VIDEO : Meryl Streep Joins Shinzo Abe on the Red Carpet at Tokyo Film Festival

Oscar winner Meryl Streep joined the star-struck Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe on the red carpet on Tuesday as the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival got under way. "This red carpet is a lot more exciting than the red carpet at the parliament building," said Prime Minister Abe, who admitted to having watched many of Streep's films. Abe said he particularly enjoyed Streep's portrayal of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady" a film which he said "left a very deep impression on me", and for which Streep won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2012. (Reporting by Reuters Television; Writing by Adela Suliman; Editing by Tom Heneghan)