The 4th Annual Tokyo Food Lovers Film Festival (第4回東京ごはん映画祭)

A festival that brings together “delicious films” and “delicious food”.

おいしい映画」と「おいしいごはん」を真ん中に、みんなで繋がる映画祭

Dates:  October 12^th – 18^th, 2013
【日時】2013年10月12日（土）～10月18日（金）
Locations: Omotesando Hills and the Image Forum Theatre
【場所】12～14：表参道ヒルズ スペース オー12～18：シアター・イメージフォーラ
http://tokyogohan.com/

The Tokyo Food Lovers Film Festival is back for its fourth year with a mixture of festival favourites, classic foodie films, and some new films with a food theme.  What makes this film festival unique is that they partner with local chefs and restaurants to pair dishes with the films, making the film screenings a delight not only for the eyes and ears but also for the audience's senses of taste, smell, and touch.

Films that have shown at the festival before include the documentaries eatrip and El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, as well as the much loved indie fare Amélie and Bagdad Café.  This year sees a number of recent documentaries including heartfelt films Ten no Shizuku, Reviving Recipes, and Iranian Cookbook, not to mention the internationally acclaimed Jiro Dreams of Sushi.  There are also recent feature films such as the high school girl comedy-drama Otome no Recipe, Amole Gupte’s award-winning Stanley’s Tiffin Box (aka Stanley’s Lunch Box), and Ken Loach’s Cannes Jury Prize winner The Angel’s Share.  Other films I highly recommend are Louis Malle’s beautifully shot anarchic comedy Zazie dans le métro and Wong Kai-Wai’s dynamic Chungking Express.

This years films and their accompanying dishes:

Girl’s Recipes / Otome no recipe『乙女のレシピ』

Mitsuhiro Mihara, JAPAN, feature, 2012

Starring: Miho Kanazawa, Airi Kido, Mika Akizuki, Erena Watanabe and Mio Yuki

Dish:  Chef Okuda Original Dish

Special Guests: Chef Okuda, members of the cast

eatrip 『eatrip』

Yuri Nomura, JAPAN, documentary, 2009

Dish: Roast Chicken in a Green and Lemon Sauce

Amélie 『アメリ, 』

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, FRANCE, feature, 2001)

Starring: Audrey Tautou, André Dussollier, Mattieu Kassovitz, Rufus

Dish:  crème brûlée

Chungking Express 『恋する惑星』

 Wong Karwai, HONG KONG, feature, 1994)

Starring: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-Wair, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Valerie Chow

Dish:  Hong Kong Street Food

El Bulli: Cooking in Progress 『エル・ブリの秘密 世界一予約のとれないレストラン』

Gereon Wetzel, GERMANY, documentary, 2011)

Dish: presented by Food Creation  

Stanley’s Tiffin Box 『スタンリーのお弁当箱』

Amole Gupte, INDIA, feature, 2011

Starring: Partho A. Gupte, Numaan Sheikh, Abhishek Reddy

Dish:  Indian curry

Bagdad Café 『バグダッド・カフェ』

Percy Adlon, GERMANY/USA, feature, 1987

Starring: Marianne Sägebrecht, C.C.H. Pounder, Jack Palance

Dish: coffee and bread

Coffee and Cigarettes 『コーヒー&シガレッツ』

Jim Jarmusch, USA, feature (11 linked vignettes), 2003

Starring: Roberto Benigni, Bteve Buscemi, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits

Dish: coffee and hamburgers

Jiro Dreams of Sushi 『二郎は鮨の夢を見る』

David Gelb, USA, documentary, 2011

Featuring: Jiro Yoshino

Dish: sushi

Iranian Cookbook 『イラン式料理本』

Mohammad Shirvani, IRAN, docu-fiction, 2010

Dish: Iranian home cooking

The Angel’s Share 『天使の分け前』

Ken Loach, UK/FRANCE/BELGIUM/ITALY, feature, 2012

Starring: Paul Brannigan, John Henshaw, William Ruane, Gary Maitland

Dish: Scotch Whisky

Zazie dans le métro『地下鉄のザジ』

Louis Malle, FRANCE, feature, 1960

Starring: Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret

Dish: blue mussels steamed in wine

Dinner Rush 『ディナーラッシュ』

Bob Giraldi, USA, feature, 2000

Starring: Danny Aiello, John Rothman, Frank Bongiorno

Dish: lobster pasta

Ten no Shizuku: Tatsumi Yoshiko “Inochi no Soup”

『天のしずく　辰巳芳子“いのちのスープ”』

Atsunori Kawamura, JAPAN, documentary, 2012

Featuring: Mitsuko Kusabue

Dish: potage bonne femme (leek, potato and carrot soup)

Reviving Recipes 『よみがえりのレシピ』

Satoshi Watanabe, JAPAN, documentary, 2011

Dish: Yamagata produce

Screening times and locations on the official website: http://tokyogohan.com/