Period thriller “11 Rebels” has been set as the opening film of next month’s Tokyo International Film Festival.
Directed by the prolific Shiraishi Kazuya from a previously-unproduced screenplay by the late Kasahara Kazuo, the film stars popular actors Yamada Takayuki and Nakano Taiga.
“We expect this powerful film to mark a spectacular opening to the festival,” Tokyo festival organizers said. The festival runs from Oct. 28 to Nov. 6 in the Hibiya-Yurakucho-Marunouchi-Ginza area.
Organizers also said that the festival will close with French-Italian comedy “Marcello Mio,” in which French actress Chiara Mastroianni, plays a character who turns into her real-life father, the famous film director Marcello Mastroianni.
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