LOS ANGELES, United States — Hayato Mitsuishi (L), president of the Japan Film Society, and Hideaki Ibuki, director of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s Media and Content Industry Division, pose for photographs at the opening of the first annual »LA EigaFest,» a festival showcasing Japanese cinema, at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California on Nov. 11, 2011. (Kyodo)