Tokyo International Film Festival

Tokyo International Film Festival
	Venue signage at Roppongi Station during the 18th TIFF in 2005.
Location	Tokyo, Japan
Founded	1985
Most recent	2024
Language	International
Website	www.tiff-jp.net
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The Tokyo International Film Festival (東京国際映画祭, Tōkyōkokusaieigasai, TIFF) is a film festival established in 1985. The event was held biennially from 1985 to 1991 and annually thereafter. According to the FIAPF, it is one of Asia's competitive film festivals and the second largest film festival in Asia behind the Shanghai International Film Festival, as well as the only Japanese festival accredited by the FIAPF.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The awards handed out during the festival have changed throughout its existence, but the Tokyo Grand Prix, handed to the best film, has stayed as the top award. Other awards that have been given regularly include the Special Jury Award and awards for best actor, best actress and best director.^[4]

In recent years, the festival's main events have been held over one week in late October, at the Roppongi Hills development. Events include open-air screenings, voice-over screenings, and appearances by actors, as well as seminars and symposiums related to the film market.^[3]

List of festivals and award winners

Edition	Year	Jury president	Award winners
Edition	Year	Jury president	Tokyo Grand Prix Director	Best Director Film	Best Actor Film	Best Actress Film	Special Jury Prize Director
1st	1985	David Puttnam	Typhoon Club Shinji Sōmai	Péter Gothár Time Stands Still	Not awarded		Jacques and November François Bouvier and Jean Beaudry Kiss of the Spider Woman Héctor Babenco
2nd	1987	Gregory Peck	Old Well Wu Tianming	Lana Gogoberidze Turnover	Zhang Yimou Old Well	Rachel Ward The Good Wife	Housekeeping Bill Forsyth
3rd	1989	Yves Montand	That Summer of White Roses Rajko Grlić	Rajko Grlić That Summer of White Roses	Marlon Brando A Dry White Season	Elena Yakovleva Intergirl	Intergirl Pyotr Todorovsky
4th	1991	Lewis Gilbert	City of Hope John Sayles	Alan Parker The Commitments	Otar Megvinetukhutsesi Get Thee Out	Zhao Lirong The Spring Festival	A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang The Spring Festival Huang Jianchong
5th	1992	Richard D. Zanuck	White Badge Chung Ji-young	Chung Ji-young White Badge	Max Von Sydow The Silent Touch	Lumi Cavazos Like Water for Chocolate	About Love, Tokyo Mitsuo Yanagimachi
6th	1993	Franco Zeffirelli	The Blue Kite Tian Zhuangzhuang	Taylor Hackford Blood In Blood Out	Masahiro Motoki Last Song	Lü Liping The Blue Kite Lolita Davidovich Younger and Younger	Searching for Bobby Fischer Steven Zaillian
7th	1994	Mike Medavoy	The Day the Sun Turned Cold Yim Ho	Yim Ho The Day the Sun Turned Cold	Niu Zhenhua Back to Back, Face to Face	Debra Winger A Dangerous Woman	47 Ronin Kon Ichikawa
8th	1995	Hugh Hudson	Not awarded	Joseph Novoa Sicario	Not awarded	Yasuko Tomita The Christ of Nanjing	The Man Who Read Music from Plates Jan Jakub Kolski
9th	1996	Serge Silberman	Kolya Jan Svěrák	Wu Tianming The King of Masks	Zhu Xu The King of Masks	Hildegun Riise and Marie Theisen The Other Side of Sunday	In Full Gallop Krzysztof Zanussi Libertarias Vicente Aranda
10th	1997	Saul Zaentz	The Perfect Circle Ademir Kenović Beyond Silence Caroline Link	Ademir Kenović The Perfect Circle	Koji Yakusho Cure	Rene Liu and Jing Tseng Murmur of Youth	Brassed Off Mark Herman
11th	1998	Jeremy Thomas	Open Your Eyes Alejandro Amenábar	Guy Ritchie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels	Brad Renfro Apt Pupil	Maki Miyamoto The Geisha House	Leaf on a Pillow Garin Nugroho
12th	1999	Karel Reisz	Darkness and Light Chang Tso-chi	Martha Fiennes Onegin	Carlos Alvarez-Novoa Alone	María Galiana Alone	Rainbow Trout Park Jong-won
13th	2000	Volker Schlöndorff	Amores perros Alejandro González Iñárritu	Alejandro González Iñárritu Amores perros	Moussa Maaskri Mondialito	Jennifer Jason Leigh The King is Alive	Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors Hong Sang-soo
14th	2001	Norman Jewison	Slogans Gjergj Xhuvani	Reza Mirkarimi Under the Moonlight Gjergj Xhuvani Slogans	Andrew Howard Mr In-Between	Luiza Xhuvani Slogans	Under the Moonlight Reza Mirkarimi
15th	2002	Luc Besson	Broken Wings Nir Bergman	Carlo Rola Sass	Graham Greene Skins	Donatella Finocchiaro Angela	Hotel Hibiscus Yuji Nakae
16th	2003	Gong Li	Nuan Huo Jianqi	Chris Valentien and Till Schauder Santa Smokes	Teruyuki Kagawa Nuan	Shinobu Terajima Vibrator Khristy Jean Hulslander Santa Smokes	The Suit Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov
17th	2004	Yoji Yamada	Whisky Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll	Im Chan-sang The President's Barber	Olzhas Nusuppaev Schizo	Mirella Pascual Whisky	Kekexili: Mountain Patrol Lu Chuan
18th	2005	Zhang Yimou	What the Snow Brings Kichitaro Negishi	Kichitaro Negishi What the Snow Brings	Kōichi Satō What the Snow Brings	Helena Bonham Carter Conversations with Other Women Jin Yaqin You and Me	Conversations with Other Women Hans Canosa
19th	2006	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies Michel Hazanavicius	Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris Little Miss Sunshine	Roy Dupuis The Rocket	Abigail Breslin Little Miss Sunshine	Thirteen Princess Trees Lü Yue
20th	2007	Alan Ladd Jr.	The Band's Visit Eran Kolirin	Peter Howitt Dangerous Parking	Damian Ul Tricks	Shefali Shah Gandhi, My Father	The Western Trunk Line Li Ji-xian
21st	2008	Jon Voight	Tyulpan Sergey Dvortsevoy	Sergey Dvortsevoy Tyulpan	Vincent Cassel Mesrine	Félicité Wouassi With a Little Help from Myself	Four Nights with Anna Jerzy Skolimowski
22nd	2009	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Eastern Plays Kamen Kalev	Kamen Kalev Eastern Plays	Christo Christov Eastern Plays	Julie Gayet Eight Times Up	Rabia Sebastián Cordero
23rd	2010	Neil Jordan	Intimate Grammar Nir Bergman	Gilles Paquet-Brenner Sarah's Key	Wang Qianyuan The Piano in a Factory	Fan Bingbing Buddha Mountain	Postcard Kaneto Shindo
24th	2011	Edward R. Pressman	The Intouchables Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache	Ruben Östlund Play	François Cluzet The Intouchables	Glenn Close Albert Nobbs	The Woodsman and the Rain Shuichi Okita
25th	2012	Roger Corman	The Other Son Lorraine Lévy	Lorraine Lévy The Other Son	Seo Young-joo Juvenile Offender	Neslihan Atagül Araf	Juvenile Offender Kang Yi-kwan
26th	2013	Chen Kaige	We Are the Best! Lukas Moodysson	Benedikt Erlingsson Of Horses and Men	Wang Jingchun To Live and Die in Ordos	Eugene Domingo Barber's Tales	Bending the Rules Behnam Behzadi
27th	2014	James Gunn	Heaven Knows What Joshua Safdie and Ben Safdie	Joshua Safdie and Ben Safdie Heaven Knows What	Robert Więckiewicz The Mighty Angel	Rie Miyazawa Pale Moon	The Lesson Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov
28th	2015	Bryan Singer	Nise: The Heart of Madness Roberto Berliner	Mustafa Kara Cold of Kalandar	Roland Møller and Louis Hofmann Land of Mine	Glória Pires Nise: The Heart of Madness	All Three of Us Kheiron
29th	2016	Jean-Jacques Beineix	The Bloom of Yesterday Chris Kraus	Hana Jušić Quit Staring at My Plate	Paolo Ballesteros Die Beautiful	Lene Cecilia Sparrok Sami Blood	Sami Blood Amanda Kernell
30th	2017	Tommy Lee Jones	Grain Semih Kaplanoğlu	Edmund Yeo Aqérat (We, The Dead)	Duan Yihong The Looming Storm	Adeline D'Hermy Maryline	Crater Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino
31st	2018	Brillante Mendoza	Amanda Mikhaël Hers	Edoardo De Angelis The Vice of Hope	Jesper Christensen Before the Frost	Pina Turco The Vice of Hope	Before the Frost Michael Noer
32nd	2019	Zhang Ziyi	Uncle Frelle Petersen	Saeed Roustayi Just 6.5	Navid Mohammadzadeh Just 6.5	Nadia Tereszkiewicz Only the Animals	Atlantis Valentyn Vasyanovych
33rd	2020	No competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
34th	2021	Isabelle Huppert	Vera Dreams of the Sea Kaltrina Krasniqi	Darezhan Omirbaev Poet	Amir Aghaei, Fatih Al, Bariş Yildiz, and Onur Buldu The Four Walls	Julia Chávez The Other Tom	La civil Teodora Mihai
35th	2022	Julie Taymor	The Beasts Rodrigo Sorogoyen	Rodrigo Sorogoyen The Beasts	Denis Ménochet The Beasts	Aline Küppenheim 1976	World War III Houman Seyyedi
36th	2023	Wim Wenders	Snow Leopard Pema Tseden	Kishi Yoshiyuki (Ab)normal Desire	Yasna Mirtahmasb Roxana	Zar Amir Ebrahimi Tatami	Tatami Guy Nattiv, Zar Amir Ebrahimi
37th^[5]^[6]	2024	Tony Leung	Teki Cometh Daihachi Yoshida	Daihachi Yoshida Teki Cometh	Kyōzō Nagatsuka Teki Cometh	Anamaria Vartolomei Traffic	Adios Amigo Iván David Gaona

Other awards

Best Screenplay Award

2017 - Euthanizer, Teemu Nikki
2018 - Amanda, Mikhael Hers and Maud Ameline
2019 - A Beloved Wife, Shin Adachi

Best Artistic Contribution Award

2012 - Pankaj Kumar, Ship of Theseus^[7]
2014 - Ispytanie, Aleksandr Kott
2015 - Family Film, Olmo Omerzu
2017 - The Looming Storm
2018 - The White Crow
2019 - Chaogtu with Sarula
2021 - Crane Lantern
2022 - Peacock Lament, Sanjeewa Pushpakumara
2024 - My Friend An Delie, Dong Zijian

Audience Award

2013 - Red Family, Lee Ju-hyoung^[8]
2014 - Pale Moon, Daihachi Yoshida
2015 - God Willing, Edoardo Falcone
2016 - Die Beautiful, Jun Lana
2017 - Tremble All You Want, Akiko Ooku
2018 - Another World, Junji Sakamoto
2019 - Only the Animals, Dominik Moll
2020 - Hold Me Back, Akiko Ooku (sole award given)
2021 - Just Remembering, Daigo Matsui
2022 - By the Window, Rikiya Imaizumi
2024 - Big World, Yang Lina

Asian Future Best Film Award

2014 - Bedone marz بدون مرز, Amirhossein Asgari امیرحسین عسگری
2015 - Pimpaka Towira, The Island Funeral
2016 - Birdshot
2017 - Passage of Life
2018 - A First Farewell
2019 - Summer Knight
2021 - World, Northern Hemisphere
2022 - Butterflies Live Only One Day, Mohammadreza Vatandoust
2024 - Apollon by Day Athena by Night, Emine Yildirim

Japanese Cinema Splash Best Picture Award

2014 - 100 Yen Love, Masaharu Take
2015 - Ken and Kazu, Hiroshi Shoji
2017 - Of Love & Law, Hikaru Toda
2016 - Poolsideman, Hirobumi Watanabe
2018 - Lying to Mom, Katsumi Nojiri
2019 - i -Documentary of the Journalist-, Tatsuya Mori

Tokyo Gemstone Award

2017 - Mayu Matsuoka, Shizuka Ishibashi, Adeline D'Hermy, Daphne Low
2018 - Lien Binh Phat, Karelle Tremblay, Mai Kiryu, Nijiro Murakami
2019 - Josefine Frida Pettersen, Sairi Ito, Riru Yoshina, Yui Sakuma

References

^ "FIAPF Accredited Festivals Directory - 2019 edition". Fiapf | International Federation of Film Producers Associations. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
^ International Federation of Film Producers Associations.
^ ^a ^b "Tokyo International Film Festival - Outline". www.tiff-jp.net.
^ "Grand Prix Winners at the Tokyo International Film Festival". nippon.com. 2018-11-16. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
^ Frater, Patrick (29 August 2024). "Tokyo Film Festival Launches Women's Empowerment Section". Variety. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
^ Choi, Jimin (6 November 2024). "'Teki Cometh' wins trio of prizes at Tokyo International Film Festival". ScreenDaily. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
^ Ship of Theseus, retrieved 2018-05-26
^ Conran, Pierce (28 October 2013). "RED FAMILY Triumphs in Tokyo Int. Film Fest". Korean Film Council. Retrieved 11 September 2018.

External links

[1] "FIAPF Accredited Festivals Directory - 2019 edition". Fiapf | International Federation of Film Producers Associations. Retrieved 2023-05-17.

[2] International Federation of Film Producers Associations.

[tiff-jp.net-3] "Tokyo International Film Festival - Outline". www.tiff-jp.net.

[4] "Grand Prix Winners at the Tokyo International Film Festival". nippon.com. 2018-11-16. Retrieved 2019-09-21.

[5] Frater, Patrick (29 August 2024). "Tokyo Film Festival Launches Women's Empowerment Section". Variety. Retrieved 7 September 2024.

[awards:sd-6] Choi, Jimin (6 November 2024). "'Teki Cometh' wins trio of prizes at Tokyo International Film Festival". ScreenDaily. Retrieved 6 November 2024.

[7] Ship of Theseus, retrieved 2018-05-26

[8] Conran, Pierce (28 October 2013). "RED FAMILY Triumphs in Tokyo Int. Film Fest". Korean Film Council. Retrieved 11 September 2018.

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v t e Tokyo International Film Festival – Best Actor
1980s	Zhang Yimou (1987) Marlon Brando (1989)
1990s	Otar Megvinetukhutsesi (1991) Max von Sydow (1992) Masahiro Motoki (1993) Niu Zhenhua (1994) Zhu Xu (1996) Koji Yakusho (1997) Brad Renfro (1998) Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa (1999)
2000s	Moussa Maaskri (2000) Andrew Howard (2001) Graham Greene (2002) Teruyuki Kagawa (2003) Oldzhas Nusupbayev (2004) Kōichi Satō (2005) Roy Dupuis (2006) Damian Ul (2007) Vincent Cassel (2008) Christo Christov (2009)
2010s	Wang Qianyuan (2010) François Cluzet / Omar Sy (2011) Seo Young-joo (2012) Wang Jingchun (2013) Robert Więckiewicz (2014) Roland Møller / Louis Hofmann (2015) Paolo Ballesteros (2016) Duan Yihong (2017) Jesper Christensen (2018) Navid Mohammadzadeh (2019) No Award (2020)
2020s	Amir Aghaei (2021) Denis Ménochet (2022) Yasna Mirtahmasb (2023) Kyōzō Nagatsuka (2024)

v t e Tokyo International Film Festival – Best Actress
1980s	Rachel Ward (1987) Elena Yakovleva (1989)
1990s	Zhao Lirong (1991) Lumi Cavazos (1992) Lü Liping (1993) Debra Winger (1994) Yasuko Tomita (1995) Hildegunn Riise (1996) Rene Liu / Tseng Jing (1997) Maki Miyamoto (1998) María Galiana (1999)
2000s	Jennifer Jason Leigh (2000) Luiza Xhuvani (2001) Donatella Finocchiaro (2002) Shinobu Terajima / Khristy Jean Hulslander (2003) Mirella Pascual (2004) Helena Bonham Carter (2005) Abigail Breslin (2006) Shefali Shah (2007) Félicité Wouassi (2008) Julie Gayet (2009)
2010s	Fan Bingbing (2010) Glenn Close (2011) Neslihan Atagül (2012) Eugene Domingo (2013) Rie Miyazawa (2014) Glória Pires (2015) Lene Cecilia Sparrok (2016) Adeline D'Hermy (2017) Pina Turco (2018) Nadia Tereszkiewicz (2019) No Award (2020)
2020s	Julia Chávez (2021) Aline Küppenheim (2022) Zar Amir Ebrahimi (2023) Anamaria Vartolomei (2024)

v t e FIAPF-accredited film festivals
Competitive	Berlin Cairo Cannes Goa Karlovy Vary Locarno Mar del Plata San Sebastián Shanghai Tallinn Tehran Tokyo Venice Warsaw
Competitive specialised	Antalya Busan Cartagena Cluj Gijón Istanbul Kitzbühel Kolkata Kyiv Milan Nur-Sultan Rome Sitges Sofia Sydney Thiruvananthapuram Turin
Non-competitive	Toronto Vienna
Documentary/ short	Bilbao Kraków Oberhausen Tampere
Formerly accredited	Adelaide Bogotá Brussels Ghent Haugesund Jeonju Minsk Montreal Moscow Namur São Paulo Sarajevo St. Petersburg Stockholm Thessaloniki Wiesbaden Wrocław