by Chris MaGee
I'm excited about TIFF this year. All of us here at the Pow-Wow are engaged in good natured fights to the death to figure who's going to get you reviews of Takeshi Kitano's "Achilles and the Tortoise", Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Tokyo Sonata" and Hirokazu Koreeda's "Still Walking". Big directors generate big buzz. That being said my heart leapt into my throat today when I browsed through the dozen Japanese titles that the programmers of the Montreal World Film Festival have assembled for this year's fest. Check out some of these titles: Koki Mitani's blockbuster mistaken identity comedy "The Magic Hour", "Sakuran" screenwriter Yuki Tanada's "One Million Yen Girl" staring Yu Aoi, "Yume no Manimani" directed by 90 year-old Takeo Kimura, the long-time art director for Seijun Suzuki, Kenji Uchida's detective story "After School", special presentations of Akira Kurosawa's "Ikiru", Nagia Oshima's "The Ceremony" and Shohei Imamura's "Vengeance is Mine"... and there's more! Much more!
I'm more than grateful to TIFF for giving us Torontonians the chance to see the biggest names in Japanese cinema on a yearly basis (especially this year), but what I wouldn't give to have seen some of these lesser known films in the roster here. Montreal, you really do deserve the name of "World Film Festival" with this line-up.
To get the full list of Japanese films hitting Montreal between August 21st and September 1st head over to the WFF's official site here.
I'm excited about TIFF this year. All of us here at the Pow-Wow are engaged in good natured fights to the death to figure who's going to get you reviews of Takeshi Kitano's "Achilles and the Tortoise", Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Tokyo Sonata" and Hirokazu Koreeda's "Still Walking". Big directors generate big buzz. That being said my heart leapt into my throat today when I browsed through the dozen Japanese titles that the programmers of the Montreal World Film Festival have assembled for this year's fest. Check out some of these titles: Koki Mitani's blockbuster mistaken identity comedy "The Magic Hour", "Sakuran" screenwriter Yuki Tanada's "One Million Yen Girl" staring Yu Aoi, "Yume no Manimani" directed by 90 year-old Takeo Kimura, the long-time art director for Seijun Suzuki, Kenji Uchida's detective story "After School", special presentations of Akira Kurosawa's "Ikiru", Nagia Oshima's "The Ceremony" and Shohei Imamura's "Vengeance is Mine"... and there's more! Much more!
I'm more than grateful to TIFF for giving us Torontonians the chance to see the biggest names in Japanese cinema on a yearly basis (especially this year), but what I wouldn't give to have seen some of these lesser known films in the roster here. Montreal, you really do deserve the name of "World Film Festival" with this line-up.
To get the full list of Japanese films hitting Montreal between August 21st and September 1st head over to the WFF's official site here.
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