A new player has arrived on the international film scene as Maboroshi, a Tokyo-based film distribution and production label, officially announced its launch at the Cannes Film Market.
The collective brings together a team of heavy hitters with established credentials spanning Asian and global cinema circles. The venture’s founding team is a lineup of industry veterans, including producers Jin Zhao, Yosuke Kikuchi, Isabel Li, and Leo Li, alongside international distributor-curator Liuying Cao and programmer-distributor Haochen Xu.
Maboroshi’s ambitious mission centers on a two-pronged strategy: bringing global cinema to Japanese audiences while simultaneously developing international co-productions with a distinctly Sino-Japanese perspective yet global outlook.
The company draws its name from a term shared by both Japanese and Chinese languages. The moniker carries philosophical weight, combining characters that represent both “illusion” and “image” — creating a conceptual tension between the tangible and elusive.
“For us, cinema is precisely that paradoxical presence: visceral yet distant,...
The collective brings together a team of heavy hitters with established credentials spanning Asian and global cinema circles. The venture’s founding team is a lineup of industry veterans, including producers Jin Zhao, Yosuke Kikuchi, Isabel Li, and Leo Li, alongside international distributor-curator Liuying Cao and programmer-distributor Haochen Xu.
Maboroshi’s ambitious mission centers on a two-pronged strategy: bringing global cinema to Japanese audiences while simultaneously developing international co-productions with a distinctly Sino-Japanese perspective yet global outlook.
The company draws its name from a term shared by both Japanese and Chinese languages. The moniker carries philosophical weight, combining characters that represent both “illusion” and “image” — creating a conceptual tension between the tangible and elusive.
“For us, cinema is precisely that paradoxical presence: visceral yet distant,...
- 5/16/2025
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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