OSAKA ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2021

Competition Jury Members

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ARIYOSHI Tsukasa (有吉司)

ARIYOSHI Tsukasa (有吉司)

Japan| Representative of the movie distribution company Magic Hour

ARIYOSHI was in charge of film programming at Tokyo Theatres Company Inc. for ten years. While there, he participated in the production of “Charisma” (カリスマ) (1999) directed by KUROSAWA Kiyoshi, and “EUREKA” (2011) directed by AOYAMA Shinji. After leaving the company, he founded Magic Hour. He has distributed the “McDull” series of Hong Kong animated films in Japan, the Iranian film “A Separation” (2011), the Filipino film “The Woman Who Left” (2016), the Danish film “Uncle” (2019), and the Vietnamese movie “ROM”, which will be screened at OAFF 2021.

KIMBARA Yuka (金原由佳)

KIMBARA Yuka (金原由佳)

Japan|Film Journalist

KIMBARA grew up in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. After graduating from Kwansei Gakuin University, she worked for a financial institution before entering the film industry. Over the past 30 years, she has interviewed more than 1,000 film directors and actors. Currently, she writes film reviews for film magazines such as "Kinema Junpo", theater pamphlets, the Asahi Shimbun, "Haha no Tomo", and others. She is also the author of "Broken Girls: Utsukushiku Kowasu Shōjo-tachi" and co-author of "Densetsu no Bijutsu Kantoku-tachi × TANEDA Yohei". She has also given numerous lectures and hosted events, including a talk on the 20th anniversary of SŌMAI Shinji's death.

SUZUKI Takuji (鈴木卓爾)

SUZUKI Takuji (鈴木卓爾)

Japan|Film Director, Actor

Born in Shizuoka in 1967. SUZUKI has directed feature-length films such as “I'm a Cat Stalker” (私は猫ストーカー) (2009), “A Wife of Kitaro” (ゲゲゲの女房) (2010), “A Band Rabbit and a Boy” (楽隊のうさぎ) (2013), “Jogingu Wataridori” (ジョギング渡り鳥) (2016), “A Message from Zon” (ゾンからのメッセージ) (2018), and “RANDEN: The Comings and Goings on a Kyoto Tram” (嵐電) (OAFF 2019 Opening Film). He has also appeared in films such as “Devotion of Suspect X” (容疑者Xの献身) (2008), “Seto Utsumi” (セトウツミ) (2016), “Aa, Koya” (あゝ、荒野) (2017), and “The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine” (菊とギロチン) (2018). He is currently an assistant professor at Department of Film Production, Kyoto University of Art and Design.