Once again plenty of Japanese directors were present in Rotterdam for the ""Film Festival"".
This year had two retrospectives (Yoshida Kiju and Sai Yoichi), two Tiger Award candidates (Inoue Tsuki and Tsubota Yoshifumi), Kore-Eda Hirokazu (joined by Taneda Yohei, production designer on his ""Air Doll""), Shiraishi Kazuya, Ishii Yuya, Iwana Masaki, Mariko Tetsuya, Makino Takashi and several other short film directors.
As usual I did Q&A's at the screenings and als interpreted for the ""Big Talk"" with Kore-Eda and Taneda, conducted by festival director Rutger Wolfson.