The Tokyo International Film Festival unveiled the lineup on Wednesday for its 38th edition, running October 27 to November 5, and the main competition promises a typically eclectic mix of Asian auteurs, international arthouse stalwarts and new discoveries.

Malaysian-Chinese filmmaker Chong Keat Aun’s Mother Bhumi , starring Fan Bingbing in a reinvention of her screen persona, will compete alongside Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s psychological thriller Morte Cucina , shot by Christopher Doyle and featuring Japanese star Tadanobu Asano. Hungarian iconoclast György Pálfi brings Hen , an allegorical fable about a runaway chicken that exposes layers of human absurdity, while veteran Cambodian documentarian Rithy Panh returns with We Are the Fruits of the Forest , a four-year chronicle of ethn

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