The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is the only international film festival in Japan that has been recognized by the International Film Producers Association (FIAPF) and is on a par with famous film festivals such as Cannes, Venice, and Berlin. It is committed to discovering outstanding Asian and international films and providing a broader platform for young filmmakers to display.
In 1985, the 1st Tokyo International Film Festival kicked off Japan's large-scale film festival in Shibuya, a "movie district" with 16 movie theaters, and Akira Kurosawa's work "Chaos", which was screened during the festival, with a total of 140 works screened during the festival. Since 2014, TIFF has worked hand-in-hand with international film festivals in Busan, Hong Kong, Shanghai and other places to lay the groundwork for the revitalization of Asian cinema.
The Tokyo International Film Festival has always been a blessed destination for Chinese-language films. Chinese filmmakers and Chinese films have been active on the stage of the Tokyo Film Festival since the late 1980s, and many well-known filmmakers such as Wu Tianming, Xie Jin, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Liu Xiaoqing and many others have served as members of the jury of the Tokyo Film Festival, and Gong Li, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige have also served as the chairman of the festival jury in 2003, 2005 and 2013 respectively.
At last year's 33rd Film Festival, among the 32 shortlisted works of "Tokyo Premiere 2020", a total of 4 Films by Chinese directors were shortlisted, namely "Love Song 1980" directed by Mei Feng and starring Li Xian and Chunxia; "Rabbit Violence" directed by Shen Yu and starring Wan Qian, Huang Jue and Li Gengxi; "Lifeless" directed by Shi Meng and starring Hou Yingjue and Jiang Xuxuan, and "Sauce Dog" directed by Zhang Zhiwei and starring He Yewen.
A selection of shortlisted and award-winning films
2019 Best Artistic Contribution Award: Under the White Clouds
Director: Wang Rui
The film tells the story of an ordinary Mongolian herdsman couple who have a certain life dilemma caused by different life pursuits. Wife Sarula believes that the good life is to rest with her husband at sunrise and sunset on the grassland, while the husband Chao Ketu is tired of the boring and monotonous shepherd life, he thinks that the good life is not in the grassland but in the distance, hiding from his wife again and again...
Best Picture in the Asia Future Section 2019: "Summer Night Rider"
Director: Especially
In the summer of 1997, at the age of eight, after the loss of his grandmother's bicycle, in the face of the helplessness of the adults, he was angry, and after a ridiculous plan to catch thieves, he finally successfully resolved a storm through the assistance of neighbors.
Best Artistic Contribution Award 2016: "No Problem"
Director: Mei Feng
In Chongqing, a large rear in the 1940s, a Shuhua farm with rich products but always losing money was staged between two farm directors, a battle between the old and new farm directors. The film, based on Lao She's novel, seems to narrate a timeless human fable.
2017 Best Actor Award and Best Artistic Contribution: "Blizzard is Coming"
Director: Dong Yue
The film tells the story of Yu Guowei, a factory security section officer known as "Yu Shen Detective" in 1997, who did everything in his power to track down a serial murder case in order to enter the establishment and become a real policeman.
2003 Best Film in the Main Competition Section: "Warm"
Director: Huo Jianqi
The film tells a very young, very subtle love story, Lin Jinghe, who works in Beijing, takes a leave of absence to return to his rural hometown that he has not returned to for 10 years, and he meets his former first love Nuan at the bridgehead of his hometown, which opens a memory between him and his former lover Nuan.
1994 Best Film in the Main Competition Section: "The Contrarian Son of Heaven"
Director: Yan Hao
The film is based on Zhang Chenggong's reportage "Crossing in the Bitter Sea", which tells the story of Feng Ying, a rural woman who poisoned her husband, and her son Guan Jian, who denounced her mother's crimes when she grew up.
1993 Best Film in the Main Competition Section: "Blue Kite"
Director: Tian Zhuangzhuang
The film tells the story of the political movements of the People's Republic of China from 1953 to 1967.
1987 Best Film in the Main Competition Section: "The Old Well"
Director: Wu Tianming
The film tells the story of Qiao Ying, a rural girl, and Sun Wangquan, a young man from the same village, who have a common ambition to yearn for the world outside the mountains, but it is not what anyone wants.
2021 Registration Period and Requirements
The 34th Tokyo International Film Festival is scheduled to take place from October 30 to November 8, 2021
Seizure time
Regular deadline: July 16, 2021
Awards
Main competition unit
Tokyo Grand Prize (Golden Kirin Award)
Special Jury Prize
Best Director Award
Best Actor Award
Award for Best Actress
Best Artistic Contribution Award
Audience Award
The Lifetime Achievement Award is named after Akira Kurosawa
Asian winds
Asia-Middle East Best Film Award
Asian Film Awards - Special Attention
Tableting rules
*Must be a movie completed after January 1, 2021.
*Must be held at TIFF for Japanese premieres, world and international premieres are preferred.
* Movies purchased on the Internet, TV (including IPTV) or in-flight movies or movies that have been commercially distributed on DVD, VOD or any other format are not eligible.
*Short films are not eligible. Must be more than 60 minutes long (including cartoons, documentaries).
*Screening materials should be in digital format (high definition) with English subtitles.