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Tokyo International Film Festival
Oct 26 – Nov 4, 2026ConfirmedTokyo International Film Festival 2026
Run by Tokyo International Film Festival, with published dates and a real program.
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Why go
The Tokyo International Film Festival is the only Japanese festival accredited by FIAPF, the body that ranks the world's major competitive film festivals, and it sits second in Asia only to Shanghai in scale. It gives festival-goers something the bigger European festivals rarely do: a genuine, deep pipeline into Japanese and wider Asian cinema, screened in a city with the infrastructure and film culture to support it properly, alongside a real shot at premieres and industry access through its affiliated content market. For a traveler who wants to combine a major film festival with a first (or repeat) trip to Tokyo, it is a rare case where the destination and the event are equally the draw.
When it runs
The festival runs for about ten days in late October or early November each year
- Oct 26 – Nov 4, 2026ConfirmedTokyo International Film Festival 2026
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What to expect
The festival runs for about ten days in late October or early November each year, landing during Tokyo's most comfortable travel season: mild temperatures, low humidity, and past the summer typhoon risk window. Screening venues cluster around the Hibiya/Ginza and Roppongi areas, both easy to reach by train.
Getting there & around
Fly into either Narita (NRT) or Haneda (HND); Haneda is closer to central Tokyo. Individual screening tickets go on sale roughly two to three weeks before the festival opens and popular titles sell out within hours, so it is worth setting up an account on the festival's ticketing platform ahead of time. Accreditation passes for industry and press are a separate, earlier application process through the official site.
Where it happens
Tokyo, Japan.
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