Chinese Herald News (contributing writer Zhu Yaozhong) The organizer of the 2022 Tokyo International Film Festival (the 35th Tokyo International Film Festival) has officially announced the opening and closing films of the festival. The opening film of
is the Japanese film "Suicide Note from the Shelter" (original name: ラーゲリより爱を込めて), starring Keiko Kitagawa , Kazuya Ninomiya, and Kazuya Ninomiya also plays her husband Yamamoto Hatake in the play , he was a soldier of the Kwantung Army. After Japan was defeated, he became a prisoner of war of the Soviet Red Army and was held in the cold Siberia for 11 years. Keiko Kitagawa played his wife, Shigeru Yamamoto. This weak woman firmly believed that she There is always a day when my husband comes home...
Stills from "The Will from the Asylum". The closing film of
is "Living" (Japanese title: 生きるLIVING) produced in the United Kingdom. The film pays tribute to Japanese director Akira Kurosawa , and is a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1952 classic "Desire to Live", its original work Partly inspired by Leo Tolstoy's novella "The Death of Ivan Ilyich". The new film "Living" is set in London in 1952 after World War II, and depicts Bill Nair's bureaucrat facing a deadly disease...
"Living" stills It will be held in Tokyo from 24th to November 2nd. It is reported that the organizing committee of the film festival will hold a press conference on the afternoon of September 21st to officially announce the list of shortlisted films for the competition unit (Golden Kylin Award) and other units and departments.
currently announced that two films have been selected for the ガラ・セレクション section (that is, the special screening section) of this film festival: Toda Erikaka , Nagano Maiyu The Japanese film "Motherhood" (Motherhood); Ireland/UK/ "The Banshees of Inisherin" (The Banshees of Inisherin).
(the picture in this article is provided by the film festival organizer)