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 Festival director Takeo Hisamatsu and 2017 festival ambassador Kanna Hashimoto.
 Pikachu, mascot of the  Pokemon  franchise.
 Director Naomi Kawase ( Sweet Bean ).
 Chinese actress Jiang Yiyan, co-star of the competition film  The Looming Storm .
 The four actresses chosen as 2017’s   Muses of Japanese Cinema   (from left to right): Sakura Ando, Yu Aoi, Hikari Mitsushima, and Aoi Miyazaki.
 Hirona Yamazaki, face of the “Hollywood Movie Topics” newsreel at Toho Cinemas.
 Thierry Fremaux, head of the Cannes Film Festival.
 Tommy Lee Jones, flanked by his daughter Victoria and Zhao Wei ( Shaolin Soccer ).
 Members of the International Competition Jury.
 Shota Sometani  (The Boy and the Beast)  and Hiroshi Abe  (Godzilla 2000).
    Fullmetal Alchemist    stars Tsubasa Honda and Ryosuke Yamada with director Fumihiko Sori.
 In the middle: Husband-and-wife politicians Hiroshige Seko and Kumiko Hayashi. Seko serves as Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry.
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 Oscar-winning director   Steven Soderbergh   ( Traffic ,  Ocean’s Eleven ), promoting his new film,  Logan Lucky .
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 Director Dong Yue accepting the Best Artistic Contribution award for  The Looming Storm .
 Jury member Zhao Wei preparing to announce the Best Actor award.
 Duan Yihong winning Best Actor for  The Looming Storm .
 Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike.
 Tommy Lee Jones at the closing ceremony.
 Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who roomed with Jones at Harvard.
 Gore’s environmental documentary,    An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power   , screened as the 2017 festival’s closing film.
 Festival director Takeo Hisamatsu making the closing remarks.
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 Actor Ralph Fiennes plugging his third directorial effort,    The White Crow   , at the 2018 festival.
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 Fiennes with producer Gabrielle Tana.
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 Actor Lily Franky at a screening of his Palme d’Or-winning film,  Shoplifters .
 Director Shin'ichiro Ueda at a   Halloween night   screening of his zombie comedy,    One Cut of the Dead.
 Sometime after the festival had passed, I was on the Keio Line to Shinjuku when Ueda boarded the same train car as me at Chofu Station.
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