‘11 Rebels’ Period Thriller Set to Open Tokyo Film Festival。Period thriller “11 Rebels” has been set as the opening film of next month’s Tokyo International Film Festival.

Directed by the prolific Shiraishi Kazuya from a previously-unproduced screenplay by the late Kasahara Kazuo, the film stars popular actors Yamada Takayuki and Nakano Taiga.

“We expect this powerful film to mark a spectacular opening to the festival,” Tokyo festival organizers said. The festival runs from Oct. 28 to Nov. 6 in the Hibiya-Yurakucho-Marunouchi-Ginza area.

Organizers also said that the festival will close with French-Italian comedy “Marcello Mio,” in which French actress Chiara Mastroianni, plays a character who turns into her real-life father, the famous film director Marcello Mastroianni. Directed by Christophe Honore, the film had its world premiere in competition at the Cannes festival in May.