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91 articles available in total starting from 19/06/2007. Last article published on 15/10/2025.

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Toshiyuki Hasegawa • Programming director of Skip City International D-Cinema Festival

Interview: Toshiyuki Hasegawa • Programming director of Skip City International D-Cinema Festival

"The requirement for the international competition section is that they are only Japanese premieres"

Toshiyuki Hasegawa talks about the structure of the festival programme, how they finance the events and how they designed the marketing strategies to attract audiences  

14/12/2022 | Euro Film Fest

Kōji Fukada • Director of Love Life

Interview: Kōji Fukada • Director of Love Life

“To me, a person is basically lonely, despite family or religion or any other community”

VENICE 2022: While dealing with the subject of loneliness, the Japanese writer-director inflicts cruelty on his characters, but also shows them some hope and love  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Review: Love Life

Review: Love Life

VENICE 2022: Rising Japanese maestro Kôji Fukada steps up to his first major festival competition slot with this neatly structured tale of intersecting marriages  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka • Directors of Stonewalling

Interview: Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka • Directors of Stonewalling

"We decided to observe the behaviour, the emotions and the changes in a woman during the months she was pregnant"

VENICE 2022: The Chinese-Japanese duo talk about their film, starring a young woman who, after she finds out she's pregnant, decides to take her destiny into her own hands  

02/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Chie Hayakawa • Director of Plan 75

Interview: Chie Hayakawa • Director of Plan 75

"There is a feeling of hatred among young people towards elderly in Japanese society, because they think they have to pay for them and won’t get anything back"

CANNES 2022: The Japanese director discusses her first feature, a film of great acuity about the topic of euthanasia which received a Special Mention from the Caméra d'Or jury  

30/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Plan 75

Review: Plan 75

CANNES 2022: Produced by Japan, France and the Philippines, Chie Hayakawa's first feature film deals with the delicate subject of euthanasia in a subtle and slightly futuristic way  

20/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Final Cut

Review: Final Cut

CANNES 2022: Michel Hazanavicius offers up a hilarious and high cinephile-value diversion in the form of a multidimensional comedy unfolding on the set of a zombie film  

17/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Out of Competition

Masako Kudo • Distributor, Child Film

Interview: Masako Kudo • Distributor, Child Film

“In Japan, family-orientated animation films from foreign countries are quite complicated to distribute”

The Japanese distributor talked through Child Film’s efforts to bring European arthouse animated films to the country and how the local audience has changed over the last two years  

16/03/2022 | Cartoon 2022 | Cartoon Movie

Review: Small, Slow but Steady

Review: Small, Slow but Steady

BERLINALE 2022: In co-production with France, Japan’s Shô Miyake carves out a seemingly modest yet subtle and masterful movie about a young, deaf female boxer with a big heart  

14/02/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Encounters

Review: Yamabuki

Review: Yamabuki

Tough lives intersect, and unconvincing plot lines pile up, in Juichiro Yamasaki’s tale of small-town Japanese life  

07/02/2022 | IFFR 2022 | Tiger Competition

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