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Tokyo International Film Festival

Annual film festival held in Tokyo, Japan

Summary

Annual film festival held in Tokyo, Japan

Field	Value
name	Tokyo International Film Festival
image	File:Roppongi-Station-2005-10-24_1.jpg
caption	Venue signage at Roppongi Station during the 18th TIFF in 2005
logo	Tokyo International Film Festival logo.svg
founded	1985
last	2025
location	Tokyo, Japan
language	International
website
previous	37th
main	Current: 38th
next	39th

The Tokyo International Film Festival 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.

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.

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.

List of festivals and award winners

Edition	Year	Jury president	Award winners	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	2024	Tony Leung	Teki Cometh
Daihachi Yoshida	Daihachi Yoshida
Teki Cometh	Kyōzō Nagatsuka
Teki Cometh	Anamaria Vartolomei
Traffic	Adios Amigo
Iván David Gaona
38th	2025	Carlo Chatrian	Palestine 36
Annemarie Jacir	Zhang Lü/Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis
Mothertongue/Heads or Tails?	Wang Chuanjun
Mothertongue	Momoko Fukuchi and Naomi Kawase
Echoes of Motherhood	We Are the Fruits of the Forest
Rithy Panh

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
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
2025 - Mother by Teona Strugar Mitevska

Audience Award

2013 - Red Family, Lee Ju-hyoung
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
2025 - Blonde by Sakashita Yuichiro

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
2025 - Halo by Roh Young-wan

Japanese Cinema Splash Best Picture Award

Meryl Streep at opening ceremony in 2016

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 - Liên Bỉnh Phát, Karelle Tremblay, Mai Kiryu, Nijiro Murakami
2019 - Josefine Frida Pettersen, Sairi Ito, Riru Yoshina, Yui Sakuma

References

"FIAPF Accredited Festivals Directory - 2019 edition".
[http://www.fiapf.org/intfilmfestivals_sites.asp International Federation of Film Producers Associations].
"Tokyo International Film Festival - Outline".
(2018-11-16). "Grand Prix Winners at the Tokyo International Film Festival".
Frater, Patrick. (29 August 2024). "Tokyo Film Festival Launches Women’s Empowerment Section".
Choi, Jimin. (6 November 2024). "‘Teki Cometh’ wins trio of prizes at Tokyo International Film Festival".
Abid Rahman. (September 3, 2025). "Carlo Chatrian Named Jury President at Tokyo Film Festival".
"Ship of Theseus".
Conran, Pierce. (28 October 2013). "RED FAMILY Triumphs in Tokyo Int. Film Fest". [[Korean Film Council]].

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