Tokyo International Film Festival

International Competition　

47 Ronin
Director : Kon Ichikawa
Cast : Ken Takakura / Kiichi Nakai / Rie Miyazawa

Like a Rolling Stone
Director : Tatsumi Kumashiro
Cast : Eiji Okuda / Eiko Nagashima / Reiko Takashima

Cold Water
Director : Olivier Assayas
Cast : Cyprien Fouquet / Virginie Ledoyen / Laszlo Szabo

The Road to Wellville
Director : Alan Parker
Cast : Anthony Hopkins / Bridget Fonda / Matthew Broderick

Blind Man's Buff
Director : Manoel de Oliveirā
Cast : Luis Miguel Cintra / Beatriz Batarda / Diego Dória

Johnny 100 Pesos
Director : Gustavo Graef Marino
Cast : Armando Araiza / Patricia Rlvera / Willy Semler

A Dangerous Woman
Director : Stephen Gyllenhaal
Cast : Debra Winger / Barbara Hershey / Gabriel Byrne

Back to Back, Face to Face
Director : Huang Jianxin
Cast : Niu Zhenhua / Lei Gesheng / Li Qiang

Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana
Director : Aki Kaurismäki
Cast : Kati Outinen / Matti Pellonpää / Kirsi Tykkyläinen

The Red Lotus Society
Director : Stan Lai
Cast : Yin Zhaode / Chen Wenming / Na Weixun

The Day the Sun Turned Cold
Director : Yim Ho
Cast : Tou Chung-hua / Siqin Gaowa / Ma Ching-mo

The Secret of Roan Inish
Director : John Sayles
Cast : Jeni Courtney / Eileen Colgan / Mick Lally

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Young Cinema Competition

War of the Buttons
Director : John Roberts
Cast : Liam Conningham / Gregg Fitzgerald / John Coffey

Fresh
Director : Boaz Yakin
Cast : Sean Nelson / Giancarlo Esposito / Samuel L.Jackson

Bright Day
Director : Andre Nitzschke
Cast : Bruno Ganz / Warner Diesel / Lotte Loebinger

Of Love and Shadows
Director : Betty Kaplan
Cast : Jennifer Connelly / Antonio Banderas / Stefania Sandrelli

A Borrowed Life
Director : Wu Nienjen
Cast : Chai Chengnan / Chai Chiufeng / Chong Yo-hong

Resistance
Director : Hugh Keays-Byrne/Paul Elliott
Cast : Helen Jones / Lorna Leslie / Donal Gibson

Letter to an Angel
Director : Garin Nugroho
Cast : Windy / Nurul Arifin / Adi Kurdi

See How They Fall
Director : Jacques Audiard
Cast : Jean-Louis Trintignant / Jean Yanne / Mathieu Kassovitz

Dance Me Outside
Director : Bruce McDonald
Cast : Ryan Rajendra Black / Adam Beach / Jennifer Podemski

Threesome
Director : Andrew Fleming
Cast : Lara Flynn Boyle / Stephen Baldwin / Josh Charles

Shopping
Director : Paul Anderson
Cast : Sadie Frost / Jude Law / Sean Pertwee

Amateur
Director : Hal Hartley
Cast : Isabelle Huppert / Martin Dönovan / Elina Lowensohn

In Custody
Director : Ismail Merchant
Cast : Shashi Kapoor / Om Puri / Sameer Mitha

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The Best of Asian Films

A Confucian Confusion
Director : Edward Yang
Cast : Chen Xiangqi / Ni Shu-chun / Wang Weiming

Muen and Rid
Director : Cherd Songsri
Cast : Jintara Sukaphat / Santisuk Promsiri / Ron Rittichai

A Dedicated Life
Director : Kazuo Hara
Cast : Kumiko Kim / Yoshie Yamamoto / Haruhi Iso

The Last Cold Days
Director : Bulat Iskakov/Bolat Kalymbetov
Cast : Xenia Baranova / Vitaly Gusev / Nariman Bekturov

The Wild East
Director : Rachid Nougmanov
Cast : Gennady Shatunov / Konstantin Fyodorov / Zhanna Isina

Komitas
Director : Don Askarian
Cast : Samvel Ovasapian / Onig Saadetian

Avetik
Director : Don Askarian
Cast : Alik Assatrian / Mikael Stepanian

Rice People
Director : Rithy Panh
Cast : Peng Phan / Mom Soth / Chhim Naline

Alone in the Night
Director : Takashi Ishii
Cast : Yui Natsukawa / Jinpachi Nezu / Toshiyuki Nagashima

Fearless - The Hunterwali Story
Director : Riyad Vinci Wadia
Cast : Mary Evans-Wadia / John Cavas / Nari Ghadialy

Life and Death of the Hollywood Kid
Director : Chung Ji-young
Cast : Doggo Youngjae / Choi Min-su / Shin Haesu

Two Cops
Director : Kung Woo-suk
Cast : Ahn Sung-ki / Park Joong-hoon / Miss Ji

Always on My Mind
Director : Jacob C.L. Cheung
Cast : Michael Hui / Josephine Siao / John Tang

Bandit Queen
Director : Shekhar Kapur
Cast : Seema Biswas / Nirmal Pandey / Manoj Bajpai

119
Director : Naoto Takenaka
Cast : Hidekazu Akai / Kyoka Suzuki / Naoto Takenaka

Under the Olive Trees
Director : Abbas Kiarostami
Cast : Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz / Hossein Rezai / Tahereh Ladanian

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Special Invitational Screenings

Speed
Director : Jan De Bont
Cast : Keanu Reeves / Dennis Hopper / Sandra Bullock

Crest of Betrayal
Director : Kinji Fukasaku
Cast : Koichi Sato / Saki Takaoka / Keiko Oginome

In Blazing Love
Director : Ikuo Sekimoto
Cast : Rino Katase / Keiko Saito / Yoko Minamino

It could Happen to You
Director : Andrew Bergman
Cast : Nicolas Cage / Bridget Fonda / Rosie Perez

The Stairway to the Distant Past
Director : Kaizo Hayashi
Cast : Masatoshi Nagase / Haruko Wanibuchi / Eiji Okada

Shoot
Director : Carlos Saura
Cast : Francesca Neri / Antonio Banderas / Walter Vidart

Pulp Fiction
Director : Quentin Tarantino
Cast : John Travolta / Samuel L.Jackson / Uma Thurman

Holy Matrimony
Director : Leonard Nimoy
Cast : Patricia Arquette / Joseph Gordon-Levitt / Armin Mueller-Stahl

Tom & Viv
Director : Brian Gilbert
Cast : Willem Dafoe / Miranda Richardson / Rosemary Harris

Four Weddings and a Funeral
Director : Mike Newell
Cast : Hugh Grant / Andie MacDowell / Kristin Scott Thomas

La Reine Margot
Director : Patrice Chereau
Cast : Isabelle Adjani / Daniel Auteuil / Jean-Hugues Anglade

The Client
Director : Joel Schumacher
Cast : Susan Sarandon / Tommy Lee Jones / Brad Renfro

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Special Screening

The Intruder
Director : Roger Corman

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Nippon Cinema Week

A Diary of Chuji's Travels
Director : Daisuke Ito
Cast : Denjiro Okochi / Naoe Fushimi

The Chivalrous Robber Jirokichi
Director : Daisuke Ito
Cast : Denjiro Okochi / Naoe Fushimi

The Striding Samurai
Director : Daisuke Ito
Cast : Tsumasaburo Bando / Chizuru Kitagawa

Five men from Edo
Director : Daisuke Ito
Cast : Tsumasaburo Bando / Utaemon Ichikawa

The Throne of Noh-Play
Director : Daisuke Ito
Cast : Kazuo Hasegawa / Keiko Kishi

The Horror Mansion - Okiku & Harima
Director : Daisuke Ito
Cast : Kazuo Hasegawa / Keiko Tsushima

The Servant's Neck
Director : Daisuke Ito
Cast : Jun Tazaki / Akihiko Katayama

The Rascal Benten
Director : Daisuke Ito
Cast : Raizo Ichikawa / Kyoko Aoyama

The Conspirator
Director : Daisuke Ito
Cast : Kinnosuke Nakamura(Yorozuya) / Kaneko Iwasaki

A Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
Director : Tomu Uchida
Cast : Chiezo Kataoka / Teruo Shimada

The Decision of Samurai
Director : Tomu Uchida
Cast : Chiezo Kataoka / Ryutaro Otomo

Swords in the Moonlight
Director : Tomu Uchida
Cast : Chiezo Kataoka / Kinnosuke Nakamura(Yorozuya)

Their Own World
Director : Tomu Uchida
Cast : Kinnosuke Nakamura(Yorozuya) / Ineko Arima

Men's Ambition
Director : Tomu Uchida
Cast : Ryutaro Otomo / Chikage Awashima

Murder in Yoshiwara
Director : Tomu Uchida
Cast : Chiezo Kataoka / Yoshie Mizutani

Musashi
Director : Tomu Uchida
Cast : Kinnosuke Nakamura(Yorozuya) / Rentaro Mikuni

Love not Again
Director : Tomu Uchida
Cast : Hashizo Okawa / Michiko Saga

Musashi IV
Director : Tomu Uchida
Cast : Kinnosuke Nakamura(Yorozuya) / Wakaba Irie

The Story of Last Chrysanthemum
Director : Kenji Mizoguchi
Cast : Shotaro Hanayagi / Kakuko Mori

Forty - Seven Ronin, The : Part1 & Part2
Director : Kenji Mizoguchi
Cast : Chojuro Kawarazaki / Ganemon Nakamura

Musashi Miyamoto
Director : Kenji Mizoguchi
Cast : Chojuro Kawarazaki / Ganemon Nakamura

Utamaro and His Five Women
Director : Kenji Mizoguchi
Cast : Minosuke Bando / Kinuyo Tanaka

The Life of Oharu
Director : Kenji Mizoguchi
Cast : Kinuyo Tanaka / Hisako Yamane

Ugetsu
Director : Kenji Mizoguchi
Cast : Machiko Kyo / Kinuyo Tanaka

Sansho the Bailiff
Director : Kenji Mizoguchi
Cast : Kinuyo Tanaka / Kyoko Kagawa

A Story from Chikamatsu, Crucified Lovers
Director : Kenji Mizoguchi
Cast : Kazuo Hasegawa / Kyoko Kagawa

New Tales of the Taira Clan
Director : Kenji Mizoguchi
Cast : Raizo Ichikawa / Yoshiko Kuga

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