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Asian Stars Shine in Eclectic Tokyo Film Festival Lineup
1 Oct, 2025
Summary
- Fan Bingbing and Zhang Ziyi lead high-profile films at Tokyo festival
- Diverse competition includes emerging voices and veteran auteurs
- Festival opens with Everest pioneer story, closes with Shakespeare-inspired drama
The 38th Tokyo International Film Festival, set to take place from October 28 to November 5, 2025, will feature a high-profile lineup of films, including two major works led by Asian superstars.
The competition section will showcase "Mother Bhumi," a drama starring Fan Bingbing as a widowed village woman who uses sorcery to protect her community, and "She Has No Name," a gala selection directed by Peter Ho-sun Chan and starring Zhang Ziyi as a Shanghai housewife accused of her husband's murder in the 1940s.
