115. 38th Tokyo International Film Festival (2025) Dispatch (Hamnet, Love Massacre, Palestine 36, The Mastermind, and MORE!)
Description
Armed with a press pass and the Japanese language level of a 3 year old, Ben took to the cinemas of Tokyo during the 38th Tokyo International Film Festival. Ben’s coverage spans a varied 17 films over 10 days of the festival: buzzy and fresh Japanese films (Bring Him Down to a Portable Size; The Last Blossom; All Greens…) international film festival darlings (Lost Land; Palestine 36…), and a handful of exciting restorations (Demon Pond, Love Massacre…).
And if you haven’t listened to Ben’s interviews from during the festival, what are you waiting for?
114. Sato and Sato (2025): Interview with Director Amano Chihiro
116. Morte Cucina (2025): Interview with Pen-ek Ratanaruang and Bella Boonsang (forthcoming!)
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:04:23 TIFF38 Press Experience
00:08:55 Demon Pond (1979) dir. Masahiro Shinoda
00:14:28 Pale Flower (1964) dir. Masahiro Shinoda
00:17:55 Floating Clouds (1955) dir. Mikio Naruse
00:23:32 Love Massacre (1981) dir. Patrick Tam
00:29:01 April Story (1998) dir. April Story
00:32:58 3.11 disaster sidebar
00:36:10 Blonde (2025) dir. Yûichirô Sakashita
00:39:35 Sato and Sato (2025) dir. Chihiro Amano
00:43:41 All Greens (2025) dir. Takashi Koyama
00:47:40 The Last Blossom (2025) dir. Baku Kinoshita
00:52:35 Lost Land (2025) dir. Akio Fujimoto
00:58:30 Echoes of the Orient (2025) dir. Yang Liping
01:00:55 Labyrinth (2025) dir. Shoji Kawamori
01:03:46 Bring Him Down to a Portable Size (2025) dir. Ryota Nakano
01:07:18 Morte Cucina (2025) dir. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
01:12:45 Palestine 36 (2025) dir. Annemarie Jacir
01:20:16 The Mastermind (2025) dir. Kelly Reichardt
01:24:23 Hamnet (2025) dir. Chloé Zhao
01:32:55 Wrap-up























