The 38th Tokyo International Film Festival will showcase a high-profile lineup headlined by two of Asia’s biggest stars: Fan Bingbing in Chong Keat Aun’s “ Mother Bhumi ” and Zhang Ziyi in Peter Ho-sun Chan’s “She Has No Name.”

Competition title “Mother Bhumi” marks a striking reinvention for Fan Bingbing, who plays a widowed village woman navigating farm work by day and employing sorcery by night to protect her community. The world premiere drama sees her confront the truth behind her husband’s death.

A high-profile gala is Peter Ho-sun Chan’s “She Has No Name,” which has previously played Cannes, Shanghai and Toronto, starring Zhang Ziyi as a Shanghai housewife accused of her husband’s grisly murder in the 1940s, with Lei Jiayin co-starring. The film revisits one of China’s mos

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