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Tuesday 25 October 2011

Tokyo film festival highlights power of cinema

This year's Tokyo International Film Festival opened Oct. 22 to great fanfare--literally.

The 24th TIFF, titled "Believe! The Power of Film," opened to the sound of trumpets with "The Three Musketeers," a 3-D remake of the classic swashbuckler. Jackie Chan's action flick "1911" was the joint opener. Stars from both movies took to the TIFF's customary green carpet, made out of recycled plastic bottles, rolled out on Keyakizaka street in Tokyo's Roppongi district.

However, things looked more gray than green when a thunderstorm threatened to call off the opening ceremony.   Read Here
 

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