Japan’s Tokyo Film Festival (TIFF) has revealed the official poster for its 2023 edition, which pays tribute to the country’s seminal filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu on the 120th anniversary of his birth. Check out the full poster below.
The poster was designed as a visual tribute to Ozu’s 1952 pic Tokyo Story and features actor-filmmaker Eiji Okuda and his daughter, filmmaker Momoko Ando, representing the relationship between Ryu Chishu and Hara Setsuko in Ozu’s film.
The resulting image was shot on the rooftop garden of the Kitte Marunouchi Building, with Tokyo station’s domes in the background. The visuals were created by Junko Koshino, a Japanese fashion designer who has worked on TIFF’s visuals since 2021. The posters will be displayed at theaters from August 18. This year, Momoko has also been appointed to the ceremonial role of TIFF festival navigator, formerly known as festival ambassador. Beginning as a filmmaker, Momoko now also operates an arthouse cinema in Kochi, southwestern Japan.
Discussing her new role, Momoko said: “Cinema can embody any story. Cinema can change the world. The world can be changed by films. I honestly believe that is true. Films reflect our thoughts. They project invisible winds, tiny creatures, and all life. They memorize and record the past and future in our minds. Now in 2023, what will we gaze at, and where will we be led? Film festivals are the compass of the world. Now, here, from Tokyo.”
Running October 23 — November 1, TIFF will host a large-scale tribute to Ozu throughout its program. Specific details about the festival’s Ozu tribute have yet to be announced.
The 36th TIFF opening ceremony will take place at the Tokyo Takarazuka Theater, as it did last year, while the closing ceremony will be held at Toho Cinemas Hibiya. In addition to three large theaters, Marunouchi Toei, Marunouchi Piccadilly, and Toho Cinemas Hibiya, Hulic Hall Tokyo will join as a new screening venue, along with TIFF’s regular theaters, Kadokawa Cinema Yurakucho, Cine Switch Ginza, Humantrust Cinema Yurakucho and Toho Cinemas Chanter.
The poster was designed as a visual tribute to Ozu’s 1952 pic Tokyo Story and features actor-filmmaker Eiji Okuda and his daughter, filmmaker Momoko Ando, representing the relationship between Ryu Chishu and Hara Setsuko in Ozu’s film.
The resulting image was shot on the rooftop garden of the Kitte Marunouchi Building, with Tokyo station’s domes in the background. The visuals were created by Junko Koshino, a Japanese fashion designer who has worked on TIFF’s visuals since 2021. The posters will be displayed at theaters from August 18. This year, Momoko has also been appointed to the ceremonial role of TIFF festival navigator, formerly known as festival ambassador. Beginning as a filmmaker, Momoko now also operates an arthouse cinema in Kochi, southwestern Japan.
Discussing her new role, Momoko said: “Cinema can embody any story. Cinema can change the world. The world can be changed by films. I honestly believe that is true. Films reflect our thoughts. They project invisible winds, tiny creatures, and all life. They memorize and record the past and future in our minds. Now in 2023, what will we gaze at, and where will we be led? Film festivals are the compass of the world. Now, here, from Tokyo.”
Running October 23 — November 1, TIFF will host a large-scale tribute to Ozu throughout its program. Specific details about the festival’s Ozu tribute have yet to be announced.
The 36th TIFF opening ceremony will take place at the Tokyo Takarazuka Theater, as it did last year, while the closing ceremony will be held at Toho Cinemas Hibiya. In addition to three large theaters, Marunouchi Toei, Marunouchi Piccadilly, and Toho Cinemas Hibiya, Hulic Hall Tokyo will join as a new screening venue, along with TIFF’s regular theaters, Kadokawa Cinema Yurakucho, Cine Switch Ginza, Humantrust Cinema Yurakucho and Toho Cinemas Chanter.
- 8/17/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Love & PeaceIn celebration of the 10th anniversary of the festival Japan Cuts, the biggest North American festival of Japanese film, Mubi has selected three films that have been part of the lineup of recent editions: 0.5mm (Momoko Andô) and The Horses of Fukushima (Yoju Matsubayashi) from the 2014 festival and Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn (Juichiro Yamasaki), which was last year’s closing film.The festival runs from the 14th to the 24th of July at the Japan Society in New York. Coincidently, among the films that’ll play in this milestone event, three are related to the magnificent, strange and eclectic director Sion Sono, but they’re also related to the three films that Mubi will showcase in the United States during and after the festival.Love & Peace might go down, in the near future, as Sion Sono’s masterpiece, the film that most represents the personal style as well...
- 7/15/2016
- MUBI
A lesbian love story from Japan. By Xan Brooks
Kakera is an off-kilter lesbian love story, laid out in crisp, formal compositions. Riko (Eriko Nakamura) is a self-possessed prosthetics engineer who likes girls "because they feel better"; Haru (Hikari Mitsushima) the wide-eyed student who submits to her attentions. Their ensuing romance is woozy and languid and, like many romances, drags on a shade beyond its natural lifespan. Even so, writer-director Momoko Andô conjures up a lovely sense of everyday strangeness - so much so that when Riko throws up a water bottle that turns into an owl, I found myself nodding along as though this were the most natural thing in the world.
Rating: 3/5
DramaWorld cinemaXan Brooks
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Kakera is an off-kilter lesbian love story, laid out in crisp, formal compositions. Riko (Eriko Nakamura) is a self-possessed prosthetics engineer who likes girls "because they feel better"; Haru (Hikari Mitsushima) the wide-eyed student who submits to her attentions. Their ensuing romance is woozy and languid and, like many romances, drags on a shade beyond its natural lifespan. Even so, writer-director Momoko Andô conjures up a lovely sense of everyday strangeness - so much so that when Riko throws up a water bottle that turns into an owl, I found myself nodding along as though this were the most natural thing in the world.
Rating: 3/5
DramaWorld cinemaXan Brooks
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- 4/1/2010
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
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