Festival Guests
(as of June 7, 2023)
Nippon Cinema
Toko MIURA (Actress Drive My Car / I Am What I Am / Mountain Woman / Our Huff And Puff Journey)
Daishi MATSUNAGA (Director Egoist / Nippon Visions Jury)
Mitsuo HARADA (Producer Okiku And The World)
Mizuki HATA (Assistant producer Okiku And The World)
Miyuki TAKAMATSU (Distributor Okiku And The World)
Hugo SAKAMOTO (Director Baby Assassins / Baby Assassins 2 Babies)
Yusuke SUZUKI (Producer Baby Assassins / Baby Assassins 2 Babies)
Ryo TAKEBAYASHI (Director Mondays: See You “This” Week!)
Jo KOBAYASHI BELLAMY (Cutter Mondays: See You “This” Week!)
Takeshi FUKUNAGA (Director Mountain Woman)
Eric NYARI (Producer Mountain Woman)
Emma KAWAWADA (Director My Small Land)
Rika KATSU (Directorin Spring In Between)
Masaaki KUDO (Director A Far Shore)
Keiko FUNATO (Distributor A Far Shore)
Nippon Visions
Karen SEVERNS (Nippon Visions Jury)
Claudia Bertolé (Nippon Visions Jury / Lecture: Moving Characters – From The Suburbs To The City And Beyond)
Kah Wai LIM (Director Your Lovely Smile)
Shogo KIRIU (Director Journey)
Takeshi KAMEI (Director VATA)
Henri SERVOMAA (Staff VATA)
Kyusaku ICHIDA (Director Farewell Wedding Dress, Until We Meet Again / Nippon Shorts I: Family & Romance)
Keitaro FUJIMORI (Director Shagiri / Nippon Shorts II: Ghosts & Strangers)
Terukazu KANDA (Producer Shagiri / Nippon Shorts II: Ghosts & Strangers)
Yasuharu SOSHI (Director They Are/Were Watching / Nippon Shorts II: Ghosts & Strangers)
Kaori TSUBAKI (Actor They Are/Were Watching / Nippon Shorts II: Ghosts & Strangers)
Takeshi SONE (Cinematographer They Are/Were Watching / Nippon Shorts II: Ghosts & Strangers)
Kristina LIZOGUB (Subtitling Light Changes) and Asastasiia HRYTSAI (Subtitling Exposure) (JVTA Meets PIA Film Festival: Shorts)
Nippon Animation
Yusuke HIROTA (Director Poupelle Of Chimney Town)
Ryoichi FUKUYAMA (Producer Poupelle Of Chimney Town)
Sayaka OMODAKA (Tokyo University Of The Arts: Animation Shorts)
Nippon Docs
Taku AOYAGI (Director Tokyo Uber Blues)
Fumiari HYUGA (Director I Am A Comedian)
Mizuko YAMAOKA (Directorin Maelstrom)
Sungwoong KIM (Director My Anniversaries)
Kasumi SHONO (Assistant Director My Anniversaries)
Daniel LÓPEZ (Director UMUI – Guardians Of Traditions)
Tomoya OGOSHI (Producer UMUI – Guardians Of Traditions)
Nippon Culture
TsuShiMaMiRe (Nippon Live On Stage: TsuShiMaMiRe)
Takeo ISCHI (Nippon Live On Stage: Master Yodeler Takeo ISCHI)
Mitsune (Nippon Live On Stage: Mitsune)
Yoshiaki OKAWA (Nippon Live On Stage: Yoshiaki OKAWA (kotomen))
Su Bunjamin (Nippon Live On Stage: Music From Okinawa / Workshop: Shamisen)
Santi Bunjamin (Nippon Live On Stage: Music From Okinawa / Workshop: Shamisen)
Satomi ICHIKAWA (Das Tomatenfest)
Lanka ABE (Workshop: Shodo – The Way of Writing / Nippon Open Air: Shodo-Performance / Shodo Workshop For Kids)
Yuriko MIYOSHI (Workshop: Mokuhanga Woodblock Printing / Woodblock Printing Workshop For Kids)
Jumpei TAINAKA (Photo Exhibition: Nowhere, But Now Here)
Stefan RIEKELES (Lecture: Anime Architecture)
Ursula Gräfe (Panel Discussion: The World Of Cat Literature)
Rena KATO (Nippon Open Air: Rena KATO)
Iroha NAKACHI (Performance: Lion Dance From Okinawa)
Kozue FURUNO (Performance: Lion Dance From Okinawa)
Naofumi URASAKI (Performance: Lion Dance From Okinawa)
Takuya SHIMABUKURO (Performance: Lion Dance From Okinawa)
Ruy López (Performance: Lion Dance From Okinawa)
Yu ZAKIMI (Performance: Lion Dance From Okinawa)
Kai NAUMANN (Nippon Heimkino)
Marcus STIGLEGGER (Nippon Heimkino)
Naoko UCHIMA (Lecture: Okinawa Connection)
Luk VAN HAUTE (Film Talk: Toko MIURA / Film Introductions NIPPON RETRO)
and many more