The Cherry Orchard - Blossoming (Special Screenings Section) is a film that takes place at a prestigious girl’s school and depicts the story of adolescence about the 5 high school girls. The film is a remake of a hit from 1991 which Shun Nakahara himself directed.

The Talk Show was performed on Oct. 21 (Tue) at TIFF park (Roppongi Hills Arena) Saki Fukuda (actress), Saki Terashima (actress), Anne (actress), Yuko Oshima (actress) Haneyuri (actress) Emi Takei (actress) and Tomo Yanagishita (actor) appeared on the stage which was decorated with pink color to give an impression of the cherry blossom. The Japanese stand-up comic Hiking Walking in female high school uniforms appeared on the stage and made the cast feel cheerful with their humor!!

The Cherry Orchard - Blossoming




The Yes & No Questionnaire Session with the starlets titled “Teenage Consciousness Survey” began on the stage.

Numerous in-depth issues such as “Have you ever been declared love from the person of same sex.” , “Can you forgive unfaithful flirting?”, “Do you want to be loved by a person rather than love the person?” were brought up. When the actress and Green Ambassador of 21st TIFF was asked with the question, “Do you have a dream or ambition?”, she answered, “I want to hike to Kyoto like in the Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido!! And then I’m going to write a book!” Saki Fukuda (actress) said, “I don’t have such a big dream but I would like to make each one of the film titles that I perform in to be a quality films.” Here comment was quite impressive.

The stand-up comics boosted the jolly mood on the stage and the Talk Show came to the end. The starlets moved to the Screen 7 for the next Greetings from the stage.

The Cherry Orchard - Blossoming is warm and tender film that makes you really look forward to the coming of the spring season. The film is scheduled for release on Nov. 8, 2008.

Kim Ki-young Retrospective was received enthusiastically by the audiences who screamed in joy for being able to see the film. The final show will be The Housemaid (Cannes 2008 remix-digital) scheduled for screening on Oct. 25 (Sat). The Japanese Film Industry's foremost Kim Ki-young freak, Makoto Shinozaki (dir.) Not Forgotten will make a stage appearance following the show! The exciting Talk Show will be performed with Kenji Ishizaka, the Winds of Asia-Middle East Programming Director.

Kim Ki-young's eldest son, Kim Dong-won will be greeting on the stage before the screening. Don't miss it!

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Date：Oct. 25（Sat）20：40 screening begins（20：20 screening ends）
Venue：TOHO Cinemas Roppongihills Screen 6

■ Greetings from the stage & Teach-ins & Comments.
・ Jiro Showno (dir.) and Yasuko Matsuyuki of Time Lost, Time
Found, Greetings from the stage & comments.
・ KILL, Greetings from the stage & comments.
Kenta Fukasaku (dir.), Takanori Tsujimoto (dir.), Minoru
Tahara (dir.), Yoko Fujita (actress), Ayaka Morita (actress),
Yuma Ishigaki (actor), Takuya Mizoguchi (actor) and Vanilla
Yamazaki made their appearances on stage.
・ Rentaro Mikuni made his appearance in Doctor's Day Off,
Talk Show.

■ International Competition Juries Official Press Conference
■ Special Night Ayaka Hirahara sings JUPITER enthusiastically!

THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL (Special Screenings Section) was screened on Oct. 19. The director, Justin Chadwick made his appearance on the stage and expressed his joy for being able to meet the director, Fernando Meirelles whom he respects and to be able to participate in the film festival. Amongst many episodes, he spoke about the beautiful leading actress in the film as well as the fact that many of the details portrayed in the film are truth. For details please refer to the video!



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The stage greeting for the first Japanese Punk Rock Movie of this century, The Shonen Merikensack, took place on Oct. 19 at the TOHO Cinemas Roppongi Hills.

Punk-like comments were given one after another from the stars. The cast all mentioned that the director, Kankuro Kudo was a genius filmmaker! Wonder what it was like at the production site.



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Numerous events are simultaneously in progress at the TIFF Roppongi venue along with the screening held at the TOHO Cinemas. You can appreciate the bel-esprit like atmosphere of Tokyo International Film Festival by casually stopping over Roppongi Hills.

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　The TIFF Movie CAFÉ is a café that the public visitors can casually use. The directors and cast of the Competition Section film titles appear before the guests to talk about their thoughts on films and production notes at the TIFF Competition Café Interview every day. It is an effort to stage press conference open to public in the café.



The first interview was held on Oct. 19 (Sun) with the guest, Félicité Wouassi, the starring actress of the film, With a Little Help From Myself, directed by Fran?ois Dupeyron. She wore a fashionable black dress which matched her vibrant pink ankle boots, her hair style was vogue skin head! Félicité received strong applause when the screening and the Teach-in of With a Little Help From Myself was held She was also welcomed with a warm applause at the TIFF Movie CAFÉ as well.



　The film takes place in the outskirts of Paris. The heroine is Sonia, a mother of the African immigrant family, who gets caught in the outrageous trouble on her daughters wedding day. The film title exposes the real aspects of France. Félicité says that the unique humor in the film is “Very much like the Italian films of the 70s which director and I both like…very much like the laughing the misery away. “We created Sonia’s character with staff and the director,” says Félicité. “I’ve become Sonia for the 6 months and I shaved my hair to break away from Sonia’s character on the last day of the shooting. She stroked her head humoring herself and said, “It feels good to stroke a shaved head”.








With a Little Help From Myself

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Following the screening of “Route134Story Feathers of a Chamomile”, scheduled for screening at TOHO Cinemas Roppongi Hills, Screen 6 on Oct. 23, from 16:50; Micro, the director of the film will perform a special mini live. The audiences of the screening can enter the arena by showing the ticket stub of the film.

Micro will perform the theme song of “Route134Story Feathers of a Chamomile” Aoi Ito (literally meaning Blue Thread) for first time before the fans.



“Route134Story Feathers of a Chamomile”

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The gorgeous celebrities made their appearances for Greetings from the stage and Teach-ins on Oct. 19. , 2nd day of 21st TIFF. Enjoy the flamboyant photo gallery only possible at 21st TIFF.

Echo of Silence (Competition)

The director, Atsuro Watabe, talks about his film.

The star of the film, Saki Takaoka.

They pose before the sensuous poster of Echo of Silence.
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THE BLUE BIRD (Japanese Eyes)

The leading actor, Hiroshi Abe greets the crowd.

Kenji Nakanishi (dir.) and Hiroshi Abe (actor)
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The Shonen Merikensack (Special Screenings)

Director Kankuro Kudo poses beside posh Pop poster of the Shonen Merikensack,
The leading actress, Aoi Miyazaki shows her smile.

The team of The Shonen Merikensack are Ryo Katsuji, Yuichi Kimura, Aoi Miyazaki, Tomorrow Taguchi & director, Kankuro Kudo. (From left)
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TULPAN (Competition)

Askhat Kuchinchirekov (actor) & Samal Yeslyamova (actress) &
Sergey Dvortsevoy (dir.) of the TULPAN.
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THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL (Special Screenings)

Justin Chadwick poses before the poster with Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson.
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The Vision Creator: The Universe of Shoji Kawamori.(animecs TIFF)

Shoji Kawamori poses before the 21swt TIFF official poster.
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KILL (Japanese Eyes)

Yuma Ishigaki (actor) makes his greeting speec

Vanilla Yamazaki (music & dramatic narration), Kenta Fukasaku (dir.), Takanori Tsujimoto (dir. & script), Ayaka Morita (actress), Yuma Ishigaki (actor), Minoru Tahara (dir. & script) are the team of KILL.

Kenta Fukasaku (dir.), Minoru Tahara (dir.) and Tsujimoto Takanori (dir. & script) poses by the visually astounding poster of KILL at the Teach-in.
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The Clone Returns to the Homeland (Japanese Eyes)

Mitsuhiro Oikawa (leading actor)

Kanji Nakajima (dir.), Mitsuhiro Oikawa and Kyusaku Shimada (actors) are the tema of The Clone Returns to the Homeland.
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8 film titles from the Winds of Asia - Middle East Section were screened on Oct. 19 (Sun).

Mozart Town (Korea)
Trivial Matters (Hong Kong)
The Way We Are (Hong Kong)
My Magic (Singapore)
Chakde! India (India)

Enjoy the photos from the above five film titles.

『Mozart Town』





『Trivial Matters』







『The Way We Are』




Portrait cut of Charlie Lam.

『My Magic』









『Chakde! India』

Guest greetings from the stage, Press Conferences and Interviews…
The compilation digest of the day at the 21st TIFF by cyberTIFF STATION.


The contents of Oct. 20

Greetings from the stage and Teach-ins

・Stage greetings by ATsuro Watabe (dir.) & Saki Takaoka
(actress) from Echo of Silence (Competition Section).
・Stage greetings by Kankuro Kudo (dir.), Aoi Miyazaki (actress)
& Koichi Sata (actor) from The Shonen Merikensack (Special Screenings Section).
・Stage greeting by Hiroshi Abe (actor) from THE BLUE BIRD
(Japanese Eyes Section).
・Stage greeting by Justin Chadwick (dir.) by THE OTHER
BOLEYN GIRL (Special Screenings Section).
・The Green Carpet Area
・TIFF Movie Cafe