The full competition jury for the 37th Tokyo International Film Festival has been revealed.
On Friday, festival organizers announced that Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To, Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi, Japanese actress Ai Hashimoto and French actress Chiara Mastroianni will be members of the 2024 main competition jury alongside previously announced jury president Tony Leung.
To, like Leung a legend of Hong Kong cinema, is famed the world over for his action and crime films. The veteran and prolific filmmaker’s credits include Breaking News, Exiled, Mad Detective, Drug War and the Election films (Election, Election 2 (a.k.a. Triad Election). To, a regular feature of the international film festival circuit, has had six films screen at the Cannes Film Festival, two in competition, as well as had four films selected to compete at the Venice Film Festival.
Enyedi is best known for writing and directing the Hungarian drama On Body and Soul, which won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival and Sydney Film Festival, and was also nominated for best international feature film at the 2018 Academy Awards. Enyedi’s most recent feature, The Story of My Wife starring Léa Seydoux, premiered at Cannes in 2021 and Tony Leung is attached to star in her next film Silent Friend.
Japanese actress, fashion model and singer Ai Hashimoto has served as a Tokyo Film Festival ambassador in 2021 and 2022. Her best known credits include The Kirishima Thing and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 2023 Netflix geisha drama The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House.
Rounding out the jury is French actress Chiara Mastroianni. Hailing from acting royalty — Mastroianni is the daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve — the actress made her name in French cinema with films like Christophe Honoré’s Beloved and Making Plans For Lena, and Claire Denis’ Bastards. Mastroianni was nominated for a Cesar Award and won the coveted best actress award in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in Honoré’s On a Magical Night.
The 2024 Tokyo Film Festival runs Oct. 28 through Nov. 6.