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Set in a small village in southern Iran. Hibat was born as one of many children in a large family. His siblings each goes their own way, but Hibat becomes interested in the anti-government movement...
Director: Kheiron
Competition/Asian Premiere
© 2015 BTB Blue Productions Ltd / BTBB Productions SPV Limited
“Born to be Blue” is a re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Baker's life in the 1960s. When Chet (with talent to burn and movie-star looks that have him dubbed the "James Dean of Jazz") stars in a film...
Director: Robert Budreau
Competition/Asian Premiere
©Karafilm
Kalandar Soğuğu
Mehmet is a man living with his family in a mountain village in Black Sea. He earns his life breeding a few animals, while looking for a mineral reserve on the mountains but his pursuit is seen as ...
Director: Mustafa Kara
Competition/World Premiere
© endorfilm s.r.o., 42film GmbH, Česká televize, Arsmedia d.o.o., Rouge International, Punkchart films s.r.o.
Rodinný film
A couple embark on an early vacation. Left alone, their children cut loose until the boy gets caught for skipping school and things take an unexpected turn. Boasting exquisite camerawork, the film ...
Director: Olmo Omerzu
Competition/Asian Premiere
FOUJITA is Director Kohei Oguri’s first work filmed partially outside of his native country. His desire to expand his horizons and shoot part of his film in France mirrors Foujita’s own expe...
Director: Kohei Oguri
Competition/World Premiere
© Lemming Film 2015
“Full Contact” is a contemporary tale of a man who accidentally bombs a wrong target through a remotely operated drone. Ivan, operating the drone from a far-away air force base, has never been to t...
Director: David Verbeek
Competition/Asian Premiere
Khaneye Dokhtar
Tomorrow is Samira's wedding ceremony and Bahar and Parisa are shopping excitedly. But at night somebody calls and tells them that the bride is dead and the wedding has been called off. They are bo...
Director: Shahram Shah Hosseini
Competition/International Premiere
© 2015 WILDSIDE
Se Dio Vuole
Tommaso is a respected heart surgeon, but rather arrogant, always bragging about his brilliance. His relationship with his long time wife Carla has been not so great lately. They have two children....
Director: Edoardo Falcone
Competition/International Premiere
©"The Inerasable" Film Partners
The film The Inerasable is based on a horror novel which earned Fuyumi Ono, famous for her “Shiki” and The Twelve Kingdoms series, the 26th Yamamoto Shugoro Literary Prize. Yoshihiro Nakamur...
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Competition/World Premiere
© Danish Film Institute
Under Sandet
Young German soldiers are sent to remove land mines along the Danish coast after WWII. Though once aligned with the Nazis, some of them have no experience of war, causing the commander’s attitude t...
Director: Martin Pieter Zandvliet
Competition/Asian Premiere
A Monster with a Thousand Heads
Un Monstruo de mil cabezas
A sick man takes a sudden turn for the worse. His wife, who is caring for him at home, hurriedly contacts the family doctor, but something unexpected happens. This stunning, non-stop suspense cente...
Director: Rodrigo Plá
Competition/Asian Premiere
© Wanda Media Co.,Ltd © Single Man (Beijing) Culture Development Co.,Ltd
我的青春期
Teenager Zhao Shanshan begins to fall secretly in love with school beauty Li Chunxia, but a bully takes Li away by force. In a desperate university life, Zhao finds his interests in film and commit...
Director: Hao Jie
Competition/World Premiere
© TvZero
Nise - O Coração da Loucura
Dr. Nise da Silveira arrives in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doc...
Director: Roberto Berliner
Competition/International Premiere
©Filmiühistu "Roukli"
Roukli
Some young people are living a self-contained life in a secluded spot, when the calm is broken by the roar of jet fighters and other signs of war. The work depicts the irrationality that pervades t...
Director: Veiko Õunpuu
Competition/Asian Premiere
©2015 "Sayonara" Production Committee
The world's first human-android acting duo, called Android Theater Project, is the collaborative brainchild of noted Japanese playwright Oriza Hirata and the leading robotics scientist Hiroshi Ishi...
Director: Koji Fukada
Competition/World Premiere
©TrueVisions Group Co., Ltd.
SA-NAP
Pueng, daughter of a military Colonel, has planned to spend her married life with Mann, a young Lieutenant with a promising future. On the day Martial Law was announced, she received a wedding invi...
Director: Kongdej Jaturanrasmee
Competition/World Premiere
WOWOW Viewer's Choice Award Winning Film
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Competition
Takuji Kameoka is a 37-year-old bachelor whose occupation is a “miscellaneous actor”. His only interest is drinking. One day he falls in love and his boring life begins to change. The film is based...
Director: Satoko Yokohama
Asian Future/World Premiere
Mencari Hilal
A journey of father and son. Mahmud, an Islamic conservative, and Heli, a young liberal, are pushed to travel together in search of hilal, the very first new crescent moon, which also defines their...
Director: Ismail Basbeth
Asian Future/International Premiere
©paramhans creations pvt.ltd
Kaash
Frustrated with his dwindling relationship, Aadil, a dreamy young photographer, spontaneously sets off to meet a girl he has connected with over the vast universe of the Internet. Far from the urba...
Director: Ishaan Nair
Asian Future/World Premiere
©Extra Virgin
Maha Samut Lae Susaan
Laila sets out on a road trip to Pattani, one of the three southernmost Thai provinces, to visit her long-lost aunt. Her brother and his friend are tagging along. The three take off from Bangkok du...
Director: Pimpaka Towira
Asian Future/World Premiere
©Public Television Services
小孩
Bao-li has just started 8th grade, when he comes to the rescue of Jia-jia, an older girl he immediately falls in love with. When Jia-jia becomes pregnant with their daughter, Bao-li drops out of sc...
Director: Sunny Yu
Asian Future/International Premiere
© Sun Entertainment Culture Limited
同班同學
Tracy and Chloe have been best friends since they were eight years old, while Alice befriended them after a bullying incident. Since then, the trio have become close friends and share their lives u...
Director: Luk Yee-sum
Asian Future/World Premiere
© 2014 JUPITER FILM
내 심장을 쏴라
One night, Soo-myung and Seung-min meet for the first time at an asylum. Soo-myung has been in a mental hospital with an abusive staff and noisy patients since he was 19, after his mother’s death. ...
Director: Mun Che-yong
Asian Future/International Premiere
告别
This film expresses feeling in a highly obscure way. It presents a seemingly desultory time period to tell the story of two generations. A young girl who’s confused about what lies ahead is sent to...
Director: Degena Yun
Asian Future/World Premiere
© MİNT FİLM YAPIMCILIK A.Ş.
Merdiven Baba
Mr. Fazlı is recognized as an inadequate and ineffective person by everyone, including his family, but his routine life changes with the purchase of an old truck. Buying the airport's old stair veh...
Director: Hasan Tolga Pulat
Asian Future/International Premiere
©Design Partner(UK) LTD.
少年巴比伦
In the latter part of the last century, Lu Xiaolu has just graduated from technical school and is currently working in a chemical factory. He hasn’t a clue about what he will do in the future or ho...
Director: Xiang Guoqiang
Asian Future/International Premiere
©2015 humanite
“We have to kill him”, the wife and her lover thought. When three childhood friends reunite, it doesn't take long before two of them feel the woman's husband is in their way. They push him into a l...
Director: Michio Koshikawa
Japanese Splash/World Premiere
©Third Window Films
Tetsuo is a lowlife. As a film director, he had an indie hit many years back, but refuses to go against his artistic integrity. One day, two new students come to his school: Minami, a naive girl fr...
Director: Eiji Uchida
Japanese Splash/World Premiere
Hiroshi Shoji's feature directorial debut, based on his eponymous 2011 short. Partners in crime Ken and Kazu use an auto repair shop to sell drugs and make money. When Ken's girlfriend Saki gets pr...
Director: Hiroshi Shoji
Japanese Splash/World Premiere
©2015 NIKKATSU, So-net Entertainment, Ariola Japan
The latest unconventional romance from Rikiya Imaizumi (Sad Tea) traces the intricate connections between seven men and women. Shoe repairman Leon meets feisty drunk Suna, and can't stop thi...
Director: Rikiya Imaizumi
Japanese Splash/World Premiere
©"Spring has come" Production Committee
Riko, who will begin university in Tokyo in spring, journeys there from Hiroshima in February with her father to find a place for her to live. On their travels, they meet various colorful character...
Director: Ryohei Yoshino
Japanese Splash/World Premiere
©2015 GEEK PICTURES
“You're a sicko”. University student Taeko is appalled by her kooky friend Maya's attraction to her father, Kyosuke. His affair with workmate Hazuki results in her pregnancy. His divorce from cance...
Director: Kenji Yamauchi
Japanese Splash/World Premiere
©Foolish Piggies Films
In a farming village north of Tokyo, a man lives with his aging grandmother and works day after day at a cow shed that looks like a relic from another era. Their routine repeats in tune with nature...
Director: Hirobumi Watanabe
Japanese Splash/World Premiere
© Tokyo Sunrise Partnership
Ren has trouble accepting the death of Kaoru, his best friend growing up. When he finds a painting of a woman that Kaoru left behind, he begins a journey to find her. This film depicts Ren's radian...
Director: Ryutaro Nakagawa
Japanese Splash/World Premiere
©2015 TriStar Pictures, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
[10/22 13:30 SCREEN1] The Walk
Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man - Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Overcoming ...
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Special Screenings/Japanese Premiere
[10/22 13:10 SCREEN2] The Walk
Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man - Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Overcoming ...
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Special Screenings/Japanese Premiere
[10/22 13:50 SCREEN8] The Walk
Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man - Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Overcoming ...
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Special Screenings/Japanese Premiere
©2015 Shino Sakuragi, Shogakukan/Terminal Partners
[10/31 14:30 SCREEN2] Closing Ceremony(Live Relay) + TERMINAL
The masterpiece of Shino Sakuragi, who won the 149th Naoki Prize for "HOTEL ROYAL" in 2013, is now a motion picture. A lawyer burdened with an inexpiable sin, and an accused woman who seals her pas...
Director: Tetsuo Shinohara
Special Screenings
[10/31 14:30 SCREEN7] Closing Ceremony + TERMINAL
The masterpiece of Shino Sakuragi, who won the 149th Naoki Prize for "HOTEL ROYAL" in 2013, is now a motion picture. A lawyer burdened with an inexpiable sin, and an accused woman who seals her pas...
Director: Tetsuo Shinohara
Special Screenings
© Universal Pictures
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain, EVEREST documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challen...
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Special Screenings/Japanese Premiere
©THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY / BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION / ORIGIN PICTURES (WOMAN IN GOLD) LIMITED 2015
Oscar-winner Helen Mirren's latest starring film. An elderly Jewish lady, Maria Altman, who lives in America, files a claim against the Austrian Government. She seeks justice for what happened to h...
Director: Simon Curtis
Special Screenings/Japanese Premiere
The hard-boiled MOZU police series by author Go Osaka was made into a TV series first, and now, director Eiichiro Hasumi, the hit-maker of the UMIZARU series brings it to the big screen! Kuraki, Os...
Director: Eiichiro Hasumi
Special Screenings/World Premiere
Hilary Swank, two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner for Million Dollar Baby and Boys Don't Cry, delivers a deeply emotional performance and shows wonderful chemistry with Emmy Ro...
Director: George C. Wolfe
Special Screenings/Japanese Premiere
© 2015 Galatée Films - Pathé Production - France 2 Cinéma - Pandora Film - Invest Image 3 - Rhône-Alpes Cinéma - Winds - Pierre et Vacances
LES ＳＡＩＳＯＮＳ
Directors of Oceans create a new nature documentary. The orbit of the earth changed and the Ice Age ended about 20,000 years ago. Temperatures went up rapidly, ice melted into the oceans, la...
Director: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud
Special Screenings/World Premiere
'Photo Credit:Caitlin Cronenberg, ©See-Saw Films
In the 1950s James Dean brought "real acting" to Hollywood and became a legend. The talented photographer Dennis Stock met James Dean just before his debut and was mesmerized by his charisma. They...
Director: Anton Corbijn
Special Screenings/Japanese Premiere
Ajin, an undying new form of human, are hunted mercilessly by the Japanese government. The hit comic series Ajin(Gamon Sakurai, published by KODANSHA Ltd.), which chronicles their battle with tight...
Director: Hiroyuki Seshita (Supervising Director) / Hiroaki Ando (Director)
Panorama/World Premiere
Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno Live!
Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno Live! follows Isabella Rossellini, as she embarks on a world tour of her live one-woman show based on her hit internet series, Green Porno. Our cameras foll...
Director: Jody Shapiro
Panorama/Asian Premiere
INGRID BERGMAN - IN HER OWN WORDS
JAG ÄR INGRID
Year 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of Ingrid Bergman's birth. Taking Hollywood's golden age by storm, she is remembered not only for her beauty, but also for her supreme acting skills, having wo...
Director: Stig Björkman
Panorama/Japanese Premiere
WE ARE Perfume -WORLD TOUR 3rd DOCUMENT
WE ARE Perfume -WORLD TOUR 3rd DOCUMENT is a first documentary film of Perfume, a Japanese pop girl's group to commemorate the 10th year anniversary of their major label debut and 15th anniv...
Director: Taketoshi Sado
Panorama/World Premiere
©2015 Go! Princess Pretty Cure the Movie Production Committee
Go! Princess Pretty Cure the Movie Go! Go!! Gorgeous Triple Feature!!!
The movie this time around is the first for Pretty Cure: Go! Go!! Gorgeous Triple Feature!!! It's a sparkling Happy Halloween party at the movie theater!! This fall, the highly popular TV series ...
Director: Akifumi Zako, Hiroshi Miyamoto, Yukio Kaizawa
Panorama/World Premiere
[10/29 19:50 WALD9 Theater2] Garakowa -Restore The World-
An animated film adaptation of the winning entry of the first Animeka Taisho Award. Brilliant rays of colorful light float in a space devoid of gravity – “The Box of Wisdom”. A space inhabited by m...
Director: Masashi Ishihama
Panorama/World Premiere
[10/29 22:00 WALD9 Theater2] Garakowa -Restore The World-
An animated film adaptation of the winning entry of the first Animeka Taisho Award. Brilliant rays of colorful light float in a space devoid of gravity – “The Box of Wisdom”. A space inhabited by m...
Director: Masashi Ishihama
Panorama/World Premiere
©2015 WAGAMAMA MEDIA LLC.
Sake, Japan's national beverage, has been getting global popularity over the recent years. Brewed from rice and water with the help of Koji mold and yeast—it seems so simple, and on surface, it is....
Director: Mirai Konishi
Panorama/Asian Premiere
© 2014 B REEL. All Rights Reserved.
We follow some of the most influential international food fanatics on their world tours to Michelin restaurants. They constitute a type of culinary jet set who have often made themselves fortunes e...
Director: Thomas Jackson, Charlotte Landelius, Henrik Stockare
Panorama/Japanese Premiere
©2015 “BIKUU” Keita Amemiya / Tohokushinsha
Since its first telecast in 2005, the GARO franchise became a smash hit content and established a new style of "Tokusatsu". Its dark and unique view of the world, stylish footages by taking full ad...
Director: Akira Ohashi
Panorama/World Premiere
“Sakura no Ame” is a song viewed more than 4.2 million times in “niconico” video sharing website in Japan. After the release of the song by Vocaloid-virtual-idle Hatsune Miku, this heart touching s...
Director: Atsushi Ueda
Panorama/World Premiere
©NihonEiga Investment LLC
Joe,Tomorrow–20 years with JoichiroTatsuyoshi, a Legendary Boxing Champ
This documentary film directed by Junji Sakamoto (debut in boxing movie Dotsuitarunen),follows legendary boxing champ Joichiro Tatsuyoshi over 20 years. Narrated by actor Etsushi Toyokawa.
Director: Junji Sakamoto
Panorama/World Premiere
©2014 - Damselfish Holdings LLC
The film adaptation of Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn's new thriller with Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult and Chloe Grace Moretz! The sole survivor of a family murder where she witnessed th...
Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Panorama/Japanese Premiere
Chieri and Cherry : ©Chieri and Cherry Project Cheburashka Goes to the Zoo : ©Cheburashka Project
Chieri and Cherry (Screened together with Cheburashka Goes to the Zoo )
Chieri is a 6th grade elementary school girl. Her father died when she was little, so she lives with just her mother. The only friend of Chieri had been a stuffed doll Cherry which she found on a s...
Director: Makoto Nakamura
Panorama
Something Like Something Like It
Shinden is an overly serious rakugo comic storyteller apprentice. He encounters his senior, Shintoto, who had given up rakugo to live a more carefree lifestyle. As Shinden deals with various strugg...
Director: Taiichi Sugiyama
Panorama/World Premiere
©2014 STUDIOCANAL S.A. TF1 FILMS PRODUCTION S.A.S PADDINGTON BEAR™, PADDINGTON™ AND PB™ ARE TRADEMARKS OF PADDINGTON AND COMPANY LIMITED
A bear called Paddington comes to London to find a home from deep in the jungle. The kind Brown family puts him up and his new city life begins with a series of accidents. He becomes popular becaus...
Director: Paul King
Panorama/Japanese Premiere
From director Cary Joji Fukunaga, and set in West Africa, the story of Agu, a young villager, enjoying dinner with his family. But the happy routines of childhood are shattered when army troops fro...
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Panorama/Asian Premiere
©2015 Luka Productions
This film took five years to be completed as Hollywood debut by Kazuaki Kiriya, the director who created finest world in CASSHERN and GOEMON. It stars Morgan Freeman, the Oscar winne...
Director: Kazuaki Kiriya
Panorama/Japanese Premiere
HE NAMED ME MALALA is an intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Taliban gunmen opened fire on her and her friends’ school bus in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. The then-15-year...
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Panorama
21 NUITS AVEC PATTIE
21 Nights with Pattie, directed by Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu.
In high summer, Caroline, a Parisian wife and mother, arrives in a small village in southern France. There, she has to organize the funeral of her mother, a flighty lawyer whom she hardly knew. She...
Director: Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu
World Focus/Asian Premiere
©Los Films de Orfeo
L'Accademia delle Muse
On returning from class, a professor is questioned by his wife, who distrusts his pedagogic project: an "Academy of the Muses" inspired by classical references, which is supposed to contribute to r...
Director: José Luis Guerin
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
Sangue Del Mio Sangue
Federico, a young priest, is summoned by the 17th-Century Inquisition to a convent prison in Bobbio. His mission is to coerce Sister Benedetta to confess that she has seduced and driven to death he...
Director: Marco Bellocchio
World Focus/Asian Premiere
Cialo
Poland, nowadays. The intertwined stories of a criminal prosecutor, who sees dead bodies in his everyday life which in his lonely world become mere objects; his anorexic daughter who sees her body ...
Director: Małgorzata Szumowska
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
© Alfama Films
Witold has just failed his law exams, and Fuchs has recently quit his job at a Parisian fashion label. Both are going to spend a few days in the countryside, and choose to stay at a so-called famil...
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
World Focus/Asian Premiere
© Kinorama, Gustav film, SEE Film Pro
ZVIZDAN
Three different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred: this is a film about the dangers—and the end...
Director: Dalibor Matanić
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse communities in the USA and the world. Some of the issues the film raises—assimilation, integration, immig...
Director: Frederick Wiseman
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
La tierra y la sombra
Alfonso is an old farmer who has returned home to tend to his son, who is gravely ill. He rediscovers his old house, where the woman who was once his wife still lives, with his daughter-in-law and ...
Director: César Augusto Acevedo
World Focus/Asian Premiere
©2015 Graniet Film, Czar TV, VARA - All rights reserved.
SCHNEIDER VS BAX
Schneider, a hit man, gets a call from Mertens on the morning of his birthday. He has a last-minute assignment for Schneider who refuses it, because it is his birthday and he has promised Lucy, his...
Director: Alex van Warmerdam
World Focus/Asian Premiere
© Tangerine Film, LLC
It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the sex worker and her best friend...
Director: Sean Baker
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
The Terrible Privacy of Mr. Sim
La vie très privée de Monsieur Sim
François Sim seems to have hit rock bottom. Estranged from his father, newly divorced, unable to communicate with his only daughter, he realizes that, while he may have seventy-four friends on Face...
Director: Michel Leclerc
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
©Matchfactory
Victoria, a young woman from Madrid, meets four young Berlin guys outside a club. Sonne and his gang have got themselves into hot water and Victoria ends up as their driver. But what starts as a bi...
Director: Sebastian Schipper
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
© 2015 All Rights Reserved by CKF Pictures Huayi Brothers Media Corporation Artisan Pictures
少年班
On September 3, 1998, the first day of school. 22 talented prodigies arrive at a prestigious school by bus. They are a group of students called the Youth Class, who will receive top-notch education...
Director: Xiao Yang
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
Abluka
Istanbul is in the grip of political violence. Hamza, a high-ranking police officer, offers Kadir a conditional release from prison, in exchange for working in the new intelligence unit of garbage ...
Director: Emin Alper
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
©YKB HOS Tjokroaminoto
Guru Bangsa Tjokroaminoto
The Hijra is an anti-radicalism statement. This is particularly important considering Indonesia consists of 190 million Muslim citizens. The film shows that Islam developed rapidly in Indone...
Director: Garin Nugroho
World Focus/International Premiere
©2015 pd; psbt
AR Rahman has single-handedly catapulted Indian film music to the world stage. Time Magazine has placed him in its list of World's Most Influential People. His prolific body of work, over 120 film ...
Director: Umesh Aggarwal
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
O Kadhal Kanmani
O Kadhal Kanmani is an unconventional tale of romance mapped out in Mumbai, and weaves its lyrical tale through the fabric of the city’s drastically bipolar persona... Set against the backdr...
Director: Mani Ratnam
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
© JEONWONSA Film Co.
지금은맞고그때는틀리다
Film director Chun-su arrives in Suwon a day early by mistake, and kills time at an old palace. There he meets an artist named Yoon Hee-jung. Together, they look at Hee-jung’s paintings, have dinne...
Director: Hong Sang-soo
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
Gtsngbo／河
Little girl Yangchan Lhamo’s shepherd father Guru has a motorbike accident. The villagers think it must be bad karma coming back to him from having neglected his own father, a well-respected monk. ...
Director: Sonthar Gyal
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
©Emperor Film Production Company Limited
破風
The success of Radiant, one of the world’s top cycling teams, is undermined when competition heats up within, between the three principal riders, each aspiring to be number one. As the code of team...
Director: Dante Lam
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
©Renaissance Films Limited
風中家族
In the year 1949, as the long-fought Civil War in China comes to a close, three young Nationalist soldiers come across an orphaned boy as they flee from the encroaching Communists. The three men an...
Director: Wang Tung
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
百日告別
On the same day, in the same accident, Yuwei loses his pregnant wife and Ming loses her fiancé, leaving their world with nothing but emptiness. Buddhist rituals give 100 days to mourn for the dead,...
Director: Tom Shu-yu Lin
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
Old Well [Digitally Restored Version]
老井
The film revolves around the story of several generations of farmers digging wells, reflecting the struggle of the contemporary rural to conquer nature and overcome themselves, as well as different...
Director: Wu Tianming
World Focus
Taklub
There is a time to mourn and a time to rebuild… After Super Typhoon Haiyan, which changed the city of Tacloban in the Philippines into a horrendous state, the lives of Bebeth, Larry and Erwin inter...
Director: Brillante Ma Mendoza
CROSSCUT ASIA #02 The Heat of Philippine Cinema/Japanese Premiere
©Seiko Films
This is a drama centered on the state of foster care in the Philippines. Thelma, together with her husband Dado and teenage sons Gerald and Yuri, belongs to an urban poor family hired by a local fo...
Director: Brillante Ma Mendoza
CROSSCUT ASIA #02 The Heat of Philippine Cinema/Japanese Premiere
Serbis
Morality has two sides—absolute and relative. The Pineda family operates and lives in a run-down movie house which shows dated sexy double-feature films. As the rest of the members go about their d...
Director: Brillante Ma Mendoza
CROSSCUT ASIA #02 The Heat of Philippine Cinema/Japanese Premiere
©The Match Factory
LOLA
Lola Sepa's grandson was killed by the sudden violence. Though devastated, she and her family are poor and do not have enough money for a proper burial nor the legal pursuit to bring justice for he...
Director: Brillante Ma Mendoza
CROSSCUT ASIA #02 The Heat of Philippine Cinema
©CENTER STAGE PRODUCTIONS CO.
SINAPUPUNAN
Shaleha Sarail hails from a water-village in Tawi-Tawi, in the southernmost Philippines. Now her youth and fecundity are all gone, Shaleha agonizes that she will never fulfill her husband Bangas - ...
Director: Brillante Ma Mendoza
CROSSCUT ASIA #02 The Heat of Philippine Cinema/Japanese Premiere
©Solar Entertainment Corporation and Center Stage Productions
Jun, an heir to the duck farm left to him by his late father, must decide between selling the property to secure a future with his partner, or sparing the family of the land’s loyal caretakers from...
Director: Paul Sta. Ana
CROSSCUT ASIA #02 The Heat of Philippine Cinema/International Premiere
BalikBayan#1 Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III.5 (Working Title, 1979-2015)
Kidlat Tahimik of Perfumed Nightmare (1977) and Turumba (1983) is well-known in Japan as a cross-genre artist who participated in the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale. BalikBayan #1
Director: Kidlat Tahimik
CROSSCUT ASIA #02 The Heat of Philippine Cinema/Japanese Premiere
©Solar Entertainment Corporation and Center Stage Productions
Imbisibol
Invisible (Imbisibol) essays the story of four Filipino migrant workers in Japan, a crucial encounter that mirrors the difficult challenges that confront the “Pinoy” diaspora. The main chara...
Director: Lawrence Fajardo
CROSSCUT ASIA #02 The Heat of Philippine Cinema
© TEN17P & ABS-CBN Film Productions Inc.
Emmanuel lives a hand-to-mouth existence, caught between the crossfire of his family's daily struggles and inherent threats borne from his surroundings. One day, he discovers his true talent—boxing...
Director: Paul Soriano
CROSSCUT ASIA #02 The Heat of Philippine Cinema/Japanese Premiere
Miracle [Digitally Restored Version]
Himala
Inconsequential lass Elsa (Nora Aunor) witnesses an apparition of the Virgin Mary. The village people's initial reaction is disbelief until she starts to heal. People, both rich and poor, throng to...
Director: Ishmael Bernal
CROSSCUT ASIA #02 The Heat of Philippine Cinema/Japanese Premiere
©2015 Akimi Yoshida, SHOGAKUKAN / FUJI TELEVISION NETWORK INC. / SHOGAKUKAN INC. / TOHO CO., LTD. / GAGA CORPORATION
Three sisters—Sachi, Yoshino and Chika—live together in a large house in Kamakura. When their father—absent from the family home for the last 15 years—dies, they travel to the countryside for his f...
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Japan Now
Kazoku wa Tsuraiyo (original title)
20 years since "Tora-san" series, Yoji Yamada has created a long-awaited comedy! Isao Hashizume and Kazuko Yoshiyuki of Tokyo Family play a mature couple on the brink of divorce in a perfect...
Director: Yoji Yamada
Japan Now
©Shochiku Broadcasting / Arc Films
Ryosuke Hashiguchi of All Around Us and Hush! sensitively portrays three dissatisfied people—a man who lost his wife in a random killing, an ordinary housewife and a gay lawyer—with s...
Director: Ryosuke Hashiguchi
Japan Now
The untold story of O-Ei, Master Hokusai's daughter: a lively portrayal of a free-spirited, utterly outspoken and hugely talented woman and artist, unfolding through the changing seasons. "We're fa...
Director: Keiichi Hara
Japan Now
The last diary of Osamu Tezuka, known as "God of Comics", has been crafted into an original movie. Yojiro Noda, the frontman for the popular talented rock band "RADWIMPS", is playing the lead in th...
Director: Daishi Matsunaga
Japan Now
An adaptation of Shohei Ooka’s novel that depicts itinerant Japanese soldiers in the Philippines during the final phase of World War II from the viewpoint of a single private, and stresses the horr...
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Japan Now
Latest work after three years by Mamoru Hosoda, one of the hottest animation directors with each of his works regarded as a masterpiece. Evolving around an unusual mentoring relationship between a ...
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Japan Now
Movie star Rengo commits suicide and it is his childhood friend Daiki who discovers the body. The grieving Daiki makes a copy of his suicide note and soon afterward announces that he will write a b...
Director: Isao Yukisada
Japan Now
Shigeo (29), an underdog who gets beaten into amnesia, goes through a desperate struggle to remember his own identity with the help of a lone teenager Kasumi (17) who lives with her demented grandf...
Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita
Japan Now
Ryoichi Suzuki works for a company. A failed rock musician, his life is frustrating and miserable. He likes a colleague, Yuko, but he is too timid to talk to her. One day Ryoichi finds a little pet...
Director: Sion Sono
Japan Now
Since finding elderly men with some problems and meaning habits, Sawa, a helper does housework and care work for them, and enters into their life lightly. The elderly men who lost whereabouts in so...
Director: Momoko Ando
Japan Now
Since his lover was killed by yakuza, Tatsuo has feared his own life and being forced to live as a fugitive. He meets a taxi driver named Kazumasa, and their journey begins. Tatsuo, a victim of unj...
Director: Masato Harada
Japan Now
On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes and 520 passengers are killed. The local press reporters are tossed about by waves of facts and speculation. While overwhelmed by the magnitude of the accide...
Director: Masato Harada
Japan Now
Based on an autobiographical novel by a literary giant of the Showa era, Yasushi Inoue. This is Harada's first family drama, in the lineage of Yasujiro Ozu and Ingmar Bergman, two of the great mast...
Director: Masato Harada
Japan Now
KAKEKOMI
Set in 1841. Jogo, a blacksmith wanting a divorce, and O-Gin, a concubine of a wealthy merchant flee to Tokei-ji temple. Entwined in the story is a trainee doctor and wanna-be playwright Shinjiro, ...
Director: Masato Harada
Japan Now
Toward the end of the Pacific War, the Allies demand that Japan accept the Potsdam Declaration. The cabinet debates round-the-clock whether to keep fighting or to surrender. While the tactical situ...
Director: Masato Harada
Japan Now
RAN [4K Digitally Restored Version]
Akira Kurosawa said at the production announcement in December 1983, "RAN is my lifework. I want to pour all my remaining energy into this work". Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece RAN has ...
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Japanese Classics/Japanese Premiere
Conflagration [4K Digitally Restored Version]
Goichi starts working as an apprentice in Shukaku Temple common name in Kyoto in spring of 1944, which he worships. However, the temple bec...
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Japanese Classics/Japanese Premiere
Giant Monster Mid-Air Battle: Gamera vs. Gyaos [Digitally Restored Version]
Monster Gyaos is awakened by unusual volcanic activity on Mt. Fuji. It goes on a violent rampage, attacking people. Nagoya Castle is destroyed and the whole area is engulfed in fire. Attracted by t...
Director: Noriaki Yuasa
Japanese Classics
Gamera—The Guardian of the Universee [4K Digitally Restored Version]
A fierce duel of supersonic. The guardian Gamera must defeat Gyaos for future of children! Following Gyaos revived beyond the time distant, Gamera has awaked from long sleep. The fierce battle betw...
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Japanese Classics
Gamera 2—Assault of the Legion [4K Digitally Restored Version]
Countdown to mankind catastrophe. Is it Japan or Legion to die off? New monster Legion attacks the Earth. It is explosively breeding with the silicon lifeblood, symbiotically living together with h...
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Japanese Classics
Gamera 3—Revenge of Iris [4K Digitally Restored Version]
The war for existence of Earth begins! The end of the century, the mass generated Gyaos appear in Shibuya. Gamera chasing Gyaos, also comes to the town in shambles. While Ayana, a girl who lost her...
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Japanese Classics
THEY WHO STEP ON THE TIGER'S TAIL
Musical comedy based on the Kabuki "Kanjincho" and the Noh "Ataka". Akira Kurosawa wanted to make a film in the Age of Provincial Wars, but shoot it in a studio due to war time shortages. Released ...
Director: Akira Kurosawa
TIFF2015 presents Special Night Event at Kabukiza Theatre
Throw Away Your Books, Let’s Go into the Streets
Throw Away Your Books, Let’s G0 into the Streets is the film adaptation of a documentary-cum-musical play of the same name that the Tenjo Sajiki theater troupe, headed by Terayama, staged in...
Director: Shuji Terayama
TERAYAMA FILMS
Pastoral Hide and Seek is an original feature film based on a collection of poetry anthology of the same name. The film is set in the Shimokita Peninsula in Aomori prefecture, and features v...
Director: Shuji Terayama
TERAYAMA FILMS
A young man is haunted by the lyrics of a “temari ball” song sung to him by his mother when he was a small child. Following his mother’s death, the young man goes on a journey in search of the lyri...
Director: Shuji Terayama
TERAYAMA FILMS
Set in a fictional small village, Farewell to the Ark is an epic story that charts the ups and downs of a family over the course of a century or so. The film presents several dichotomies, in...
Director: Shuji Terayama
TERAYAMA FILMS
TOEI’s Japanese Yakuza series determined Ken Takakura’s popularity. The outlaw group starts to dominate the turf of Fukagawa Kiba. The Kibamasas which has been keeping their own rules protects for ...
Director: Masahiro Makino
Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening
Abashiri Prison series, along with TOEI's Japanese Yakuza series, are blockbuster Ken Takakura starring films. 10 films were released in series over two and a half years. Combined with New Abashiri...
Director: Teruo Ishii
Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening
Brutal Tale of Chivalry Part 2
Starring Ken Takakura, this is one of his representative series along with Japanese Yakuza and Abashiri Prison. Ken Takakura with “Karajishi-Botan” tatoo comes back to the second episode of Brutal ...
Director: Kiyoshi Saeki
Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening
©KADOKAWA 1976
This movie was the first foreign movie released in China after the Cultural Revolution, and it became hugely popular in China. Leading actors Ken Takakura and Ryoko Nakano became so popular that ev...
Director: Junya Sato
Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening
©1977/2010Shochiku Co.,Ltd
A masterpiece of Pete Hamill is made into a movie starring veteran actors Ken Takakura, Chieko Baisho, Kiyoshi Atsumi, up-and-coming actors Tetsuya Takeda and Kaori Momoi. The film has won a variet...
Director: Yoji Yamada
Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening
©KADOKAWA 1978
Kadokawa Shoten made the film of a novel by Seiichi Morimura written for film adaptation as requested by Haruki Kadokawa. Killing skills have been drilled into a man by the authorities. But he pins...
Director: Junya Sato
Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening
©1980 Shochiku Co., Ltd.
The film is inspired by the main song for Shane (1953), "A Distant Cry from Spring". The story is about a man on a charge of murder, and a mother and her son, who are to hide him from the po...
Director: Yoji Yamada
Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening
Various relationships are portrayed in this masterpiece, set in Mashike town, Ohuyu Misaki cape and Sappporo city in Hokkaido. Singer Aki Yashiro's signature piece “Funauta” is used to great effect...
Director: Yasuo Furuhata
Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening
Facing an abolishment of the local line in Hokkaido, a hardcore man, who has been proudly living as a high spirited hardcore stationmaster of the dead-end station, is now facing his retirement and ...
Director: Yasuo Furuhata
Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
A man travels alone to China for his son, whom he hasn't heard from for a long while. The film shows the importance of relationship with other people through the man’s experience of emotional inter...
Director: Zhang Yimou, Yasuo Furuhata
Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening
MOBILE SUIT Z GUNDAM A NEW TRANSLATION - LOVE IS THE PULSE OF THE STARS
Director:
THE WORLD OF GUNDAM
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM CHAR'S COUNTERATTACK (Screened together with MOBILE SUIT SD GUNDAM )
Director:
THE WORLD OF GUNDAM
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM F91 (Screened together with MUSHA KNIGHT COMMANDO: SD GUNDAM SCRAMBLE )
Director:
THE WORLD OF GUNDAM
GUNDAM RECONGUISTA IN G (#1-#3、#26) (Screened together with RING OF GUNDAM )
Director:
THE WORLD OF GUNDAM
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM UNICORN episode 4 AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GRAVITY WELL
Director:
THE WORLD OF GUNDAM
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM UNICORN episode 7 OVER THE RAINBOW MX4D Screening
MediaMation MX4D™ Screening
Ticket Price: MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM UNICORN episode 7 OVER THE RAINBOW
MX4D screening is 2,500 yen (tax included)
(General admission ticket price:1,300...
Director:
THE WORLD OF GUNDAM
Welles' career in films in America, from Citizen Cane to Touch of Evil, is concisely told through interviews with his daughter Christopher Welles and Martin Scorsese.
Director: Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg
Orson Welles: The Known and the Unknown
Magician: The Astonishing Life & Work of Orson Welles
On his centenary, this film seeks the truth of Orson Welles thru his works and comments from the notable creators. After directorial debut Citizen Cane, he fought between profit and art for ...
Director: Chuck Workman
Orson Welles: The Known and the Unknown/Japanese Premiere
Une histoire immortelle
Director: Orson Welles
Orson Welles: The Known and the Unknown
Ghost Theater : © 2015 “Gekijorei” Film Partners | Don't Look Up : ©1995 WOWOW/BANDAI VISUAL | Cure : ©KADOKAWA 1997 | Ju-on : ©JU-ON Film Partners
Masters of J-Horror "Ghost Theater" "Don't Look Up" "Cure" "Ju-on"
Ghost Theater
Before Nakata’s seminal J-Horror masterpiece Ringu, he terrified Japanese audience with Don't Look Up. Now, returning to the roots of his first feature film,...
Director: Ghost Theater, Don't Look Up : Hideo Nakata
Cure : Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Ju-on : Takashi Shimizu
The Scariest Night of Japan ~ The Advent of Japanese Horror
All Night Screening Celebrating "CINEMA STUDIO" 200th Episode
“Drive” USA｜2011｜101min
“Drive” is an action crime film directed by a Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn. Ryan Gosling stars as a gateway driver.
©2011 Drive Film Hol...
Director: “Drive” Nicolas Winding Refn “A Woman Under the Influence” John Cassavetes “Any Day Now” Travis Fine “All for Cinema ver.1” “All for Cinema ver.2” “All for Cinema Director's Cut” Kensaku Kakimoto
All Night Screening celebrating "CINEMA STUDIO" 200th Episode
Special Collaboration with PFF 2015 PFF Award-Winning Film Screening "A Road"
The protagonist loved catching lizards when he was in grade school. Now he has entered an art university, which was a dream come true, but where has the excitement of catching lizards gone? A story...
Director: Daichi Sugimoto
PFF Award - Winning Film Screening
Rikutaro and Mariko are forced to become brother and sister by the recent remarriage of their parents. Their classmates poke fun at them and they decide to devise a plan to split up their parents.
Director: Koki Fukuyama
Screening of SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL D-Cinema FESTIVAL 2015
"ANIMANIMALS" | 2015| Germany | 4min
Director: Julia Ocker
When a zebra bumps into a tree, his stripes dissapper and start changing shapes. The more he struggles to get back his stripes, th...
Director: "ANIMANIMALS" Julia Ocker"Shimajiro: A World of WOW!" Hiroshi Kawamata "Mr. Hublot" Laurent Witz "Thomas & Friends" Wilbert Awdry "Shaun the Sheep" Richard Starzak "Bunny New Girl" Natalie Van Den Dungen
Minato Screening
"Reflections" | Israel｜2013｜ 6min
Director：Bosmat Agayoff, Alon Ziv
This is the story of Barnie, a grown man, playing around with his childish reflection in an urban landscape. But the f...
Director: "Reflections" Bosmat Agayoff, Alon Ziv "Home Sweet Home" Pierre Clenet, Alejandro Diaz, Romain Mazevet, Stéphane Paccolat "Shaun the Sheep" Richard Starzak "Boogaloo and Graham" Michael Lennox "Ice Cream" Serhat Karaaslan
Minato Screening
Les Oiseaux de Passage
"Les Oiseaux de Passage"
Margaux, a girl on a wheelchair is chosen as the mother by a newly born duckling. Considering her condition, her parents forbid her to let the duck in ...
Director: Les Oiseaux de PassageOlivier Ringer
Minato Screening
The Birth of Life, Creation of the Endangered Japanese Killifish
Japanese Killifish was designated as an endangered species by Ministry of the Environment in 2003. The life of Japanese Killifish from fertilization to be fry young fish is painstakingly documented...
Director: Sadao Toyooka
Bunka-cho Film Week 2015
Having lost her daughter and husband, a lonely and desperate old woman becomes mentally confused. Returning to her hometown after 38 years' absence, she gradually regains hope in life. The director...
Director: Katsumi Sakaguchi
Bunka-cho Film Week 2015
Naoya Hatakeyama is an acclaimed photographer, who had lost his mother and home in the 3.11 tsunami. The director stayed with him for two years to record the traces where the artist was heading.
Director: Yohei Hatakeyama
Bunka-cho Film Week 2015
College student Natsuko, who loves BL (boys' love), anime and games, and her childhood friend Rintaro go to Tokyo to save Miyu, their close friend, who is subjected to physical abuse by her boyfrie...
Director: Keiichi Kobayashi
Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award Film Screening and Symposium
Everlasting great acting by Alan Ladd and Jack Palance and the touching scene in the end…a Western masterpiece is reborn in digital remastered edition! Academy Awards winner of 1953 in Cinematograp...
Director: George Stevens
Japan Premiere of SHANE [Digital Remastred] Presented by STAR CHANNEL & SKY Perfect TV! Movie Team/Japanese Premiere
The 5th Japan Student Film Festival
”GYRØ” Japan｜2014｜7min
The everyday life of an elephant and his wife. Their life together with a certain distance repeats itself. The traces of the passing time cover the fam...
Director: ”GYRØ” MADOKA “Ketchup Kid” Patrick Vollrath “A Cat in the Rumor” Moeko Tanisaka “King of Fools” Yutaro Nakamura “Choices” Hosaki Tanaka “Why Did Komura Cry?” Ken Ninomiya, Keisuke Kondo, Yoshihiro Nagata
The 5th Japan Student Film Festival
