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Tokyo International Film Festival 1st - 24th LINE UP

Competition

4 Nights with Anna

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast: Artur Steranko / Kinga Preis

Special Jury Prize

Claustrophobia

Director: Ivy Ho
Cast: Karena Lam / Ekin Cheng / Andy Hui

Echo of Silence

Director: Atsuro Watabe
Cast: Saki Takaoka / Atsuro Watabe / Leona Hirota

Half-Life

Director: Jennifer Phang
Cast: Sanoe Lake / Alexander Agate / Julia Nickson / Leonardo Nam

Hamoon and Darya

Director: Ebrahim Forouzesh
Cast: Mehran Gol-Mohammad-zadeh / Mahboubeh Shakeri / Mila Hatami

MID-AUGUST LUNCH

Director: Gianni Di Gregorio
Cast: Gianni Di Gregorio / Valeria De Franciscis / Marina Cacciotti

Ocean

Director: Mikhail Kosyrev-Nesterov
Cast: Jorge Luis Castro / Monse Duany González / Alina Rodríguez Ruiz

PLANET CARLOS

Director: Andreas Kannengießer
Cast: Mario José Chavez Chavez / Cristel Sofia Sanchez Hernandez / Katherine Mercedes Molina Zelaya

PUBLIC ENEMY No.1(Part1&2)

Director: Jean-François Richet
Cast: Vincent Cassel / Cécile de France / Ludvine Sagnier

Best Actor Award (Vincent Cassel)

School Days with a Pig

Director: Tetsu Maeda
Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki / Mieko Harada / Ren Osugi

Audience Award / TOYOTA Earth Grand Prix Jury Award

Sing for Darfur

Director: Johan Kramer
Cast: Pere Molina / Melina Matthews / Vicky Peña

Super Typhoon

Director: Feng Xiaoning
Cast: Wu Gang / Song Xiaoying / Liu Xiaowei

TULPAN

Director: Sergey Dvortsevoy
Cast: Askhat Kuchinchirekov / Samal Yeslyamova / Ondasyn Besikbasov

Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix - The Governor of Tokyo Award / Best Director Award (Sergey Dvortsevoy)

Under the Tree

Director: Garin Nugroho
Cast: Marcella Zalianty / Nadia Saphira / Ayu Laksmi

With a Little Help from Myself

Director: François Dupeyron
Cast: Félicité Wouassi / Claude Rich / Elisabeth Oppong

Best Actress Award (Félicité Wouassi) / Best Artistic Contribution Award

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Special Screenings

REDCLIFF Part I

Director: John Woo
Cast: Tony Leung / Takeshi Kaneshiro / Zhang Fengyi

The Shonen Merikensack

Director: Kankuro Kudo
Cast: Aoi Miyazaki / Koichi Sato

THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL

Director: Justin Chadwick
Cast: Natalie Portman / Scarlett Johansson / Eric Bana

BLINDNESS

Director: Fernando Meirelles
Cast: Julianne Moore / Mark Ruffalo / Alice Braga

Penguins in the Sky-Asahiyama Zoo

Director: Masahiko Makino
Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida / Yasuhi Nakamura / Ai Maeda

D-WAR

Director: Shim Hyung-rae
Cast: Jason Behr / Amanda Brooks / Robert Forster

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Director: Eric Brevig
Cast: Brendan Fraser / Josh Hutcherson / Anita Briem

The Cherry Orchard - Blossoming

Director: Shun Nakahara
Cast: Saki Fukuda / Saki Terashima / Anne

1408

Director: Mikael Håfström
Cast: John Cusack / Samuel L. Jackson / Mary McCormack

LOVE FIGHT

Director: Izuru Narushima
Cast: Kento Hayashi / Kie Kitano / Takao Osawa

STRANDED I've come from a plane that crashed in the mountains

Director: Gonzalo Arijon
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

The Homeless Student

Director: Tomoyuki Furumaya
Cast: Teppei Koike / Akihiro Nishino / Chizuru Ikewaki

Elegy

Director: ISABEL COIXET
Cast: Pénelope Cruz / Ben Kingsley / Dennis Hopper

Assembly

Director: Feng Xiaogang
Cast: Zhang Hanyu / Deng Chao / Yuen Wenkang

Mr. Tadano's Secret Mission - From Japan with Love

Director: Hisashi Ueda
Cast: Katsunori Takahashi / Atsuko Sakurai / Masaru Nagai

In the Shadow of the Moon

Director: David Sington
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

Filth and Wisdom

Director: MADONNA
Cast: Eugene Hutz / Holly Weston / Vicky Mclure

Diary of the Dead

Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Michelle Morgan / Josh Close / Shawn Roberts

WALL・E

Director: Andrew Stanton
Cast: Ben Burtt / Elissa Knight / Jeff Garlin

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Winds of Asia

Crossing

Director: Kim Tae-kyun
Cast: Cha In-pyo / Shin Myoeng-cheol

Milky Way Liberation Front

Director: Yoon Seong-ho
Cast: Im Ji-gyu / Seo Young-ju / Park Hyuk-kwon

Mozart Town

Director: Jeon Kyu-hwan
Cast: Oh Seong-tae / Joo Yoo-rang / Blaise Gbato

The Sun Also Rises

Director: Jiang Wen
Cast: Jiang Wen / Joan Chen / Zhou Yun

Special Mention

A TALE OF TWO DONKEYS

Director: Li Dawei
Cast: Wen Zhang / Yue Hong

Trivial Matters

Director: Pang Ho-cheung
Cast: Kristal Tin / Eason Chan / Stephy Tang

A Decade of Love

Director: Chan Wing Chiu / Chang Wai Hung / Lam Oi Wah Aubrey / Lee Kung Lok / Lam Wah Chun / Mak Chi Sin / Wong Ching Po / Yeung Yat Tak Takkie / Yuen Kin Toe / Azrael Chung
Cast: Glen Chin / Ho Wah Chiu / Mandy Chiang

The Way We Are

Director: Ann Hui
Cast: Leung Chun Lung / Paw Hee Ching / Chan Lai Wun

Special Mention

The Postmodern Life of My Aunt

Director: Ann Hui
Cast: Siqin Gaowa / Chow Yun-fat / Zhao Wei

Winds of September

Director: Tom Shu-Yu Lin
Cast: Rhydian Vaughan / Chang Chieh / Wang Bo-chieh

Beautiful Crazy

Director: Lee Chi Yuarn
Cast: Angel Yao / Amiya Lee / Liao Chien-hui

The Convert

Director: Yasmin Ahmad
Cast: Brian Yap / Tony Savarimuthu / Sharifah Amani Syed Zainal Rashid

Special Mention

Flower in the Pocket

Director: Liew Seng Tat
Cast: Wong Zi Jiang / Lim Ming Wei / Amira Nasuha Binti Shahiran

My Magic

Director: Eric Khoo
Cast: Bosco Francis / Jathishweran

Wonderful Town

Director: Aditya Assarat
Cast: Anchalee Saisoontorn / Supphasit Kansen / Dul Yaambunying

Blink

Director: Ronaldo M. Bertubin
Cast: Serwin Ordoñez / Jojit Lorenzo / Ashley Rein Arca

Chakde! India

Director: Shimit Amin
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan / Sagrika Ghatge / Shilpa Shukla

The Wall

Director: Mohammad Ali / Talebi
Cast: Golshifteh Farahani / Mehrdad Sedighian / Azita Hajian

Summer Book

Director: Seyfi Teoman
Cast: Taner Birsel / Tayfun Günay / Harun Özüağ

My Marlon and Brando

Director: Huseyin Karabey
Cast: Ayça Damgaci / Hama Ali Khan

Best Asian-Middle Eastern Film Award

Caramel

Director: Nadine Labaki
Cast: Nadine Labaki / Yasmine Al Masri / Joanna Moukarzel

Cairo Station

Director: Youssef Chahine
Cast: Youssef Chahine / Hind Rostom

The State of the World

Director: Chantal Akerman / Wang Bing / Pedro Costa / Vicente Ferraz / Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Ayisha Abraham
Cast: 《An Omunibus Film》

Curfew

Director: Rashid Masharawi
Cast: Salim Daw / Na’ila Zayaad / Younis Younis

Haifa

Director: Rashid Masharawi
Cast: Mohammad Bakri / Ahmad Abu Sal'Oum / Hiyam Abbass

Ticket to Jerusalem

Director: M. Rashid Masharawi
Cast: Ghassan Abbas / Areen Omary / George Ibrahim

Waiting

Director: M. Rashid Masharawi
Cast: Al Massad / Areen Omari / Youssef Baroud

Laila’s Birthday

Director: M. Rashid Masharawi
Cast: Mohammed Bakri / Areen Omari / Nour Zoubi

The Housemaid

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

The Insect Woman

Director: Kim Ki-young
Cast: Yoon Yeo-jeong / Namgung Won / Jeon Kye-hyeon

Woman of Water

Director: Kim Ki-young
Cast: Kim Ja-ok / Kim Jeong-cheol / Lee Hwa-si

The Woman of Fire '82

Director: Kim Ki-young
Cast: Kim Ji-mee / Na Young-hee

Free Woman

Director: Kim Ki-young
Cast: Ahn So-young / Shin Seong-il / Kim Won-seop

Yangsan Province

Director: Kim Ki-young
Cast: Kim Sam-hwa / Cho Yong-soo / Kim Seung-ho

Goryeojang

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

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Japanese Eyes

THE CODE

Director: Kaizo Hayashi
Cast: Kikunosuke Onoe / Izumi Inamori

buy a suit

Director: Jun Ichikawa
Cast: Yukiko Sunahara / Sabakichi / Takaaki Yamazaki

Best Picture Award

THE BLUE BIRD

Director: Kenji Nakanishi
Cast: Hiroshi Abe / Kanata Hongo / Ayumi Ito

Osaka Hamlet

Director: Fujiro Mitsuishi
Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka / Ittoku Kishibe / Naoyuki Morita

Special Award (Ittoku Kishibe)

KILL

Director: Mamoru Oshii / Kenta Fukasaku / Takanori Tsujimoto / Minoru Tahara
Cast: Yoko Fujita / Rinko Kikuchi / Takuya Mizoguchi

The Clone Returns to the Homeland

Director: Kanji Nakajima
Cast: Mitsuhiro Oikawa / Eri Ishida / Hiromi Nagasaku

Departure: From Ashoro

Director: kazuhisa Imai
Cast: Shunsuke Daito / Masato Hagiwara / Shigeru Izumiya

My Grandma

Director: Hideo Sakaki
Cast: Kin Sugai / Kenichi Okamoto / Toshiro Yanagiba

Time Lost, Time Found

Director: Jiro Showno
Cast: Yasuko Matsuyuki / Kippei Shiina / Kento Hayashi

Scenery to Remember

Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi
Cast: Kiyotaka Nambara / Hiromi Nagasaku / Toshio Kakei

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World Cinema

Go With Peace Jamil

Director: Omar Shargawi
Cast: Dar Salim / Salah el Koussa / Munir Shargawi

GOMORRAH

Director: Matteo Garrone
Cast: Gianfelice Imparato / Maria Nazionale / Toni Servillo

Happy-Go-Lucky

Director: Mike Leigh
Cast: Sally Hawkins / Elliot Cowan / Alexis Zegerman

HOME

Director: Ursula Meier
Cast: Isabelle Huppert / Olivier Gourmet / Adélaïde Leroux

Hunger

Director: Steve McQueen
Cast: Michael Fassbender / Liam Cunningham / Brian Milligan

In the City of Sylvia

Director: José Luis Guerín
Cast: Xavier Lafitte / Pilar Ló_pez de Ayala / Tanja Czichy

Lake Tahoe

Director: Fernando Eimbcke
Cast: Diego Cataño / Héctor Hérrera / Daniela Valentine

Parque via

Director: Enrique Rivero
Cast: Nolberto Coria / Nancy Orozco / Tesalia Huerta

The Secret of the Grain

Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Cast: Habib Boufares / Hafsia Herzi / Faridah Benkhetache

Three Monkeys

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cast: Yavuz Bingöl / Hatice Aslan / Ahmet Rıfat Sungar

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natural TIFF supported by TOYOTA

Ashes from the Sky

Director: Jose Antonio Quirós
Cast: Celso Bugallo / Gary Piquer / Clara Segura

TOYOTA Earth Grand Prix

BIUTIFUL CAUNTRI

Director: Esmeralda Calabria / Andrea D'Ambrosio / Peppe Ruggiero
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

Blue Symphony

Director: Takahiro Mitsuyoshi
Cast: Maomi Yuuki (Narrator) / Jacques Mayol

Encounters at the End of the World

Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

THE MEERKATS

Director: James Honeyborne
Cast: Meerkat / Narrator : Paul Newman

TOYOTA Earth Grand Prix Special Award

Saving Luna

Director: Suzanne Chisholm / Michael Parfit
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

Silent Color Silent Voice

Director: Ayako Mogi
Cast: Akiko Ishigaki / Kinsei Ishigaki / People of Sonai Village in Iriomote

Stories on Human Rights

Director: Sergei Bodrov / Bram Shouw / Jia Zhang Ke / Saman Salour / Armagan Ballantyne / Marina Abramovic / Daniela Thomas / Walter Salles / Francesco Jodice / Idrissa Ouedraogo / Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Murali Nair
Cast: 《An Omunibus Film》

THE THIRD WAVE

Director: Alison Thompson
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

WIND MAN

Director: Khuat Akhmetov
Cast: Igor Yasulovich / Kuandyk Kystykbaev / Ayanat Esmagambetova

ASAYAKE NO UTA

Director: Kei Kumai
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai / Keiko Sekine / Kinya Kitaoji

DERSU UZALA

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Yuri Solomin / Maxim Munzuk / Schemeikl Chokmorov

earth

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

Fire Festival

Director: Mitsuo Yanagimachi
Cast: Kinya Kitaoji / Kiwako Taichi / Norihei Miki

THE FOX

Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

GODZILLA VS HEDORAH

Director: Yoshimitsu Banno
Cast: Akira Yamauchi / Toshie Kimura / Toshio Shibamoto

Home from the Sea

Director: Yoji Yamada
Cast: Chieko Baisho / Hisashi Igawa / Kiyoshi Atsumi

Home Village

Director: Seijiro Kohyama
Cast: Yoshi Kato / Hiroyuki Nagato / Fumie Kashiyama

HORSE

Director: Kajiro Yamamoto
Cast: Hideko Takamine / Keita Fujiwara / Chieko Takehisa

An Inconvenient Truth

Director: Davis Guggenheim
Cast: Al Gore

A Japanese Village ─ Furuyashikimura

Director: Shinsuke Ogawa
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

THE LAST DINOSAUR

Director: Tom Kotani / Alex Grasshoff
Cast: Richard Boone / Joan Van Ark / Masumi Sekiya

LETTER FROM THE MOUNTAIN

Director: Takashi Koizumi
Cast: Akira Terao / Kanako Higuchi / Tanie Kitabayashi

Living on the River Agano

Director: Makoto Sato
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

MATAGI-Old Bear Hunter-

Director: Toshio Goto
Cast: Ko Nishimura / Hiroe Hayashi / Goichi Yamada

Shiranui Sea

Director: Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

VIRUS

Director: Fukasaku Kinji
Cast: Masao Kusakari / Olivia Hussey / George Kennedy

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animecs TIFF 2008

HELLS ANGELS

Director: Yoshinobu Yamakawa
Cast: Misato Fukuen / Daisuke Kishio / Fumihiko Tachiki

The Universe of Kawamori Shoji

Director: Shoji Kawamori
Cast: 《An Animation Film》

Tezuka Osamu Experimental Film Works

Director: Osamu Tezuka
Cast: 《An Animation Film》

TV selection of Tezuka Osamu

Director: Osamu Tezuka
Cast: 《An Animation Film》

THE FANTASTIC ADVENTURE OF UNICO

Director: Toshio Hirata
Cast: Katsu Miwa / Kazuko Sugiyama / Ayako Hori

UNICO IN THE ISLAND OF MAGIC

Director: Norimi Murano
Cast: Katsue Miwa / Fujio Tokita / Shuichi Ikeda

MARINE EXPRESS

Director: Osamu Tezuka
Cast: Kosei Tomita / Junichi Takeoka / Nachi Nozawa

PHOENIX -DAWN-

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Cast: Tomisaburou Wakayama / Toshinori Omi / Tatsuya Nakadai

PHOENIX 2772 (SPACE FIREBIRD)

Director: Taku Sugiyama
Cast: Kaneto Shiozawa / Kazuo Kumakura / Katsue Miwa

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Nippon Cinema Classics

Doctor's Day Off

Director: Minoru Shibuya
Cast: Rentaro Mikuni / Eijiro Yanagi / Koji Tsuruta

The Vendetta of the 47 Loyal Ronin

Director: Kunio Watanabe
Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa and all-star cast

Bloody Spear at Mt Fuji

Director: Tomu Uchida
Cast: Chiezo Kataoka / Ryunosuke Tsukigata / Daisuke Kato

Brutal Tales of Chivalry

Director: Kiyoshi Saeki
Cast: Ken Takakura / Ryo Ikebe / Tatsuo Umemiya

The Rickshaw Man

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Cast: Tsumasaburo Bando / Keiko Sonoi

Nakano Spy School

Director: Yasuzo Masumura
Cast: Raizo Ichikawa / Mayumi Ogawa / Daisuke Kato

The Emperor and a General

Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Cast: Toshiro Mifune / So Yamamura / Chishu Ryu

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Cinema Vibration

Young@Heart

Director: Stephen Walker
Cast: Bob Cilman / Eileen Hall / Stan Goldman

Problems in One’s Forties

Director: Yuji Nakae
Cast: Takashi Hamazaki / Shinichi Osawa / Hidetoshi Sakurai

ROUTE134STORY Feathers of a Chamomile

Director: Micro
Cast: Hiroki Narimiya / Ayumi Ito / Kayoko Kishimoto

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Special Program

Rashomon

Director: AKIRA KUROSAWA
Cast: Toshiro Mifune / Machiko Kyo / Masayuki Mori

FUSA

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Cast: Yuko Asano / Kiichi Nakai / Frankie Sakai

Tora-san Goes Religious?

Director: Yoji Yamada
Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi / Chieko Baisho / Keiko Takeshita

The Audition

Director: Susan Froemke
Cast: Alek Shrader / Ryan Smith / Angela Meade

King Solomon's Ring

Director: Stage Direction: Koichi Ogita / Visual Direction: Naoki Hashimoto
Cast: Takarazuka Revue Company / Natsuki Mizu / Yuri Shirahane

BU.SU

Director: Jun Ichikawa
Cast: Yasuko Tomita / Michiyo Ogusu / Kazue Ito

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Director's Angle

World of Shunji Iwai

Director: Shunji Iwai
Cast:

World of Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast:

World of Yojiro Takita

Director: Yojiro Takita
Cast:

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Minato Screening

WHERE'S WINKY'S HORSE

Director: Mischa Kamp
Cast:

KARLA'S WORLD

Director: Charlotte Sachs Bostrup
Cast:

Summer Days with Coo

Director: Keiichi Hara
Cast: 《An Animation Film》

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