The full lineup of the 15th edition of the Tokyo international film festival, (Oct 26 to Nov 4) includes three Japanese titles out of a total 15 competition films.

The three Japanese films, which will compete for the $83,000 (Y10m) Grand Prix and the $16,000 (Y2m) Jury Prize, are Hajime Hashimoto's Another Battle / Conspiracy, Yuji Nakae's Hotel Hibiscus and Masahiko Nagasawa's The Graduation.

Another Battle / Conspiracy, the story of yakuza battles loosely based on Kinji Fukasaku's hit series Battles Without Honor Or Humanity, is the first yakuza film to be screened in competition in Tokyo. Hotel Hibiscus, about family life in Okinawa (the southern-most island in Japan), is Nakae's second feature after Navi's Love. The Graduation, a heartwarming love story, is the young director Nagasawa's third feature after Being Here and Japanese-Korean actioner, Seoul.

This year, the festival has a strong lineup of Japanese films including popular Japanese director Yojiro Takita's samurai period drama, When The Last Sword Is Drawn (Mibugishiden), the first Japanese film to be selected as the closing film in seven years.

The festival will feature a retrospective of Shaw Brothers' productions to present five films including Come Drink With Me, Hong Kong Nocturne, The Golden Lotus, Mighty Peking Man and Behind The Yellow Line. Another highlight of the event will be the Asian Film Award, in which 15 films will compete for a $8,000 (Y1m) cash prize.

Tokyo is to welcome high-profile Hollywood guests including Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg who will present the opening film, Minority Report. Other oversea guests include Kathryn Bigelow, Harrison Ford, Naomi Watts, Luc Besson and Adrian Brody.

Full line-up

In Competition

Angela
Director: Roberta Torre
Cast: Donatella Finocchiaro/Andrea Di Stefano/Mario Pupella

Another Battle / Conspiracy
Director: Hajime Hashimoto
Cast: Katsunori Takahashi/Ken Watanabe/Nenji Kobayashi

Blue Gate Crossing
Director: Yee Chih-Yen
Cast: Guey Lun-mei/Chen Po-lin

Broken Wings
Director: Nir Beregman
Cast: Orli Zilbershartz, Maya Maron, Nitai Gvirtz

City of God
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Cast: Alaxandre Rodrigues, Douglas Silva, Sue Jorge

Hotel Hibiscus
Director: Yuji Nakae
Cast: Honami Kurashita/Kimiko Yo/Tomi Taira

Marooned In Iraq
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Cast: Shahab Ebrahimi, Allah-morad Rashtian, Faegh Mohammadi

Metamorphosis
Director: Valery Fokin
Cast: Evgheny Mironov, Igor Kvasha, Tatiana Lavrova

Promised Land
Director: Jason Xenopolous
Cast: Nick Boraine, Yvonne van den Berg, Ian Roberts

SASS
Director: Carlo Rola
Cast: Ben Becker/Jurgen Vogel/Otto Sander

Skins
Director: Chris Eyre
Cast:Graham Greene, Eric Schweig, Nathaniel Arcand

Sky Lovers
Director: Jiang Qinmin
Cast: Liu Ye Don Jie Tao Hon

The Flag
Director: Nan Achnas
Cast: Havidz Khoir, Nuansa Jawadwipa, Indah R. Suprapto

The Graduation
Director: Masahiko Nagasawa
Cast: Rina Uchiyama/Shinichi Tsutsumi/Yui Natsukawa

The Wind Bird
Director: Inoka Sathyangani
Cast: Damitha Abeyrathna, Linton Semage, Janani Senanayake

Special Screenings
Minority Report
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tom Cruise/Colin Farrell/ Samantha Morton

Godzilla Against Mecha-godzilla
Director: Masaaki Tezuka
Cast: Yumiko Shaku/Shin Takuma/Akira Nakao

Jam Films
Director: George Iida/Shunji Iwai/Ryuhei Kitamura/Tetsuo Kitamura/Tetsuo Shinohara/Yukihiko Tsutsumi/Rokuro Mochizuki/Isao Yukisada

John Q
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Cast: Denzel Washington/Robert Duvall/James Woods

K-19:The Widowmaker
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: Harrison Ford/Liam Neeson/Peter Sarsgaard

Koi Ni Utaeba
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Cast: Yuka,/Naoto Takenaka/Tomoe Shinohara

Rabbit-Poof Fence
Director: Phillip Noyce

The Last Waltz
Director: Martin Scorsese

The Pianist
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Adrien Brody/Thomas Kretschmann/Frank Finlay

The Ring
Distributor: Gore Verbinski
Cast: Naomi Watts

The Rookie
Director: John Lee Hancock
Cast: Dennis Quaid/Rachel Griffiths

The Transporter
Director: Corey Yuen
Cast: Jason Statham/Qi Shu/Matt Schulze

The Wind Carpet
Director: Kamal Tabrizi
Cast: Takaaki Enoki/Yuki Kudo/Reza Kianian

When the Last Sword Is Drawn
Director: Youjiro Takita
Cast: Kiichi Nakai/Kouichi Satou

Shaw Brothers Retrospective
Come Drink With Me
Hong Kong Nocturne
The Golden Lotus
Mighty Peking Man
Behind the Yellow Line

Asia Film Award
Three dir: Kim Jee-woon
Exam dir Nasser Rafaie
Flying With One Wing dir: Asoka Handama
I Not Stupid dir: Jack Neo
Marriage Is A Crazy Thing dir: Yoo Ha
Mil-ae dir: Byun Young-joo
Mon-rak Transistor dir: Pen-ek Ratanaruang
My Life As McDull dir: Toe Yuen
Summer, Dream dir: Cheng Yu-Chieh
The Indian Family dir: Karan Johar
The Trigger dir: Alex Yang
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance dir: Park Chan-wook
Through The Night dir: Sujin Kim
Her Island, My Island dir: Itsumichi Isomura
When A Woman Changes Her Clothes At A Bus Stop dir: Masaru Konuma