The 14th Tokyo International Film Festival, featuring 140 movies from 24 countries and regions, starts Oct. 27 in Shibuya Ward.
Fourteen of the films will vie for the Tokyo Grand Prix and its cash prize of 5 million yen, according to organizers. A five-member international jury will also award six other prizes, including the Special Jury Prize, which pays 2 million yen.
The 14 include two Japanese movies -- "Kewaishi" ("Makeup Artist") by Mitsutoshi Tanaka and "The Lament of a Lamb" by Junji Hanado.
Canadian director Norman Jewison, who won five Academy Awards with his 1967 film "In the Heat of the Night," will serve as the jury president.
Popular U.S. actress Cameron Diaz and 51 other guests from abroad will attend.
the festival, according to the organizers, who said the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington have not affected any of their schedules.
The U.S. films to be screened at the festival have already arrived in Japan and subtitling is in progress, they said.
The special screenings section will feature 17 films, including animated works such as "Shrek" and "Atlantis: The Lost Empire." "Apocalypse Now Redux," a special version of the 1973 film by Francis Ford Coppola that is 53 minutes longer than the original, will also be shown.
Diaz is the voice of a character in "Shrek," which uses state-of-the-art computer graphics.
She was invited to attend the Tokyo film festival last year after starring in the U.S. action movie "Charlie's Angels," which was screened to close the event, but she was unable to attend.
Screenings of Disney films and other events will also be held as part of the festival, according to the organizers.
The festival -- the largest of its kind in Asia -- was first held as a biennial event from 1985 but has been put on only once a year since 1991.