[KineJapan] V-Cinema at Rotterdam Film Fest

[Earl Jackson]

V-Cinema festival - what could be more fun?
Earl Jackson
Professor, Emeritus
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Associate Professor, Emeritus
University of California, Santa Cruz, the US


On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 9:54 PM William Carroll via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> 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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