The 38th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) 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,’ reported Variety.

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 on

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