By Yoshida Daihachi Tiki Komath The big winners of the Tokyo International Film Festival’s major awards categories were revealed at a lavish ceremony in the Japanese capital on Wednesday night.
Tiki KomathThe feature adaptation of a book by renowned Japanese novelist Tsutsui Yasutaka won the festival’s top prize, the Tokyo Grand Prix, as well as best director for Yoshida and best actor for star Nagatsuka Kyouzo. The meditative film, which features monochrome cinematography, tells the story of a retired professor of French literature (Nagatsuka) who lectures a strange visitor and plans his end based on when he runs out of money. will Old friends and former students come to visit. During one of his rare outings, he encounters an attractive young French literature student, played by Yumi Kawai.
A special jury of the festival went for the prize. Goodbye friendColombian filmmaker Ivan de Gaona’s spaghetti western set in 1902 at the end of the Thousand Days War. The feature tells the story of a revolutionary soldier who receives a telegram announcing the pregnancy of his brother’s wife. The soldier then convinces an amateur photographer to accompany him as he searches for his brother, and the two of them encounter a series of suspicious people on their journey.
The best actress award went to Anna Maria Vertolumi, star of Teodora Anna Mihai’s Romanian drama. Traffic. In the film, which is inspired by a true story, Vertolumi plays one half of a Romanian couple who move to Rotterdam for a better life, but instead find themselves living on the margins of Western European society. is Desperately poor, the couple then become embroiled in an art heist plot.
The festival’s audience prize, chosen by a popular vote of public filmmakers, went to Chinese filmmaker Lina Yang. big world. The feature tells the story of a brave man with cerebral palsy who overcomes his disability to help his grandmother realize her dream of staging a play.
The full list of winners is below.
Grand Prix/Governor of Tokyo Award
Tiki Komath
Special Jury Prize
Goodbye friend
Best director
Yoshida Daihachi (Tiki Komath)
Best Actor
Nagatsuka Kyozo (Tiki Komath)
Best Actress
Anamaria Bartolomei (Traffic)
Award for Best Artistic Contribution
My Friend Ann Daly
Audience Award
big world
Asian Future Best Film Award
Apollo by day Athena by night
Kurosawa Akira Award
Miyake Shu and Fu Tin Yu
37th TIFF Lifetime Achievement Awards
Bela Tar
TIFF Ethical Film Award
Dahomey
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