2009.10.16[Updates]
Publication of TIFF Times will be circulated starting 17th (Sat).
Daily informations of screening title and event information as well as columns about the films and interview with the Directors will be introduced using creative angles and have considerably improved compared to the issues passed out last year.
The interview coverage are especially work of such excellence that we were unable to present it all in limited space of the pages! (We plan to present the coverage that didn’t make the page on the TIFF official web site).
Moreover! Cartoon artist, Yoriko Hoshi known for her best seller web comic, “Kyo no Nekomura-san”, will publish Tokyo Eiga (literally, Tokyo Films) on TIFF Times.
Reading TIFF Times will allow you to enjoy films and events with greater interests. We urge you to pick it up at the venue for TIFF insight..
TIFF Times will be circulated at
Roppongi Hills 66 Plaza
TOHO Cinemas Roppongi Hills
Cinemart Roppongi
and other locations related to TIFF
2009.10.16[Updates]
Previews of COLORUM, Japan, The Tree Lover and SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda have newly arrived.
Also, we've switched preview of SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda with its longer version.
Please check the previews by all means as a reference for choosing the film title of your choice at TIFF.
■Competition
ACACIA
The Dark House
Heaven Eternal, Earth Everlasting
Manila Skies
Optical Illusions
Southern District
Staten Island
Stories
The Trotsky
■Special Screenings
Oceans
AVATAR Special Presentation
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
REC2
SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK
Yona Yona Penguin
MY RAINY DAYS
Chasing My Girl
Feel the Wind
Go Find a Psychic!
Drag Me To Hell
It's on me
E.YAZAWA ROCK
I Give My First Love to You
Sideways
PUSH
ZERO FOCUS
SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda 10/15 UP
THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN
UP
■Winds of Asia - Middle East
Like You Know it All
A Brand New Life
Chengdu, I Love You 10/11 UP
Wheat
Kung Fu Cyborg : Metallic Attraction
Taipei 24H
Yang Yang
At the End of Daybreak
The Blue Mansion
Best of Times
COLORUM 10/15 UP
I Saw the Sun 10/11 UP
Jeonju Digital Project 2009: Visitors
Talentime + Yasmin's TVCM works
The Convert
Night and Fog
■Japanese Eyes
OUR BRIEF ETERNITY
Jungle-House Three-Farts / Sanpei Hayashiya
The Night of Whirlwind Restaurant
Palm of the Hand Stories
TOCHKA
If Blessed
LIVE TAPE
■WORLD CINEMA
A Single Man
The King of Escape
Japan 10/15 UP
■natural TIFF supported by TOYOTA
Bird without Borders - Black-Faced Spoonbill
The Mermaid and the Diver
Oil Rocks - City Above The Sea
The Tree Lover 10/11 UP
2009.10.16[Event Information]
Green Carpet will return again as the Opening Event of the year!!
Announcement on Opening Event, the Green Carpet.
Date: October 17th, 2009 (Sat) 16:00 - 17:30 (tentative)
Venue: ROPPONGI KEYAKIZAKA DORI
Roppongi Hills Arena / TIFFpark
※ Free admission (Roppongi Hills Arena / TIFFpark area – Viewing by standing only.)
Please note that the Green Carpet walk through the ROPPONGI KEYAKIZAKA DORI will be postponed in case of rain.
The information will be notified through our official web site in case of the postponement.
※ We kindly as you to refrain from entering the Roppongi Hills Arena / TIFFpark grandstand without the invitation.
Date: October 17th, 2009 (Sat) 16:00 - 17:30 (tentative)
Venue: ROPPONGI KEYAKIZAKA DORI
Roppongi Hills Arena / TIFFpark
※ Free admission (Roppongi Hills Arena / TIFFpark area – Viewing by standing only.)
Please note that the Green Carpet walk through the ROPPONGI KEYAKIZAKA DORI will be postponed in case of rain.
The information will be notified through our official web site in case of the postponement.
※ We kindly as you to refrain from entering the Roppongi Hills Arena / TIFFpark grandstand without the invitation.
Which stars will you hope to see this year! ?
2009.10.16[Special Contents]
Competition Guide: The Trotsky – “Bring about a revolution in High School!” The Trotsky is a delightful adolescence comedy film!
Programming Director, Yoshi Yatabe’s Competition Guide
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 Trotsky is about a high school student who believes himself to be the reincarnation of Russian revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, and tries to raise a revolution in the high school that he attends, He soon runs into obstacles and becomes treated like a nutcase…
This film is a straightforward and delightful adolescence comedy about his days of endeavor!
2009.10.16[Special Contents]
Competition Guide:Ten Winters - A couple within reoccurring scenery of winter, would their love unfold...
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.
What will be the outcome of the love affair between a young man and his girl friend who departed for Leningrad to study Russian Literature. The hidden scenic charms of Venice is one of the highlights of this love story.
2009.10.16[Special Contents]
Competition Guide: Southern District - Camera pans right and further to the right, to show us the reverse side of the happiness.
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.
Through a wealthy Caucasian family and their servants live in the exclusive residential area; the Southern District exposes the dark parts hidden in their lives that seems to look happy on the surface with unique camera works which is the real leading player of this film.
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.
