Politics, Isolation, Pandemic: The 35th Tokyo International Film Festival Kohei Usuda January 2023 Festival Reports If an argument can be made that film festivals reflect some of the unique traits of their host cities, the sprawling format of the Tokyo International Film Festival certainly bears out this hypothesis. Alth...
The Pivot to Asia: The 34th Tokyo International Film Festival Kohei Usuda February 2022 Festival Reports Preamble Following the previous year’s abbreviated edition – when the global pandemic forced organisers to scale back the event and forgo its main competition – the Tokyo International Film Festival returned i...
“Sense of Place”: The 33rd Tokyo International Film Festival Kohei Usuda January 2021 Festival Reports The Tokyo International Film Festival commenced on October 31 under the most unusual of circumstances, in the backdrop of a deadly pandemic that upended 2020’s festival calendar and forced movie theatres to go ...
