TIFFCOM will expand its Tokyo IP Market: Adaptation & Remake for its 2026 edition, widening a marketplace where publishers and production companies pitch Japanese stories — manga, novels, film and television remake rights — to overseas producers. The market runs October 28–30 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center Hamamatsucho-kan, according to Variety.

TIFFCOM is the content market affiliated with the Tokyo International Film Festival, jointly organized by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and Unijapan. The 2026 edition sits alongside the festival's 39th run, scheduled October 26 to November 4 across Tokyo's Hibiya, Yurakucho, Marunouchi and Ginza districts Variety.

The conference program grows to roughly 20 sessions this year, with new panels on artificial intelligence and anime. Topics span Japanese IP's overseas growth, an anime industry report, AI's role in international business, and cross-border ties with particular attention to Asian markets Variety.

The expansion builds on momentum from Cannes. In May, TIFFCOM and the Marché du Film co-organized the first Japan IP Market at the Cannes Film Market, drawing more than 700 registrants for its IP pitches and panel sessions. Japan is also designated Country of Honour for the 2026 Marché du Film, a spotlight that will feature the co-organized Japan IP Market as a new strategic gathering in Cannes, per TIFFCOM's announcement.

Back in Tokyo, the Tokyo Gap-Financing Market — TIFFCOM's project market for feature films seeking completion funding — returns for its seventh edition with roughly 20 projects selected from a larger submission pool. It operates through a co-production partnership with Frontières, the Fantasia International Film Festival's project market in Canada Variety.

The 2025 edition drew more than 4,600 industry professionals from 46 countries and regions, and realized 129 business meetings over three days through open pitches connecting Japanese rights holders with overseas producers. Those are the kind of numbers that tell you a market has found its rhythm — enough buyers, enough sellers, enough deal volume to justify widening the IP channel further.

Leadership for the 2026 edition includes Shiina Yasushi as executive adviser of Unijapan and CEO of TIFFCOM, with Ikeda Kaori as managing director of both TIFFCOM and Unijapan. Motion graphic designer and illustrator Kawakami Takashi returns to design the 2026 key visual Variety.

Visitor registration is now open, TIFFCOM confirmed via its official site. The market also offers an English-language email newsletter with updates on exhibitors, visitors and conferences.

For anyone tracking how Japanese stories reach global screens, the chain runs through rooms like these — where a manga publisher, a French producer and a streaming buyer can spend twenty minutes deciding whether a property crosses borders. TIFFCOM's bet for 2026 is that more of those conversations happen in Tokyo.