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Tokyo International Film Festival 1st - 24th LINE UP

Competition

The Band's Visit

Director: Eran Kolirin
Cast: Sasson Gabai / Ronit Elkabetz

Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix - The Governor of Tokyo Award

Bloody Snake under the Sun

Director: Yu Nakai
Cast: SHOGEN / Mitsuki Koga / Aoi Miyazaki

Blue Eyelids

Director: Ernesto Contreras
Cast: Cecilia Suárez / Enrique Arreola

Dangerous Parking

Director: Peter Howitt
Cast: Peter Howitt / Saffron Burrows

Best Director Award (Peter Howitt)

THE EARLY YEARS - Erik Nietzsche Part I

Director: Jacob Thuesen
Cast: Jonatan Spang / Carl Martin Norén

Gandhi My Father

Director: Feroz Abbas Khan
Cast: Akshaye Khanna / Shefali Shah

Best Actress Award (Shefali Shah)

Hafez

Director: Abolfazl Jalili
Cast: Mehdi Moradi / Kumiko Aso

LEROY

Director: Armin Voelckers
Cast: Alain Morel / Anna Hausburg

Audience Award

Reign Over Me

Director: Mike Binder
Cast: Adam Sandler / Don Cheadle

The Stone Angel

Director: Kari Skogland
Cast: Ellen Burstyn / Christine Horne

Tricks

Director: Andrzej Jakimowski
Cast: Damian Ul / Ewelina Walendziak

Best Actor Award (Damian Ul)

Waiting for Someone

Director: Jérôme Bonnell
Cast: Emmanuelle Devos / Jean-Pierre Darroussin

The Waltz

Director: Salvatore Maira
Cast: Valeria Solarino / Maurizio Micheli

Best Artistic Contribution Award

The Western Trunk Line

Director: Li Jixian
Cast: Zhang Dengfeng / Li Jie

Special Jury Prize

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Opening Night

Crossing Over

Director: Jin Chen
Cast: Kiichi Nakai / Miao Pu / Guo Tao

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Opening Screening

MIDNIGHT EAGLE

Director: Izuru Narushima
Cast: Takao Osawa / Yuko Takeuchi / Hiroshi Tamaki

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Closing Screening

SILK

Director: François Girard
Cast: Michael Pitt / Keira Knightley

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Special Screenings

The Black House

Director: Sin Tae-ra
Cast: Hwang Jung-min / Kang Shin-il

Kung-fu Kid

Director: Issei Oda
Cast: Zhang Zhuang / Pinko Izumi

earth

Director: Alastair Fothergill & Mark Linfield
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

Fido

Director: Andrew Currie
Cast: Carrie-Anne Moss / Billy Connolly

The Darjeeling Limited

Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: Owen Wilson / Adrien Brody

Happily Ever After

Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Cast: Miki Nakatani / Hiroshi Abe / Toshiyuki Nishida

SURF'S UP (Japanese Dubbed Version)

Director: Ash Brannon & Chris Buck
Cast: Shun Oguri (Voice) / Yu Yamada (Voice) / Mike Maki (Voice)

ANGEL

Director: François Ozon
Cast: Romola Garai / Charlotte Rampling

Sky of Love

Director: Natsuki Imai
Cast: Yui Aragaki / Haruma Miura / Keisuke Koide

A Mighty Heart

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Cast: Angelina Jolie / Dan Futterman

Little DJ

Director: Koto Nagata
Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki / Mayuko Fukuda

Ray Harryhausen Special Feature:20 Million Miles to Earth/Earth vs. the Flying Saucers/It Came from Beneath the Sea

Director: Nathan Juran & Fred F. Sears & Robert Gord
Cast: Special Effects: Ray Harryhausen

CROWS - Episode 0

Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Shun Oguri / Kyosuke Yabe / Takayuki Yamada

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Director: Julian Schnabel
Cast: Mathieu Amalric / Emmanuelle Seigner

The Invitation from Cinema Orion

Director: Kenki Saegusa
Cast: Rie Miyazawa / Ryo Kase

THE SIMPSONS MOVIE

Director: David Silverman
Cast: Dan Castellaneta (Voice) / Julie Kavner (Voice) / Nancy Cartwright (Voice)

The Namesake

Director: Mira Nair
Cast: Kal Penn / Tabu / Irrfan Khan

Best Wishes for Tomorrow

Director: Takashi Koizumi
Cast: Makoto Fujita / Sumiko Fuji / Robert Lesser

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WINDS OF ASIA-MIDDLE EAST

Breath

Director: Kim Ki-duk
Cast: Chang Chen / Zia

For Eternal Hearts

Director: Hwang Qu-dok
Cast: Choung Kyung-ho / Kim Min-sun

Getting Home

Director: Zhang Yang
Cast: Zhao Benshan / Hong Qiwen

The Case

Director: Wang Fen
Cast: Wu Gang / Wu Yujuan

Cherries

Director: Zhang Jiabei
Cast: Miao Pu / Tuo Guoquan

Mad Detective

Director: Johnnie To & Wai Ka-Fai
Cast: Lau Ching-wan / Andy On

EXODUS

Director: Pang Ho-cheung
Cast: Simon Yam / Annie Lim

The Most Distant Course

Director: Lin Jing-jie
Cast: Kwai Lun-mei / Mo Zi-yi

The Wall-Passer

Director: Hung Hung
Cast: Chang Yung-cheng / Lee Chia-ying

Khao Chon Kai

Director: Withit Kamsrakaew
Cast: Sorapong Chatree / Wasit Phongsopa

Dancing Bells

Director: Deepak Kumaran Menon
Cast: Dhaarshini Sankran / Ramesh Kumar

Special Mention

Singapore Dreaming

Director: Yen Yen Woo & Colin Goh
Cast: Richard Low / Alice Lim Cheng Peng

Best Asian-Middle Eastern Film Award

Special Ingredients

Director: Paolo Herras
Cast: Meryll Soriano / Boots Anson-roa

Dor

Director: Nagesh Kukunoor
Cast: Shreyas Talpade / Ayesha Takia

LUCKY MILES

Director: Michael James Rowland
Cast: Kenneth Moraleda / Rodney Afif

Steppe Express

Director: Amanzhol Aituarov
Cast: Tulegen Kuanichev / Aizhan Aitenova

The Wedding Chest

Director: Nurbek Egen
Cast: Natacha Regnier / Bolot Tentimyshov

A Few Days Later…

Director: Niki Karimi
Cast: Niki Karimi / Ehsan Amani

Times and Winds

Director: Reha Erdem
Cast: Özkan Özen / Ali Bey Kayali

Crossing the Dust

Director: Shawkat Amin Korki
Cast: Adil Abdolrahman / Hossein Hasan

FALAFEL

Director: Michel Kammoun
Cast: Elie Mitri / Issam Boukhaled

Cut and Paste

Director: Hala Khalil
Cast: Hanan Turk / Shirif Mouneer

Goryeojang

Director: Kim Ki-young
Cast: Kim Jin-kyu / Joo Jeung-nyeo

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WINDS OF ASIA-MIDDLE EAST (SCREENING OF REFERENCE)

The Gravel Road

Director: Deepak Kumaran Menon
Cast: Saratha / Saran

The Best of Times

Director: Hala Khalil
Cast: Hanan Turk / Hend Sabri

Two or Three Things I Know about KIM Ki-young

Director: Kim Hong-joon
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

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WINDS OF ASIA-MIDDLE EAST In Memory of Edward Yang: Retrospective

In Our Time

Director: Edward Yang & Tao Te-chen & Ko I-chen & Chang Yi
Cast: Sylvia Chang / Lee Lichun

That Day, on the Beach

Director: Edward Yang
Cast: Sylvia Chang / Terry Hu

Taipei Story

Director: Edward Yang
Cast: Hou Hsiao-Hsien / Ko Su-yun

Terrorizers

Director: Edward Yang
Cast: Cora Miao / Lee Lichun

A One and a Two

Director: Edward Yang
Cast: Wu Nien-jen / Elaine Jin / Issey Ogata

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Japanese Eyes

United Red Army

Director: Koji Wakamatsu
Cast: Maki Sakai / ARATA / Go Jibiki

Best Picture Award

The Rebirth

Director: Masahiro Kobayashi
Cast: Masahiro Kobayashi / Makiko Watanabe

ARIA

Director: Takushi Tsubokawa
Cast: Masayuki Shionoya / Mariko Takahashi / Shojiro Kataoka

Tears of Kitty

Director: Toshiyuki Morioka
Cast: Shinji Takeda / Nanami Fujimoto / Ryoko Hirosue

Special Award

Eat and Run -6 Beautiful Grifters-

Director: Mamoru Oshii & Makoto Kamiya & Kenji Kamiyama & Takanori Tsujimoto & Hiroaki Yuasa
Cast: Yuriko Hishimi / Hinako Saeki / Yuko Ogura

Negative Happy Chain Saw Edge

Director: Takuji Kitamura
Cast: Hayato Ichihara / Megumi Seki / Haruma Miura

Beauty

Director: Toshio Goto
Cast: Takataro Kataoka / Ainosuke Kataoka / Kumiko Aso

PEEPING TOM

Director: Yoshihiro Fukagawa
Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima / Urara Awata / Ayumi Kinoshita

It's A New Day

Director: Toshiyuki Umezawa
Cast: Noriko Aoyama / Masato Tokitsu / Yoshiharu Takeda

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World Cinema

Armin

Director: Ognjen Svilicic
Cast: Armin Omerovic-muhedin / Emir Hadzihafizbegovic

California Dreamin'(endless)

Director: Cristian Nemescu
Cast: Armand Assante / Razvan Vasilescu

Eagle vs Shark

Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Loren Horsley / Jemaine Clement

INTERVIEW

Director: Steve Buscemi
Cast: Sienna Miller / Steve Buscemi

I Trust You to Kill Me

Director: Manu Boyer
Cast: Kiefer Sutherland / Rocco DeLuca

My Brother is an Only Child

Director: Daniele Luchetti
Cast: Elio Germano / Riccardo Scamarcio

THAT DAY

Director: Jacob Berger
Cast: Bruno Todeschini / Natacha R?gnier

WAR/DANCE

Director: Sean Fine & Andrea Nix Fine
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

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Tokyo in Focus:How Tokyo has been depicted in post WWII cinema

TOKYO GONIN OTOKO

Director: Torajiro Saito
Cast: Roppa Furukawa / Entatsu Yokoyama

SENSO TO HEIWA

Director: Satsuo Yamamoto & Fumio Kamei
Cast: Ryo Ikebe / Hatae Kishi

Vision of Tokyo in Twenty Years

Director: Ken Akimoto
Cast:

The Record of a Tenement Gentleman

Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Cast: Chouko Iida / Hohi Aoki

Stray Dog

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Toshiro Mifune / Takashi Shimura

One Wonderful Sunday

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Isao Numazaki / Chieko Nakakita

Downtown

Director: Yasuki Chiba
Cast: Isuzu Yamada / Toshiro Mifune

Tokyo Twilight

Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Cast: Chishu Ryu / Ineko Arima

Brother and Sister

Director: Mikio Naruse
Cast: Machiko Kyo / Masayuki Mori

Brother and Sister

Director: Tadashi Imai
Cast: Masao Kusakari / Kumiko Akiyoshi

Something Like Yoshiwara

Director: Yoshimitsu Morita
Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi / Katsunobu Ito

MEMORIES OF YOU

Director: Jun Ichikawa
Cast: Hajime Hana / Yumi Nishiyama

Where Chimneys Are Seen

Director: Heinosuke Gosho
Cast: Ken Uehara / Kinuyo Tanaka

The Nineteen Year-Old's Map

Director: Mitsuo Yanagimachi
Cast: Yuji Honma / Keizo Kanie

Gendai Jin

Director: Minoru Shibuya
Cast: Ryo Ikebe / Isuzu Yamada

KIKEN NA EIYU

Director: Hideo Suzuki
Cast: Shintaro Ishihara / Yoko Tsukasa

The Metropolitan Police:The Woman without a Face

Director: Shinji Murayama
Cast: Hiroshi Minami / Yuji Hori

Tokyo wan

Director: Yoshitaro Nomura
Cast: Jiro Ishizaki / Hiromi Sakaki

Sexy Line

Director: Teruo Ishii
Cast: Teruo Yoshida / Yoko Mihara

THE BLACK BATTLE FRONT KIDNAPPERS

Director: Eizo Sugawa
Cast: Hiroshi Fujioka / Junzaburo Ban

The Petrified Forest

Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara / Haruko Sugimura

PATLABOR THE MOVIE

Director: Mamoru Oshii
Cast: Mina Tominaga (Voice) / Toshio Furukawa (Voice)

Night Butterflies

Director: Kozaburo Yoshimura
Cast: Machiko Kyo / Fujiko Yamamoto

Jiyugaoka Hujin

Director: Kozo Saeki
Cast: Ryo Ikebe / Michiyo Aratama

Under What Star?

Director: Shiro Toyoda
Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto / Ryo Ikebe

KANDAGAWA

Director: Masanobu Deme
Cast: Masao Kusakari / Keiko Sekine

A Night in Nude

Director: Takashi Ishii
Cast: Naoto Takenaka / Kimiko Yo

DIARY OF A SHINJUKU THIEF

Director: Nagisa Oshima
Cast: Tadanori Yokoo / Rie Yokoyama

THROW AWAY THE BOOKS, LET'S GO INTO THE STREETS

Director: Shuji Terayama
Cast: Hideaki Sasaki / Masaharu Saito

Underground Plaza

Director: Keiya Ouchida
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

Carnival in the Night

Director: Masashi Yamamoto
Cast: Kumiko Ohta / Nobutaka Kuwabara

Discovering Japan: Tokyo (by Noriaki Tsuchimoto)

Director: Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

Discovering Japan: Tokyo (by Yoichi Kagami)

Director: Yoichi Kagami
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

Tokyo 1958

Director: Hiroshi Teshigawara & Susumu Hani & Zenzo Matsushima & Kyushiro Kusakabe & Masahiro Ogi & Yoshiro Kawazu & Sadamu Maruo & Kanzaburo Mushanokoji & Ryuichiro Sakisaka
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

On the Road : The Document

Director: Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

ENLIGHTNMENT GUARANTEED

Director: Doris Dorrie
Cast: Uwe Ochsenknecht / Gustav-Peter Wohler

Sans Soleil

Director: Chris Marker
Cast: Narration in Japanized Version Riyoko Ikeda

Fear and Trembling

Director: Alain Corneau
Cast: Sylvie Testud / Kaori Tsuji

Tokyo-Ga

Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Chishu Ryu / Yuharu Atsuta

Akazukinchan Kiotsukete

Director: Shiro Moritani
Cast: Yusuke Okada / Kazuyo Mori

ALL QUIET ON THE EMPOYMENT FRONT

Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Cast: Yuji Oda / Nobuko Sendo

Love & Pop

Director: Hideaki Anno
Cast: Asumi Miwa / Kirari

Dreany Fifteen

Director: Shiji Somai
Cast: Shingo Tsurumi / Hiroko Yakushimaru

The Killing Game

Director: Toru Murakawa
Cast: Yusaku Matsuda / Yutaka Nakajima

TOKYO EYES

Director: Jean Pierre Limosin
Cast: Shinji Takeda / Hinano Yoshikawa

RETRIBUTION

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast: Koji Yakusho / Manami Konishi

The Girl Abandoned

Director: Kiriro Urayama
Cast: Choichiro Kawarazaki / Ruriko Asaoka

Angel Guts : Red Classroom

Director: Chusei Sone
Cast: Yuki Mizuhara / Keizo Kanie

Tamanoi, Street of Joy

Director: Tatsumi Kumashiro
Cast: Junko Miyashita / Keizo Kanie

Night of the Cats

Director: Noboru Tanaka
Cast: Tomoko Katsura / Hidemi Hara

ALWAYS -Sunset on Third Street- 2

Director: Takashi Yamazaki
Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka / Shinichi Tsutsumi / Koyuki

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animecs TIFF 2007 (Koji Yamamura Special)

Franz Kafka's A COUNTRY DOCTOR

Director: Koji Yamamura
Cast: Sensaku Shigeyama (Voice) / Shime Shigeyama (Voice) / Hitomi Kanehara (Voice)

Mt. HEAD (Atama Yama)

Director: Koji Yamamura
Cast: 《An Animation Film》

The Old Crocodile

Director: Koji Yamamura
Cast: 《An Animation Film》

Child's Metaphysics

Director: Koji Yamamura
Cast: 《An Animation Film》

Man&Whale

Director: Koji Yamamura
Cast: 《An Animation Film》

Tokyo Marble Chocolate

Director: Naoyoshi Shiotani
Cast: Takahiro Sakurai (Voice) / Nana Mizuki (Voice) / Mitsuo Iwata (Voice)

Ghost Hound

Director: Ryoutaro Nakamura
Cast: Kensho Ono (Voice) / Soichiro Hoshi (Voice) / Jun Fukuyama (Voice)

A KITE INTERNATIONAL VERSION

Director: Yasuomi Umetsu
Cast: 《An Animation Film》

KITE LIBERATOR

Director: Yasuomi Umetsu
Cast: Marina Inoue (Voice) / Rikiya Koyama (Voice) / Mugihito (Voice)

Moyashimon

Director: Yuichiro Yano
Cast: Daisuke Sakaguchi (Voice) / Mitsuki Saiga (Voice) / Sayaka Ohara (Voice)

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Cinema Vibration

ONCE

Director: John Carney
Cast: Glen Hansard / Marketa Irglova

Takada Wataru Zero

Director: Koji Shiraishi
Cast: Wataru Takada / Shigeru Izumiya / Akira Emoto

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SEI-YU KO-EN Live with Yosuke Yamashita

SHERLOCK JR

Director: Buster Keaton
Cast: Michio Hazama (SEI-YU) / Keiko Toda (SEI-YU) / Yamashita Yosuke's New Quartet (Music)

A DOG'S LIFE

Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Koichi Yamadera (SEI-YU)

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Nipponn Cinema Classics

A Diary of Chuji’s Travels

Director: Daisuke Ito
Cast: Denjiro Okochi / Hideo Nakamura

Carmen Comes Home

Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Cast: Hideko Takamine / Shuji Sano / Toshiko Kobayashi

Jongara - Song of Tsugaru

Director: Koichi Saito
Cast: Kyoko Enami / Akira Oda / Mihoko Nakagawa

The Young

Director: Shiro Toyota
Cast: Den Obinata / Haruyo Ichikawa / Shizue Natsukawa

A Story from Echigo

Director: Tadashi Imai
Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma / Shoichi Ozawa / Rentaro Mikuni

Time within Memory

Director: Toichiro Narushima
Cast: Takahiro Tamura / Atsuko Kaku / Hisano Yamaoka

Warming Up

Director: Kazuo Kuroki
Cast: Jun Eto / Keiko Takeshita / Yoshio Harada

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