[KineJapan] V-Cinema at Rotterdam Film Fest

[Tom Mes]

Hello all,

Some of you will have seen this on my social media channels, but for the 
upcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 29 - Feb 8) I'm 
curating a focus program on V-Cinema - in its broadest sense of 
made-for-video features, not limited to those of Toei.

We're showing a total of 18 titles, including rarely seen films by 
well-known names such as Miike Takashi, Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Nakata Hideo, 
Aoyama Shinji, Harada Masato, Nakahara Shun and Ishii Takashi, but also 
titles that have never been shown on a cinema screen before. The full 
line-up is here:

https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2026/focus-v-cinema

As part of the program, I will be hosting a conversation with the 
program's two main guests, directors Okawa Toshimichi (Crime Hunter) and 
Tsuruta Norio (Scary True Stories) - not names you tend to find in 
history books, yet arguably two of the most influential Japanese 
filmmakers of the past forty years. This will take place on February 5:

https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2026/events/tiger-talk-v-cinema-the-other-history-of-japanese-film

Looking forward to hopefully seeing some of you there!

All the best,
Tom Mes