TIFF is pleased to announce that Brooklyn's Finest will be shown at the 23rd TIFF Special Screening, starting October 23, 2010.

The 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival, Special Screening films
Brooklyn's Finest
This is War. This is Brooklyn.

©2008 BROOKLYN'S FINEST PRODUCTIONS, INC.
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Cast: Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle, Wesley Snipes
*The screening schedule will be announced around end of September.
Distributor: Presidio Corporation
2008/USA
Brooklyn's Finest Official Website: www.cross-ing.jp(Japanese site)
The latest news and updates are available at TIFF Official Website:2010.tiff-jp.net
Don't miss the chance!

Advanced Tickets go on sale on Saturday October 9.
Available at Ticket PIA and LAWSON Ticket (Japanese only)
*For non-Japanese speakers, please refer to our English website for instruction of purchasing the tickets. Ticketing information and our program schedule will be available around end of September.

Super Typhoon, shown at the 21st TIFF Competition section has been decided to be released theatrically in Japan from
September 25, 2010.

A typhoon of unprecedented magnitude is spawned off the coast of China. This spectacular film with special effects portrays various human events that are tossed about by the typhoon.
Showing on September 25 at Shinjuku Mirano in Tokyo and going nationwide

Distributer - Broad Media Studio: www.bmstd.com
Official site of Super Typhoon: www.super-typhoon.com(Japanese site)

Super Typhoon

©Broadmedia Studios Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Our Brief Eternity has been decided to be in release from October 16 2010. The film was shown at the 22nd TIFF Japanese Eyes section, directed by Takuya Fukushima who has been recognized internationally including at ˝10th Nippon Connection˝ film festival in Germany and a new generation's festival ˝SHINSEDAI CINEMA FESTIVAL˝ held in Toronto Canada.
The first-run will begin on Saturday night, October 16 at K's cinema in Shinjuku Tokyo and it will be shown nationwide.

For more details, go to Our Brief Eternity official site
An association of film making, ˝P-Kraft˝ (president: Takuya Fukushima)(Japanese site)
Distributor: MAKOTOYA CO.,LTD.(Japanese site)

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OUR BRIEF ETERNITY

(C)P-kraft, Production Hanashiro

This Bulgarian film, Eastern Plays directed by Kamem Kalev will be released in October 23 in Japan. This outstanding film won 3 Awards; Sakura Grand Prix, Best Director and Best Actor at the 22nd TIFF Competition section.
Venue: Theater Image Forum, Shibuya Tokyo

Eastern Plays - Official site(japanese site)
●Click for Trailer on You Tube
You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV3dxqoi3zw

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Eastern Plays

(C)Waterfront Film, The Chimney Pot, Film I Väst AB

Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is pleased to announce that award-winning Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan will be the Jury President for the International Competition at the 23rd TIFF. He is one of the most highly acclaimed filmmakers in the world and his films have been honored with numerous awards worldwide including Oscar (The Crying Game) and BAFTAs (The Crying Game, The End Of The Affair).
Company Of Wolves, his second film, was selected for the first year of TIFF's Competition section in 1985.

International Competition President - Neil Jordan / Director


Biography
Born in 1950 in Sligo, Ireland, Neil Jordan began his career as a writer. His first book of stories, Night In Tunisia (1976) won the Guardian Fiction prize. Since then he has published five novels, The Past (1979), The Dream Of A Beast (1983), Sunrise With Sea Monster (1994), Shade (2005). His most recent novel, Mistaken will be published in 2011.
In 1982 Jordan wrote and directed his first feature film, Angel. Since then he has written, directed and produced more than fifteen films, including Company Of Wolves, Mona Lisa, The Crying Game, Interview With The Vampire, The End Of The Affair, The Butcher Boy, Breakfast On Pluto, The Good Thief and most recently, Ondine. His films have been honoured with numerous awards worldwide, including an Oscar, Baftas, Golden Globes, A Golden Lion from The Venice Film festival and a Silver Bear from Berlin. He has been awarded five honorary doctorates and in 1996 he was appointed Officier of the French Ordres des Artes et des Lettres.

On April 7 2010, a tree planting project was undertaken at the "Umi-no-Mori (Sea Forest)" in Tokyo bay as a part of TIFF Green Carpet Club (GCC) activities.

The 22nd TIFF conducted a fund-raising campaign for conservation and protection of global environment among general public and international filmmakers and mainly from GCC members.

TIFF Office contributed some part of fund-raising to "Tokyo Green Charity" based on the concept of our campaign. Afterward, Tokyo metropolitan government suggested us to participate in a tree planting project, "Umi-no-Mori".
This year, we have decided to be a part of it for the first time.





(C)2010 TIFF

GCC will continue to implement this kind of activities in the future. The news and activities will be updated regularly in our official website and news letters.

GCC Green Carpet Club
http://2010.tiff-jp.net/en/gcc