By Mark Schilling, Lin Ying-Hsuan, Naman Ramachandran Add us as a Google Preferred Source
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Tokyo International Film Festival The 39th Tokyo International Film Festival opened Monday with a rain-soaked red carpet and a ceremony at Hulic Hall, where Japan’s government used the occasion to restate its goal of selling JPY20 trillion ($133 billion) worth of Japanese content overseas by 2033.
The festival received 1,892 film submissions from 112 countries and regions this year. It opened with “Sukiyaki,” which tells how the title tune was written and went on to top the U.S. Billboard chart in 1963. Director Zeze Takahisa took the stage with Okada Junichi, who plays composer Nakamura Hachidai, Matsuzaka Tori, who plays lyricist Ei Rokusuke, and Seino Nana, who plays Nakamura Junko.
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