The official website for the Tokyo Filmex has gone live and this thing's got - in my view, anyway - a much more interesting lineup than the Tokyo International Film Festival, which is also running soon.
What's got my attention? Oh, you know ... a little film we like a bit called SPL. Fipresci winner Sakwa. And, most exciting of all the feature length version of Song Il-Gon's Magician(s)! As far as I can tell this is the world premiere for the full version of the latest from Song, commissioned as a short for the Jeonjeu Film Festival and now expanded up to a 95 minute run time! They're also running a retrospective on Nakagawa Nobuo and running a program of Swiss films ...