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Yoshihiko Yatabe, Director of the 27th TIFF, said, “There will be many excellent animated films at the festival. We hope to contribute to promoting Japanese animation around the world.” At this year’s festival, selected films by the talented filmmaker Hideaki Anno will be screened in a single session. Anno is best known for his science fiction animated series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which became a phenomenon in Japan in the 1990s. He has been compared to the legendary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, who won an Oscar for Spirited Away but retired last year.
Highlights of the Tokyo Film Festival also include several 3D short films directed by Shigeru Miyamoto, a long-time executive at Nintendo. This year, 15 films, selected from approximately 1,300 submissions worldwide, are competing in the main category. In addition, the festival has a competition category for young directors from Asia and the Middle East. The festival will also screen films from China, South Korea, Spain, and Latin America.
The chairman of the jury for the 27th TIFF is American director James Gunn. The festival will open with a screening of the American film Big Hero 6 and close with Paradise by Japanese director Takashi Yamazaki.
