{"id":2124414,"date":"2025-10-30T09:16:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2124414"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:16:21","slug":"tokyo-chairman-hiroyasu-ando-talks-festival-growth-and-competing-for-attention-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tokyo-chairman-hiroyasu-ando-talks-festival-growth-and-competing-for-attention-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo: Chairman Hiroyasu Ando Talks Festival Growth and Competing for Attention With Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the five years since Hiroyasu Ando took sole charge at the top of Tokyo International Film Festival, the progress made under the energetic octogenarian former diplomat is palpable. Despite the distinctly inauspicious start of his first full event in charge unfurling under the cloud of a global pandemic, the Tokyo festival is now generating more buzz than it has in decades.<\/p>\n

An increase in world premieres, international guests and side events, along with the relocation to the more accessible and atmospheric Hibiya-Ginza-Yurakucho districts, are helping to boost the festival\u2019s profile and clout. However, Ando<\/a> seems unwilling to rest on his laurels, determined to continue driving progress, attract more local cinemagoers and strengthen the event\u2019s impact beyond cinema.<\/p>\n

Ando sat down with The Hollywood Reporter as this year\u2019s edition was getting underway to share his thoughts on what the festival was getting right and what was still left to do.<\/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":"

In the five years since Hiroyasu Ando took sole charge at the top of Tokyo International Film Festival, the progress made under the energetic octogenarian former diplomat is palpable. Despite the distinctly inauspicious start of his first full event in charge unfurling under the cloud of a global pandemic, the Tokyo festival is now generating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2124415,"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-2124414","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\/10\/Tokyo-Chairman-Hiroyasu-Ando-Talks-Festival-Growth-and-Competing-for.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124414","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=2124414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124416,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124414\/revisions\/2124416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2124415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}