Centrepiece Highlight
World Premiere of “Dance With Me”
Director Shinobu Yaguchi, Lead Actress Ayaka Miyoshi in attendance
Opening Night
North American Premiere of Masayuki Suzuki’s mystery thriller, “Masquerade Hotel“
Special Guests:
Star of “Love’s Twisting Path” – Mikako Tabe
Director of award-winning “Born Bone Born” – Comedian Toshiyuki Teruya “Gori”
Director Tatsushi Omori – “When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes” and “Every Day a Good Day”
Star of “The Gambler’s Odyssey 2020” – Takumi Saitoh
The samurai, of the cinematic variety, are set to descend on Toronto this summer. They are joined by reluctant sake brewers, yakuza assassins, tea ceremony sages, deadly mahjong-playing robots, dashing hotel detectives, and calculating masters of “corporate kabuki”.
Now in its eighth year, the 2019 Toronto Japanese Film Festival brings Toronto audiences 28 of the finest contemporary Japanese films recognized for excellence by Japanese audiences and critics, international film festival audiences and the Japanese Film Academy.
World Premiere of “Dance With Me”
Director Shinobu Yaguchi, Lead Actress Ayaka Miyoshi in attendance
Opening Night
North American Premiere of Masayuki Suzuki’s mystery thriller, “Masquerade Hotel“
Special Guests:
Star of “Love’s Twisting Path” – Mikako Tabe
Director of award-winning “Born Bone Born” – Comedian Toshiyuki Teruya “Gori”
Director Tatsushi Omori – “When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes” and “Every Day a Good Day”
Star of “The Gambler’s Odyssey 2020” – Takumi Saitoh
The samurai, of the cinematic variety, are set to descend on Toronto this summer. They are joined by reluctant sake brewers, yakuza assassins, tea ceremony sages, deadly mahjong-playing robots, dashing hotel detectives, and calculating masters of “corporate kabuki”.
Now in its eighth year, the 2019 Toronto Japanese Film Festival brings Toronto audiences 28 of the finest contemporary Japanese films recognized for excellence by Japanese audiences and critics, international film festival audiences and the Japanese Film Academy.
- 5/22/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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