Festival Guests
(as of May 29, 2026)
Nippon Cinema
Anna YAMADA – Actor: NEW GROUP / ChaO / Little Love Song
Kei ISHIKAWA – Director: A Pale View of Hills / Nippon Visions Jury
Yoshiyuki OKUYAMA – Director: 5 Centimeters per Second
Taichi KIMURA – Director: FUJIKO
Yuta SHIMOTSU – Director: NEW GROUP
Tsuyoshi KOBAYASHI – Producer: NEW GROUP
Anshul CHAUHAN – Director: TIGER
Vinod VIJAYASANKARAN – Cinematography: TIGER
Chihiro AMANO – Director: Sato and Sato
Takashi KOYAMA – Director: ALL GREENS
Hideki YOSHIJO – Producer: Night Flower
Shunsuke FUSA – Producer: TOKYO TAXI
Nippon Visions
Barbara WURM – Nippon Visions Jury
Hayley SCANLON – Nippon Visions Jury
Sachi HAMANO – Director: Kaneko Fumiko
Kuninori YAMAZAKI – Screenwriter: Kaneko Fumiko
Ami CHONG – Actor: A Unique Country in Asia
Santa IKEGAME – Director: AT THE LOVEHOTEL
Ryu YOSHIKAWA – Producer: AT THE LOVEHOTEL
Ayano KOJIMA – Actor & producer: AT THE LOVEHOTEL
Yasutomo CHIKUMA – Director: The Deepest Space in Us
Kazunari YANAGITANI – Actor: Saikai Paradise
Yokna HASEGAWA – Director: Cosmo Corpus
Yuiko AYUKAWA – Actor: Cosmo Corpus
Junko AYUKAWA – Actor: Cosmo Corpus
Isao SAKUMA – Sound: Cosmo Corpus
Yui KUSAKARI – Director: LONG NIGHT
Yoshiaki ARAI – Director: Ando
Hiroya SAKURAI – Director: The Stream
Riko MURAKAMI – Director: Faceless City
Hono KUBOCHI – Director: The Wannabeetle
Ryoko TAKAMI – Actor: The Wannabeetle
Satoshi UEMOTO – Director: Sadness and Anger
Kayoko Yoshimaru FUJITA – Producer: Sadness and Anger
Taichi NAGASAWA – Director: Mimesis
Yuria MATSUSHITA – Director: MEAN ANGEL
Yuya SHITO – Sound Design: MEAN ANGEL
Nippon Docs
Daniel RAIM – Director: The Ozu Diaries
Eric NYARI – Producer: The Ozu Diaries / Kino ohne Leinwand
Shingo OTA – Director: Numakage Public Pool
Kyoko TAKENAKA – Producer: Numakage Public Pool
Kazuhiro YAMAMOTO – Director: Tetsuyo Turned 104, Living on Her Own
Sachi OKAMOTO – Producer: Tetsuyo Turned 104, Living on Her Own
Miwa YOSHIMINE – Director: ZEN & EROS
Yumiko ASANO – Director: Yuho No Border
Tomoaki FUJINO – Producer: Yuho No Border
Reika KAMATA – Director: The Limit
Riko HIRO – Director: Guardians of the Harvest
Shiho KATAOKA – Director: ARUKU
Jun AKAGAWA – Director: The First Gale of Spring
Ryushi LINDSAY – Director: The Detective's Dream
Sybilla PATRIZIA – Director: A Color I Named Blue
Hinako KIKKAWA – Director: Mountains Are Alive
Ichiro KITAMURA – Director: Grandma's Moving Day
Nippon Animation
Thomas STELLMACH – Jury Nippon Animation Shorts Award
Waltraud GRAUSGRUBER – Jury Nippon Animation Shorts Award
Fabian DRIEHORST – Jury Nippon Animation Shorts Award
Baku KINOSHITA – Director: The Last Blossom
Yusuke HIROTA – Director: Chimney Town: Frozen in Time
Ryuya SUZUKI – Director: Jinsei
Chih-Chen HSU – Director: I
Dinora PEREIRA – Director: Towards the Sun
Jisoo KIM – Musical director: Towards the Sun
Jing WANG – Director: Hand
Masataka KIHARA – Director: Q
Nao USAMI – Director: Clean Up My Pixels
Ruihan YANG – Director: goodbye waves
Sam KUWA – Director: So He Grabbed the Knife
Takuto ITO – Director: A Small World in Your Hands
Yuya KAWASHIMA – Director: Looking for Something Lost
Akari MARU – Director: find me
Nippon Culture
U-zhaan – Nippon Live On Stage: U-zhaan x Tamaki ROY x Chinza DOPENESS
Tamaki ROY – Nippon Live On Stage: U-zhaan x Tamaki ROY x Chinza DOPENESS
Chinza DOPENESS – Nippon Live On Stage: U-zhaan x Tamaki ROY x Chinza DOPENESS
Katsura Sunshine – Rakugo: Japanese Comedy
Hikari – Nippon Live On Stage: Zenbu Kimi No Sei Da
Megumi – Nippon Live On Stage: Zenbu Kimi No Sei Da
MUKU – Nippon Live On Stage: Zenbu Kimi No Sei Da
Takumi TORIO – Nippon Live On Stage: Takumi TORIO
Kanako HORIUCHI – Nippon Live On Stage: Kanako HORIUCHI / Cooking Class: Jimami Tofu / Workshop: Ryukyu Dance / Performance: Ryukyu Dance
Midori HIRANO – Nippon Live On Stage: Midori HIRANO x Kaliber16
Markus WAMBSGANSS – Nippon Live On Stage: Midori HIRANO x Kaliber16
Marina HIRATA – Nippon Live On Stage: Shogo YOSHII x Marina HIRATA
Shogo YOSHII – Nippon Live On Stage: Shogo YOSHII x Marina HIRATA
Masako OHTA – Nippon Live On Stage: Masako OHTA
Mikiya KAISHO – Nippon Live On Stage: Mikiya KAISHO
Tomoya KAWAMURA – Performance: Ordinary / Letters From Chiran
Atsushi TAKAHASHI – Performance: Ordinary
Taro NASHIBA – Workshop: Japanese Sword Dance / Performance: Japanese Sword Dance
Maki MATSUNAGA – Performance: Japanese Sword Dance
Jörg BUTTGEREIT – EIN SUPERHEISSES DING – Der Film-Talk des Grauens
Christian FUCHS – EIN SUPERHEISSES DING – Der Film-Talk des Grauens
Marcus STIGLEGGER – Nippon Heimkino
Kai NAUMANN – Nippon Heimkino
Kazuki TAGUCHI – Exhibition: Licht und Schatten / Workshop: Washi Paper
JUMPEITAINAKA – Exhibition: Licht und Schatten
Keiko YAMAGIWA – Exhibition: Relation Shape – Visualizing Human Relationships
GOCCHANKO – Workshop: Sumo / Nippon Open Air: Sumo Wrestling / Opening Night: Sumo Wrestling
Ryoya USUHA – Workshop: Game Design
Daniel OTTO – Lecture: World War II in Japanese Animation
Thomas ASH – Panel: Documenting Reality?
Katarina SCHRÖTER – Panel: Documenting Reality?
And many more!