The Tokyo International Film Festival, which plans to forge ahead with a physical edition in late October, will showcase the work of rising Japanese arthouse director Koji Fukada.
Fukada will be this year's director in focus of the festival's Japan Now section, which will include a gala selection of his films, ranging from his debut feature, Human Comedy in Tokyo(2008), to his much anticipated latest work, The Real Thing (2020).
International cineastes have been tracking Fukada's work ever since his black comedy Hospitalité won the Tokyo's festival's best picture award in the Japanese Eyes section in 2010.
The Hollywood Reporter's critic described it asa "droll and intelligent film" that takes a "strange and sly dig at Japanese xenophobia.".
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