Film Matchmakers aims to create a meeting place for Japanese film rights-holders with curators and buyers worldwide
Organized by Film Matchmakers & Bewiz
Programs offered in 2022
NEWSJapanese cinema programs in the world.
- NEW Nagisa Oshima Retrospective and Exhibition （大島渚監督特集）National Film Archive of Japan from 11th April 2023
- NEW Toshiro Mifune Retrospective（三船敏郎特集） the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia and Lightbox Film Center April 2023
- Seijun Suzuki Centennial （鈴木清順監督生誕100周年）Japan Society Feb 2023
- HACHIMIRI MADNESS: JAPANESE INDIES FROM THE PUNK YEARS （PFF８ミリマッドネス）Ausutin Film Soceity 2023
- Akira Kurosawa (黒澤明特集) BFI 2023
- HIROKAZU KORE-EDA (是枝裕和監督特集）Nantes Festival des 3 ContinentsNantes 2022
- HACHIMIRI MADNESS: JAPANESE INDIES FROM THE PUNK YEARS （PFF８ミリマッドネス）Metrograph in NY 2022
- Yoshimitsu Morita Retrospective （森田芳光監督特集）Film at Lincoln Center 2022
- LE JAPON CACHÉ DE KAZUHIRO SODA （想田和弘監督特集） Kinotayo Festival du cinéma japonais 2022
- PRENDRE SOIN. AUTOUR DES FILMS DE HANEDA SUMIKO （羽田澄子監督特集）Jeu de Paume - Paris 2022
- Retrospective Juzo Itami （伊丹十三監督特集）Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2022
- Meiko Kaji, Lady Scorpion （梶芽衣子特集）Lumière Film Festival 2022
- Kazuhiko Hasegawa and Director’s Company (長谷川和彦とディレクターズ・カンパニー) National Film Archive of Japan 2022
- Director in Focus : Aoyama Shinji （青山真治監督）Tokyo International Film Festival 2022
- Suzuki Seiijun Touring Retrospective (鈴木清順巡回特集）in collaboration with nine universities and theaters in USA 2022-2023
- Discovering New Japanese Cinema （次世代監督特集）Busan International Film Festival 2022
- Retrospectiva Seijun Suzuki（鈴木清順特集）Cineteca Nacional Mexico 2022
- Stories of Youth at the Nippon Connection 2022
- Kenji Misumi: An Instinctive Auteur (三隈研次特集) Il Cinema Ritrovato 2022
- Toshiro Mifune: Japanese Cinema's Original Rebel （三船敏郎特集）Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art 2022
- Portraits of Women - A Tribute to Tanaka Kinuyo （田中絹代特集）46th Hong Kong International Film Festival 2022 /93 page
- Rétrospective Kinuyo Tanaka（田中絹代特集）Lumière Film Festival 2021
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Film Curation Matching for Japanese Cinema
Interested in running a Japanese film program, but not sure who the rights-holders are or where the screening copies are?
Why not talk directly to Japanese film rights owners to see what film packages they are offering? During key film markets, matchmakers will arrange one-on-one meetings between companies presenting film packages and film programmers from around the world.