Japan arrived at this year’s Berlinale with nine films in selection and the wind at its back — “Demon Slayer” and “Chainsaw Man” still fresh in the box office record books, Cannes honors on the horizon. But at Monday’s Japan Night, the conversation wasn’t about past successes or established auteurs. It was about who and what comes next.
Hosted by the Embassy of Japan in Germany with the cooperation of the Agency for Cultural Affairs and operational cooperation from Unijapan and Vipo, Japan’s film industry gathered to celebrate the Japanese films in this year’s Berlinale selection and hear from four emerging directors and three emerging producers from Japan, who each announced their new and upcoming projects.
Emma Kawawada joined Bunbuku in 2014, where she served as assistant director on films by Kore-eda Hirokazu. Her commercial feature film debut, “My Small Land,” was invited to the Berlinale in 2022. Kawawada’s new feature,…
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