Festival Guests
(as of May 18, 2024)
Nippon Cinema
Natsuki SETA – Director: Worlds Apart / Nippon Visions Jury
Toshiaki TOYODA – Director: Transcending Dimensions /Pornostar
Mai SAKAI – Director: CHA-CHA
Hiroshi OKUYAMA – Director: My Sunshine
Sora HOKIMOTO – Director: BAUS: The Ship’s Voyage Continues
Dai SAKO – Director: PRINCIPAL EXAMINATION
Koichi KUBODERA – Screenplay: SUPER HAPPY FOREVER
Nippon Visions
Panos KOTZATHANASIS – Nippon Visions Jury
Thomas WALDNER– Nippon Visions Jury
Kenichi UGANA – Director: The Gesuidouz /We Are Aliens
Ryota KONDO – Director: Missing Child Videotape
Kazunari ISHII – Production: Missing Child Videotape
Tsuyoshi KOBAYASHI – Production: Missing Child Videotape
Junichiro YAGI – Director: Kaiju Guy!
Masakazu KANEKO – Director: River Returns
Takuro IJICHI – Director: VICISSITUDE
Natsuka OGAWA – Production: VICISSITUDE
Shu IWAMURA – Production: Yukiko a.k.a.
Sebastian STEIN – Director: African Kung Fu Nazis II – Bum Bum!
GOCCHANKO – African Kung Fu Nazis II – Bum Bum! (Cast) / Opening Night: Sumo / Workshop: Sumo / Nippon Open Air: Sumo-Ringen
Mai NAKANISHI – Director: Confession
Aya KAWAZOE – Director: Howling
Hina SHIBATA – Director: Obscured Visions
Asuka KURIHARA – Assistant Director: Obscured Visions
Ayumu YUASA – Director: Our Voice
Jengil PARK – Director: Poems Of Flower Rain
Masashi SOGAWA – Director: Salty Blue
Ken YAZAKI – Lightning Dept.: Salty Blue
Kazunori MIURA – Director: scenario
Ryota KOYAMA – Director: Tatsumi
Ryotaro NISHI – Director: Upside-Down Genius
Nippon Docs
Shiori ITO – Director: Black Box Diaries
Eric NYARI – Production: Ainu Puri / Black Box Diaries / Wheels Of Fate: The Story Of The Rickshaw Man / HAPPYEND
Ryo TAKEBAYASHI – Director: A Big Home
Fumika FUKUDA – Production: A Big Home
Chiharu NAGAI – Production: A Big Home
Nick DWYER – Director: A Century In Sound
Hiroko KUMAGAI – Director: Being Kazue
Kayano DOI – Assistant Director: Being Kazue
Mohamed GHANEM – Director: Floating Weed
Shigeru YOSHIDA – Director: Shades Of Indigo
Nippon Animation
Kosuke HAYASHI – Art Director & Background Artist: In This Corner (And Other Corners) Of The World / Ponoc Short Films Theatre, Volume 1 – Modest Heroes / The Imaginary
Go KOGA – Director: The Birth Of Kitaro: The Mystery Of GeGeGe
Keisuke NAITO – Production: The Birth Of Kitaro: The Mystery Of GeGeGe
Nobuhiro YAMASHITA – Director: Ghost Cat Anzu / Hazy Life
Kohei SAITO – Tokyo University Of The Arts: Animation / Animations-Workshop für Kids
Nippon Culture
Takuma ISHII – Nippon Live On Stage: Takuma ISHII
Koharu MATSUNAGA – Nippon Live On Stage: CHARAN-PO-RANTAN
Momo MATSUNAGA – Nippon Live On Stage: CHARAN-PO-RANTAN
Ryoko KISO – Nippon Live On Stage: ЯeaL
Fumiha NAKANO – Nippon Live On Stage: ЯeaL
Yo TAKAZAWA – Nippon Live On Stage: ЯeaL
Eisuke TAKEBE – Nippon Live On Stage: ЯeaL
Aika YANAGIURA – Nippon Live On Stage: ЯeaL
Ichiro KATAOKA – Benshi: The Water Magician / Lecture: Japanese Shellac Records As A Source Of Japanese Studies
Goro KOYAMA – Foley Sound Workshop / Workshop: Film Sounds For Kids
NUE – Workshop: Painting Noh Masks / Nippon Open Air: Jam Session
Kozue KODAMA – Live Painting with Kozue KODAMA / Workshop: Designing Greeting Cards for Kids
Jana BALDUS – Panel Discussion: 80 Jahre Hiroshima
Steffi RICHTER – Panel Discussion: 80 Jahre Hiroshima
Daniel OTTO – Panel Discussion: 80 Jahre Hiroshima
Karin FLECK – Lecture: Analog Listening Pleasure In Japanese Films
Jasper SHARP – Lecture: Some Different Views On Japanese Cinema
Luk VAN HAUTE – Lecture: Obsessive Domestication – The Traps Of Literary Translation
Marcus STIGLEGGER – Nippon Heimkino
Kai NAUMANN – Nippon Heimkino
Jan Ove HENNIG (DJ Kabuki) – Talk: The Sound Of Ongaku Kissa
And many more!