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Variety AsiaAsiaIsabelle Huppert Vampire Film ‘The Blood Countess’ Was Cut Against Director’s Wishes, Ulrike Ottinger Tells Tokyo Event Isabelle Huppert vampire film “The Blood Countess” lost as much as 20 minutes against the wishes of its director, Ulrike Ottinger, the veteran German filmmaker said at the Tokyo International Film…

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Viet Nam News — Life & StyleVietnamViệt Nam pitches archives, co-production, incentives at Tokyo film festival Vietnamese Ambassador Phạm Quang Hiếu said cinema can add cultural and human depth to the Việt Nam-Japan Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.

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Le Monde — CinémaFranceA Tokyo, le Festival international du film affiche ses ambitions culturelles et financières La 39ᵉ édition de l’événement a reflété les différentes facettes de la production cinématographique japonaise, et, parmi elles, quelques thèmes récurrents : la crise du modèle familial ou encore la…

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The Film StageCommonality and Differences: Kenji Ishizaka on Asian Future at the Tokyo International Film Festival The closer one looks at the actual, tangible world of international cinema, the more one realizes they have no coherent idea of what is going on.

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IndieWire‘Earthlings in Love’ Review: A Sentimental Sci-fi Journey Makes the Leap from TikTok to the Tokyo International Film Festival “One Cut of the Dead” director Shinichiro Ueda helms a project that’s better than a “vertical drama” has any right to be.

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Variety AsiaAsiaTokyo’s First Animated Competition Title ‘Magic Atlas’ Was Sun Xun’s ‘All-In Moment’ Chinese artist and filmmaker Sun Xun never expected “Magic Atlas” to become the first animated feature selected for the Tokyo International Film Festival’s competition.

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Variety AsiaAsiaShahrbanoo Sadat and Jelena Maksimović Hit Back at Discrimination in Film Funding at Tokyo Festival Talk A lack of funding, and ignorance in the institutions that control it, keeps women at an inherent disadvantage in the film industry, Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat said at a Tokyo International Film…

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FilmkrantNetherlandsImagine 2026: Kiyoshi Kurosawa In de sluimerende films van Kiyoshi Kurosawa, dit jaar eregast op Imagine Fantastic Film Festival, wordt de innerlijke onrust van de hoofdpersonages steevast beklemtoond door de plaats van handeling…

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Asian Horror HubAsiaKiyoshi Kurosawa and Takashi Shimizu Among Six Directors Adapting Japanese Horror Series Night Tales Club for Disney+

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Senses of CinemaNakahira, Kō

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Eureka EntertainmentUKEureka! announces its February 2026 line-up, showcasing landmark samurai epic and acclaimed Holocaust drama Eureka! has unveiled its February slate for The Masters of Cinema Series, bringing together two extraordinary cinematic achievements: a monumental five-film samurai saga from Toei and one of the most…

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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