2009.10.16[Special Contents]
Competition Guide: Snowfall in Taipei - Adolescece drama directed by Huo Jianqi who aspires to win his second Grand Prix.
Masterpieces of the world compete for the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix in the Competition section. PD, Yoshi Yatabe who selected 15 finals for competition out of 743 films from 81 countries and regions will showcase the main features in this web series.
A popular pop singer who lost her voice before the press release of her new song disappears. She goes into hiding in downtown Taipei and meets a young man who she begins to share her feelings with.
Snowfall in Taipei is a long awaited new film by Huo Jianqi who picked up the awards of world film festivals with Postmen in the Mountains. Nuan was awarded with Tokyo International Film Festival, Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix.
2009.10.16[Special Contents]
Competition Guide: Road, Movie - The film with never ending love for cinema and absolute visual beauty that be daze its viewers.
Masterpieces of the world compete for the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix in the Competition section. PD, Yoshi Yatabe who selected 15 finals for competition out of 743 films from 81 countries and regions will showcase the main features in this web series.
A young man, who grew tired of his family business, heads out for a journey to cross a desert. He rents a transport truck for a mobile movie theater that is loaded with old projector and films.
With such scenes like the film screening during the journey, meeting and parting with the funny and peculiar comrades – Road, Movie is written with a whole lot of love for cinema.
2009.10.16[Special Contents]
Competition Guide: Rabia - A Spanish film that depicts the most fiery love story within the 15 Competition titles.
Masterpieces of the world compete for the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix in the Competition section. PD, Yoshi Yatabe who selected 15 finals for competition out of 743 films from 81 countries and regions will showcase the main features in this web series.
A Spanish immigrant construction worker commits a murder. He chooses to hide in the attic of a mansion that his girl friend works as a housemaid. Not being able to reveal himself to her, his feelings begin to build up…
2009.10.16[Special Contents]
Competition Guide: Optical Illusions - Ensemble Cast with satire and humor that gives you the cinematic pleasure.
Masterpieces of the world compete for the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix in the Competition section. PD, Yoshi Yatabe who selected 15 finals for competition out of 743 films from 81 countries and regions will showcase the main features in this web series.
The Ensemble Cast that unfolds in the shopping mall of the suburban city in southern Chile. The blind ex-ski racer, housewife with shoplifting habit and a security guard who falls in love with the housewife. The film blows a whistle at the modern society with power of satire and humor by portraying many different lives that crosses each other.
2009.10.16[Special Contents]
Competition Guide: Manila Skies - The well-deserved new film by the Director, Raymond Red of the independent film industry in the Philippines.
Masterpieces of the world compete for the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix in the Competition section. PD, Yoshi Yatabe who selected 15 finals for competition out of 743 films from 81 countries and regions will showcase the main features in this web series.
Young man leaves the country side to metropolitan city of Manila seeking for a rich life but he loses his job for an absurd reason and joins a gang in agony but his life begins to fall in pieces and he finally makes a big decision. The film drives a knife through the absurdity of Philippines society.
2009.10.16[Special Contents]
Competition Guide: Heaven Eternal, Earth Everlasting – Apprehending a self-identity in a rapidly developing country.
Masterpieces of the world compete for the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix in the Competition section. PD, Yoshi Yatabe who selected 15 finals for competition out of 743 films from 81 countries and regions will showcase the main features in this web series.
How does the precocious female director who grew up with the rapid development of the country apprehend her own identity?
This is a debut feature film by Li Fangfang, a Chinese female film director and a best seller novelist at the age of 16 years old.
The film takes place in China during the early 1990’s thru Beijing Olympics. The film depicts the story about the growth of a young girl, who lost her parents but makes a great effort at work and romance. Director Li Fangfang creates a film with sensibility of a new generation.
2009.10.16[Special Contents]
Competition Guide: Eight Times Up - “Circumstances are saddening but it somehow makes me feel compelled to laugh.”
Masterpieces of the world compete for the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix in the Competition section. PD, Yoshi Yatabe who selected 15 finals for competition out of 743 films from 81 countries and regions will showcase the main features in this web series.
A divorced woman fails to get a new job and gets thrown out of the apartment and becomes a homeless. She begins to live in the woods with a man in a similar situation.
Eight times up literally means seven failures and then a success.
The film depicts a character, who continues to overcome hardship even if she fails many times, with beautiful visual portrayal.
2009.10.16[Special Contents]
Competition Guide: Eastern Play - Alcohol, violence, youngster and his elder brother…resurrection of souls are brilliantly depicted in this film!
Masterpieces of the world compete for the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix in the Competition section. PD, Yoshi Yatabe who selected 15 finals for competition out of 743 films from 81 countries and regions will showcase the main features in this web series.
The young brother who hangs around with neo-Nazi and elder brother who’s addicted to alcohol; the film, Eastern Plays, brilliantly depicts the lonely souls at the mercy of racial discrimination and violence.
2009.10.16[Special Contents]
Competition Guide: The Dark House – Climax that made the programming director cry out in shock!
Masterpieces of the world compete for the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix in the Competition section. PD, Yoshi Yatabe who selected 15 finals for competition out of 743 films from 81 countries and regions will showcase the main features in this web series.
The Dark House is a criminal psychology drama that focuses on the murder case which happened in the small town of Poland.
The film draws the viewers to the chaotic world with black humor and shocking depiction.
2009.10.16[Special Contents]
Competition Guide: ACACIA – "I felt the make of masterpiece, few shots past the opening scene!"
Masterpieces of the world compete for the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix in the Competition section. PD, Yoshi Yatabe who selected 15 finals for competition out of 743 films from 81 countries and regions will showcase the main features in this web series.
ACACIA is the only Japanese film entry in the Competition section and will be a first film in six years for Director, Jinsei Tsuji.
Not only did Antonio Inoki show his strong sense of presence, but also the ensemble of cinematography, music, acting and directing in the film was wonderfully done.
