As a part of the 2007 China-Japan Culture and Sports Exchange
Year, the second Chinese Film Festival in Yokohama will be held in
the central Japanese port city from Monday, according to
organizer.
Famous Chinese directors, including Feng Xiaogang and Zhang
Yang, are scheduled to attend the opening ceremony of the festival,
the theme of which will be "Beijing" in order to express good
wishes to the Beijing Olympic in 2008.
Six Chinese movies will be shown during the week long festival,
which will also be a section of the Beijing Culture Week organized
by Beijing and Yokohama.
Organizer said the film festival is aimed at improving Japanese
people's understanding about China, boosting Japanese youths'
interests in the Chinese culture and expanding the influence of the
Chinese film industry in overseas markets.
During the festival, some promotion footage for the Beijing
Olympic will be shown and an Olympic pictures exhibition will be
held.
Chinese films have been popular recently in Japan's pan-capital
region, with the upcoming Tokyo Film Festival having set up a
special section for Chinese films.
The Chinese Film Festival in Yokohama was first held in 2006 to
be the first formal Chinese film festival in Japan.
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(Xinhua News Agency October 20, 2007)