Tokyo International Film Festival opens with Sukiyaki as market projects and growth targets unveiled

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The 39th Tokyo International Film Festival opened with Zeze Takahisa's Sukiyaki, about the 1963 global hit song. TIFFCOM sold out exhibition space, and its chief said Japan must adopt Hollywood's distribution model. Several projects were unveiled at the Tokyo Gap-Financing Market, and Academy leaders spoke about AI and international feature rules.

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Oscars Will ‘Always’ Reward Human Excellence in AI Era, Academy Chiefs Say as They Leave Door Open to International Feature Rule Tweaks (EXCLUSIVE) Variety
Tokyo Opener ‘Sukiyaki’ Director Zeze Takahisa on the Protest Roots of a Global Japanese Pop Hit: ‘The Culture Used to Be Wide Open – Now It’s Become Narrower’ Variety
Horror Film ‘The Land of Jinn’ Is First Indonesia-Kyrgyzstan Co-Production, Unveiled at Tokyo Gap-Financing Market Variety
Ancestral Memory Meets AI in Himalayan Drama ‘Shirjara: Song of Grandmother’ at Tokyo Gap-Financing Market Variety
Punk Band Guitar Wolf Rocks Back Into Takeuchi Tetsuro’s ‘Wild Zero Overdrive’ at Tokyo Gap-Financing Market Variety
Acrobatic Pastor’s Secret Obsession Drives Boo Junfeng’s ‘Trinity’ at Tokyo Gap-Financing Market Variety
Japanese Producers Drive Tokyo Market Growth as Exhibition Space Sells Out Variety
Japan Must Follow Hollywood’s Distribution Playbook, Says Tokyo Market Chief Shiina Yasushi, Who Eyes Major Expansion by 2030 Variety

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