Vietnamese born French film director Tran Anh Hung will join the jury of Tokyo International Film Festival this year, led by Byran Singer as President. While Singer, quite the coup for TIFF, was announced back in July, TIFF has revealed that Tran Anh Hung will join four others on the jury for the event, which takes place October 22-31, 2015 at Roppongi Hills, as well as various other city locations for the first time.The full jury for the 28th TIFF is set to include Norwegian director Bent Hamer (“Kitchen Stories,” “1001 Grams”), Hong Kong producr Nansun Shi (“The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate,” “The Taking of Tiger Mountain”), Danish director Susanne Bier (“After the Wedding,” “In a Better World”) and Japanese director and screenwriter Kazuki Omori (“Disciples of Hippocrates,” “Godzilla vs. King Ghidrah”).Tran Anh Hung broke through with “The Scent of Green Papaya” (1993), a Camera d’Or prize winner at Cannes 1993 and nominee for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film the same year. Considered to be the leader of a wave of overseas Vietnamese directors, he has a particular connection to Japan, having directed “Norwegian Wood” in 2010.That film was an adaptation of novelist Haruki Murakami’s novel of the same name, and starred Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi and Kiko Mizuhara.TIFF will open this year with “The Walk” by director Robert Zemeckis, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and telling the true story of Philippe Petit, a high wire artist who in 1974 walked between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. The festival will close with “Terminal” from Tetsuo Shinohara.
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