[1] American writer-director Julie Taymor served as jury president.

[2] With The Beasts winning the Tokyo Grand Prix, the festival's top prize, Rodrigo Sorogoyen became the second Spanish director to achieve the prize, after Alejandro Amenábar in 1998.

The official poster for the festival was created by fashion designer Koshino Junko and is intended to represent "the theme of leaping forward" and the "creative explosion" in the film and fashion industries after the COVID-19 pandemic.

[6] The following films were selected to compete for the Tokyo Grand Prix.

The following films were selected for the Japanese Animation section.