{"id":2004771,"date":"2025-09-07T22:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2004771"},"modified":"2025-09-07T22:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:29:07","slug":"tokyo-junji-sakamotos-climbing-for-life-to-open-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tokyo-junji-sakamotos-climbing-for-life-to-open-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo: Junji Sakamoto\u2019s \u2018Climbing for Life\u2019 to Open Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Junji Sakamoto<\/a>\u2019s Climbing for Life has been set as the opening night film for the 38th Tokyo International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

Climbing for Life will have its world premiere on Oct. 27. The epic biopic tells the story of the late legendary Japanese female mountaineer Junko Tabei<\/a>, the first woman to ascend Mount Everest, and the first woman to complete the Seven Summits challenge, climbing the highest peak on every continent. Climbing for Life\u2018s release coincides with the 50th anniversary of Tabei summiting Everest, an event which captivated the world and made her a national hero in Japan.<\/p>\n

Fittingly, Tabei is played by beloved Japanese actress Sayuri Yoshinaga<\/a>, the winner of four best actress awards from the Japanese Academy, the most of any artist. The cast also includes Koichi Sato<\/a>, Yuki Amami<\/a> and Non (Rena N\u014dnen<\/a>) playing a younger version of Tabei.<\/p>\n

The screenplay was written by Riko Sakaguchi<\/a>, based…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Junji Sakamoto\u2019s Climbing for Life has been set as the opening night film for the 38th Tokyo International Film Festival. Climbing for Life will have its world premiere on Oct. 27. The epic biopic tells the story of the late legendary Japanese female mountaineer Junko Tabei, the first woman to ascend Mount Everest, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2004772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2004771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Tokyo-Junji-Sakamotos-\u2018Climbing-for-Life-to-Open-Festival.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}