The 35th Tokyo International Film Festival opened Monday with stars walking the red carpet for the first time since the pandemic started.
About 130 celebrities posed for photographs amid applause from fans in front of the main venue of the festival, the Tokyo Midtown Hibiya commercial complex in Chiyoda Ward.
Among the stars was Kazunari Ninomiya, the lead actor in Takahisa Zeze's "Fragments of the Last Will," the opening film making its world premiere. Ninomiya, a member of the boy band Arashi, received his big acting break with a key role in Clint Eastwood's Oscar-winning 2006 film "Letters from Iwo Jima."
