you with the latest news.

Please accept our sincere gratitude for the fan ballot of determining screening titles for the filmmakers’ perspectives, Directors Angle!

Results for fan ballots of 3 directors are as follows.

Shunji Iwai, Swallowtail

(C)1996 SWALLOWTAIL PRODUCTION COMMITTEE

Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Charisma


Yojiro Takita, No More Comic!



Tickets are on sale at Ticket Pia!

The Screening Details

Dates 10.22 Wed-10.24 Fri
Venue TOHO CINEMAS ROPPONGI HILLS 7
Fee \2,000

Date 10.22 Wed (Conference)
The World of Shunji Iwai
21:40-　Open
22:00-　Conference
Theme “Do the things that you like in your life”
● Speaker　 Shunji Iwai (Director)
● Guest　 Takeshi Kobayashi, and more
● Moderator Shinya Kawai (Producer/TIFF Adviser)

Screenings 0:00-7:30(Scheduled)　

“Love Letter”
1995/Color/117min./35mm/Japanese
● Director　 Shunji Iwai
● Cast　 Miho Nakayama/Etsushi Toyokawa

(C)1995 Fuji Television

“SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY”
1996/Color/148min./35mm/Japanese
● Director　 Shunji Iwai
● Cast　 Hiroshi Mikami/Chara

(C)1996 SWALLOWTAIL PRODUCTION COMMITTEE

“Hana & Alice”
2004/Color/135min./35min/Japanese
● Director　 Shunji Iwai
● Cast　 Anne Suzuki/Yu Aoi

(C)2004 Rockwell Eyes ・H&A Project

Date 10.23 Thu.
The World of Kiyoshi Kurosawa
22:40-　Open
23:00-　Conference
Theme：“Kurosawa films continue to evolve”
● Speaker　 Kiyoshi Kurosawa(Director)
● Guest　 （TBA）
● Moderator Junichi Kobayashi(“Invitation”, Editor in chief)

Screenings 1:00-7:50 (Scheduled)　　
“Matasaburo the wind imp/Kenji Miyazawa”
2003/Color/50min./DV/Japanese
● Director　Kiyoshi Kurosawa
● Cast kyoko koizumi

(C) Matasaburo the wind imp/Kenji Miyazawa

“Soul Dancing”
2004/Color/23min./DV/Japanese
● Director　 Kiyoshi Kurosawa
● Cast　 Tadanobu Asano

“Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself 5: The Nouveau Riche”
1996/Color/81min./35mm/Japanese
● Director　 Kiyoshi Kurosawa
● Cast　 Sho Aikawa/Koyo Maeda


“Serpent's Path”
1997/Color/85min./35mm/Japanese
● Director　 Kiyoshi Kurosawa
● Cast　 Sho Aikawa/Teruyuki Kagawa

(C) Kadokawa Pictures

“Charisma”
1999/Color/103min./35mm/Japanese
● Director　 Kiyoshi Kurosawa
● Cast　 Koji Yakusho/Hiroyuki Ikeuchi


Date 10.24Fri
The World of Yojiro Takita
22:40-　Open
23:00-　Conference
Theme：“Master of Films”
● Speaker　 Yojiro Takita(Director)
● Guest　 （TBA）
● Moderator　Shinya Kawai(Producer/TIFF Adviser)

Screenings 1:00-7:50(Scheduled)　　
“No More Comic!”
1986/Color/124min./35mm/Japanese
● Director　 Yojiro Takita
● Cast　Yuya Uchida/Takeshi Kitano


“The Yen Family”
1988/Color/113min./35mm/Japanese
● Director　 Yojiro Takita
● Cast　Kaori Momoi/Takeshi Kaga

(C)1988 Fuji Television

“Made in Japan”
1993/Color/115min./35mm/Japanese
● Director　 Yojiro Takita
● Cast　Hiroyuki Sanada/Tsutomu Yamazaki

(C)1993 Shochiku

The 21st TIFF’s official web site is announcing the schedules for guest appearances at the Greetings from the stage, Teach-ins and Talk Shows following the screenings to assist the movie-goers to select films of their choices. Information for the screening schedules including such events will be displayed in the Schedule of the web. The time duration of the event will be included in the ending time of the screening. Please note that the dates and times of guests for stage appearances are subject to change.






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The 21st edition of Tokyo International Film Festival will hold a Tribute Screening for the film director, Jun Ichikawa who recently passed away.

Title: BU.SU (※No English subtitles)
Date: Oct. 22 (Wed) (Door opens at 21:00, curtain opens at 21:20)
Venue: TOHO CINEMAS ROPPONGI HILLS Screen6
Ticket Sales: Tickets are available via internet, by telephone, at Ticket Pia.
※No English subtitles


Ticket Fare ￥1,000.

For purchase at Ticket Pia for Director, Jun Ichikawa’s Tribute Impromptu Screening on internet, click here(Japanese Text Only)

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The 21st Tokyo International Film Festival provides HELLO DIAL for telephone inquiries from the english speakers.
For your query convenience use HELLO DIAL.

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We are extremely surprised with the untimely passing of Mr. Jun Ichikawa and offer our sincere mourning for his death. The director, Mr. Ichikawa's new film, buy a suit will screen at the Japanese Eyes section of our main program this year. Mr. Ichikawa created this film with the use of HD Cam in the manner of self produced film. He was known as the director of various masterpieces as such as The Tokyo Siblings, Tokyo Lullaby and Toni Takitani, just to name but a few. His films enjoyed the well deserved reputation from the film festivals of the world. He has returned to his cinematic origin with his film, buy a suit.

Mr. Ichikawa's latest film will also be his posthumous work and the Tokyo International Film Festival will succeed his ardor and enthusiasm for the Japanese films.

The 21st edition of The Tokyo International Film Festival Office

On September 18 (Thu), the lineup of the 21st Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) was announced at a press conference at Roppongi Hills venue, one month prior to its commencement.

Hideyuki Takai, President, Japan Association for International Promotion of the Moving Image, was introduced as a person who is an authority of visual manufacturing industry and content business, bureaucracy, politics and business both domestic and worldwide. Tatsumi Yoda, the TIFF Chairman, spoke of his aspirations to make the Film Festival a place where many guests would participate and excellent films could be enjoyed. He also announced that this year, TIFF will take up the theme of "Ecology" and will feature a "Green Carpet" instead of the traditional red carpet. And also answering to the expectations for showing our initiatives in tackling the theme of "Ecology" and environmental issues, it will launch a new section "natural TIFF supported by TOYOTA" and the presentation of TOYOTA Earth Grand Prix as well as hosting of the symposiums and conferences.

Another new section, "Director's Angle" that features all-night screenings and talk shows by three highly praised Japanese directors: Shunji Iwai, Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Yojiro Takita were introduced at the conference with the directors present on stage.

The Lineup of the 21st TIFF was introduced focusing on the films selected for Competition section and Special Screenings of the main programs and depicted the image of the 21st edition of TIFF as the Asia's largest Film Festival of the world.

Special guests, Atsuro Watabe, a director and actor, Saki Takaoka, an actress, and Tetsu Maeda, who directed Shool Days with Pig, appeared on the stage.