Tokyo Film Festival

[Aaron Gerow]

The Tokyo Film Festival closed this weekend with no awards for home 
country films (it always seems they come up with one token award for a 
Japanese work, but not this time).  But quite a number of Japanese films 
were shown, including premieres of the new Godzilla film and Miike's Dead 
or Alive.  New Cinema from Japan also showed a lot of films (including at 
least one, Hiroki Ryuichi's _I Am an SM Writer_, which enjoyed probably 
one of it's first screenings--star Osugi Ren, Hiroki and others involved 
were there).  I know a number of KineJapan members were there. Any 
comments on the Festival or films seen there?