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‘Godzilla,’ Record Anime Boom and a Global Co-Production Hunt: Takeaways From the Tokyo Film Festival and Market

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‘Godzilla,’ Record Anime Boom and a Global Co-Production Hunt: Takeaways From the Tokyo Film Festival and Market
Nov 5, 2026 4:59am PT ‘Godzilla,’ Record Anime Boom and a Global Co-Production Hunt: Takeaways From the Tokyo Film Festival and Market

By Naman Ramachandran, Mark Schilling, Lin Ying-Hsuan, Kambole Campbell Add us as a Google Preferred Source Tokyo displacement fund Tokyo International Film Festival

The 39th Tokyo International Film Festival wrapped this week, a few days after its content market TIFFCOM, with Japan’s government talking up a JPY20 trillion ($126.6 billion) content export target, and the anime industry arriving with numbers to back it up.

The festival ran Oct. 26–Nov. 4, with TIFFCOM held Oct. 28–30 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center in Hamamatsucho. Across both, the talk kept returning to who owns Japanese IP, who pays to develop it and how far producers will travel to find partners. Here are the key takeaways.

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