Tokyo Takeaways: Five Themes From the Film Festival and Market
variety.comTokyo International Film Festival and its accompanying TIFFCOM industry event might have been forgiven for being a little soggy.
But spirits were rarely dampened. And, as the rains eased off at the festival’s midpoint, a handful of largely positive themes had been washed clear.
The Tokyo festival represents a surprising springboard for Chinese films to make their international festival comeback – Chinese and Japanese political relations remain testy at best – but for the second year in a row there were three mainland Chinese indie pics in Tokyo’s main competition.
Add in “Papa,” a divisive Hong Kong drama that had been offered to Cannes and Venice, but was turned down, and a Taiwan-Japan co-production and the Chinese influences were hard to escape.
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