Osaka Asian Festival Sets ‘Yanagawa’ as Opening Film
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Yanagawa,” which this week won the top prize at the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas in France, has been set as the opening title of the 17th Osaka Asian Film Festival in Japan.
The festival, which runs as an in-person event, March 10-20, 2022 will close with multinational co-production “Miss Osaka.”Yanagawa, was directed by Korean-Chinese auteur Zhang Lu, and was filmed in China and Japan.
Telling a tale of search for East-Asian identity, the film is Zhang’s first mainly Chinese-language picture in the eleven years since “Dooman River.” It had its world premiere screening at Busan and was subsequently the opening film for the Pingyao International Film Festival.
It is expected to receive a Japanese theatrical release later this year, though a date has not yet been finalized. A unique Danish-Norwegian-Japanese co-production, directed by Daniel Dencik, “Miss Osaka” is a drama with mystery and thriller elements that emerge in a story where a young woman searching for an identity adopts one from someone else.
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