Tokyo International Film Festival

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Tokyo International Film FestivalJapanKishii Yukino Joins TIFF Teens Cine Club — Shares Her Thoughts on the Upcoming Program TIFF Teens Cine Club This year, TIFF will once again ho […]...

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Tokyo International Film FestivalJapan39th TIFF Announces Full Lineup, Heralds A New Era of Borderless Filmmaking From left: Ikeda, Mishima, Nakajima, and Yamamoto © […]...

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Tokyo International Film FestivalJapanDirectors O Mipo and Mohammad Rasoulof to Receive 39th TIFF Kurosawa Akira Award The 39th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is pl […]...

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Tokyo International Film FestivalJapanIsomura Hayato to Head Ethical Film Award Jury The TIFF Ethical Film Award was launched in 2023 in par […]...

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Tokyo International Film FestivalJapanGeneral Ticket Sales From Oct. 17 (Sat) 39th Tokyo International Film Festival General Ticket S […]...

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Tokyo International Film FestivalJapan39th TIFF Announces Mizoguchi Retrospective, Special Animation Symposium, TIFF Teens Cinema Workshop The 39th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), to b […]...

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Tokyo International Film FestivalJapan39th TIFF Announces Rolf de Heer as Jury President

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Tokyo International Film FestivalJapanCate Blanchett to Attend 39th TIFF for Displacement Film Fund Japan Premiere Photo by Tom Munro The Tokyo International Film […]...

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Tokyo International Film FestivalJapan39th TIFF Unveils Official Poster by O Mipo; Announces New Ticket Pricing, Crowdfunding 39th TIFF Crowdfunding Starts September 11 TIFF’s crowdfunding program*, which has broken funding records year by year and recorded a total of 25.46 million yen in 2025, will launch on September 11…

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Tokyo International Film FestivalJapan39th TIFF to Launch Three New Initiatives Promoting Japanese Cinema: Nippon Cinema Now Competitio […]...

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Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo