Tokyo pays tribute to Shindo

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Festival News

The Tokyo International Film Festival 東京国際映画祭 (20-28 Oct) will put on a special screening of Postcard 一枚のハガキ (2010), the last film by veteran film-maker SHINDO Kaneto 新藤兼人, who died in May age 100.

The war drama competed at the festival in 2010, where it received its world premiere. It won the runner-up Special Jury Prize and was singled-out for special praise by jury head Neil Jordan at the event's closing ceremony.

The festival will show it again in Tokyo on 29 Sept at the Akasaka Civic Center Hall. The film is about the impact of the Sino-Japanese War on a remote village and the men who return from the frontline to that devastation.

After the memorial screening, a talk will be held with SHINDO Jiro 新藤次郎, his son and the producer of Postcard, examining his father's lifelong passion for cinema. He will be interviewed by TIFF programming director, Yoshi YATABE 矢田部吉彦.

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