Japan Night at Berlinale Spotlights Projects From Emerging Directors, Producers

Variety · 2026-02-17
Japan Night at Berlinale Spotlights Projects From Emerging Directors, Producers

Japan arrived at this year’s Berlinale with nine films in selection and the wind at its back — “Demon Slayer” and “Chainsaw Man” still fresh in the box office record books, Cannes honors on the horizon. But at Monday’s Japan Night, the conversation wasn’t ab