Yoshino Kimura & Tom Yoda, Tokyo International Film Festival

Time: 2009 Sep 17 12:00 - 14:00
Summary:

PROFESSIONAL LUNCHEON
Yoshino Kimura, Actress & TIFF Ambassador;
Tom Yoda, Chairman, Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF)

Language:

The speech will be in English and the Q & A in Japanese with English interpretation.

Description:

Tom Yoda, chairman of the Tokyo International Film Festival, and Festival Ambassador Yoshino Kimura, will talk about this year's festival and about changes in the Japanese film industry over the past decade.

Tom Yoda, a Meiji University graduate, was appointed chairman of the Tokyo film festival in March 2008. He has been in the entertainment-content business since 1988 and has been chairman of the film distribution/production company Gaga Communications Inc since 2004, and since this July majority owner and president/CEO. He owns and heads other entertainment companies and sits on several outside boards. He holds or has held posts on many other entertainment industry representative groups.

Yoshino Kimura debuted as the lead actress in NHK drama "Genki wo Ageru" ("I'll Cheer You Up") in 1996. The following year she won the Japan Academy Prize rookie-of-the-year award for her first movie role, "Shitsurakuen" ("Paradise lost"). She won the Academy's best actress award in 2006 for her role in "Semi Shigure" (released with English sub-titles as "The Samurai I Loved"). She has starred in a Hollywood film, "Dream Cruise," and appeared in more than 50 TV, film and stage productions. As a singer, she has released singles and albums.

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