Soaked by several days of rain, the by-product of a nearby typhoon, the Tokyo International Film Festival and its accompanying TIFFCOM industry event might have been forgiven for being a little soggy. But spirits were rarely dampened. And, as the rains eased off at the festival’s midpoint, a handful of largely positive themes had been washed clear.
CHINESE HOTSPOT
The Tokyo festival represents a surprising springboard for Chinese films to make their international festival comeback – Chinese and Japanese political relations remain testy at best – but for the second year in a row there were three mainland Chinese indie pics in Tokyo’s
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