Tran Anh Hung, Truong Nghe Mou, and Leung Chiu Wai interact at Tokyo Film Festival

At the 2023 Tokyo Film Festival, Asia's master directors will interact, while legendary actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai will host a master class.

Director Zhang Yimou, director Chan Ying-hung, and actor Tony Leung will attend and have activities at the 2023 Tokyo Film Festival - Photo: Getty Images

The 36th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) (2023) will take place from October 23 to November 1 in Tokyo, Japan.

This year, the event series is expected to welcome 600 guests from the film industry, including many legendary faces and masters of world cinema.

Tran Anh Hung and Zhang Yimou exchange

Within the framework of the film festival, veteran Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda will continue to support the film festival by programming and organizing the Asia Lounge talk series.

This year, Asia Lounge will feature discussions and interactions with directors Zhang Yimou, Chen Yingxiong, Jia Zhangke, Gu Xiaogang, Yoji Yamada, Mouly Surya and Yang Yonghi.

Hirokazu Kore-eda - Japan's leading auteur film director today - Photo: TIFF

Asia Lounge is the name of the dialogue series that has lasted for more than a week at the Tokyo Film Festival in recent years. Every year, with the prestige of the film festival and filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda (who won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for Shoplifters ), Asia Lounge always invites famous names of world cinema to Japan for exchanges.

Specifically, French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung will interact with the public on October 24, on the occasion of his latest film, The Taste of Things , which has just been chosen by France to represent the country at the 2024 Oscars.

Zhang Yimou, the famous Chinese director, will interact with the public on October 25, on the occasion of the screening of his blockbuster Full River Red . The film earned 673.5 million USD when it was shown in theaters earlier this year.

Tony Leung Chiu Wai returns to film festival audiences

Asian cinema legend Tony Leung Chiu Wai will also hold a master class here.

On October 26, the Tokyo Film Festival will screen again the film 2046 by director Wong Kar-wai. The screening will be attended by the three main actors Tony Leung, Gong Li and Faye Wong. Afterwards, Tony Leung will interact with the public.

Image of the movie 2046 by Wong Kar-wai. The movie brings together Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, Faye Wong, Carina Lau... - Photo: IMDb

Recently, Tony Leung was duly honored with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. He also received praise from his veteran colleagues in the film industry, especially through an inspiring speech by director Ang Lee - who worked with him on Lust, Caution.

Showing many special movies of the year

The gala section of this year's Tokyo Film Festival also delighted the audience with famous works.

That is Poor Things by director Yorgos Lanthimos, which just won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. That is The Taste of Things by Tran Anh Hung, which just won the Best Director award at Cannes.

Poor Things, which won the Golden Lion at this year's Venice Film Festival, will also be screened in Tokyo - Photo: IMDb

That is Taika Waititi's football comedy Next Goal Wins , the Chinese blockbuster Full River Red by Zhang Yimou as mentioned above. In addition, The Movie Emperor - Andy Lau's new film and Godzilla Minus One - the 37th film about the monster Godzilla, will be shown as the closing films.

This year marks the 120th anniversary of the birth and 60th anniversary of the death of legendary Japanese director Ozu Yasujiro. TIFF is honoring him with a program called "Shoulders of Giants," including film screenings, talks and script readings.

This year, Vietnamese producer Tran Thi Bich Ngoc also joined the international film jury at TIFF.

She will work with filmmakers and actors such as Wim Wenders (famous German filmmaker, president of the jury), Albert Serra, Trieu Dao, Kunizane Mizue.

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