TalkFriday 23 October 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm (UK) / 8:00pm – 9:00pm (Japan)
Shinya Tsukamoto in Conversation with Professor Alastair Phillips
Online webinar, accessible remotely via Zoom
Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
In this webinar, moderated by Professor Alastair Phillips, acclaimed filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto will discuss his latest film, Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?, which recently received the Leoncino d’Oro Award at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival. He will share insights into his work, the concepts and background behind the film’s creation, as well as the inspiration behind the work.
About the contributors
Shinya Tsukamoto
Shinya Tsukamoto (born in Tokyo in 1960) is an acclaimed filmmaker. Tetsu: The Iron Man (1989) catapulted him into the international limelight as a filmmaker with an original vision and style, and received many rave reviews and prizes. His work, which involves everything from directing to screenplays, photography and editing, has won numerous awards both domestically and internationally. Fires on the Plain (2014) and Killing (2018) were selected for competition at the 71st and 75th Venice International Film Festival respectively. In 2023, Shadow of Fire, was selected for competition in the Orizzonti section of the 80th Venice International Film Festival and won the NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film.
Alastair Phillips (moderator)
Alastair Phillips is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Warwick. He has worked for the British Film Institute (BFI) and the Edinburgh International Film Festival, is an editor of Screen, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, the BFI Film Classics series, and Bloomsbury Publishing’s Screen Studies platform. His research interests incorporate the fields of international film history, culture, and aesthetics with special emphasis on French and Japanese filmmaking, and his current projects include a BFI Classic on Yasujirō Ozu’s Tokyo Story (1953). Among his extensive publications is the recent volume The Japanese Cinema Book, co-edited with Hideaki Fujiki (London: British Film Institute, 2020).