[KineJapan] V-Cinema at Rotterdam Film Fest

[William Carroll]

This looks incredible. I wish I could go!
On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 11:12 PM Tom Mes via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
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