Daihachi Yoshida’s Taiji is coming It proved to be the big winner in the Tokyo International Film Festival’s main awards category, which was announced at a glitzy awards ceremony in the Japanese capital on Wednesday night.
Taiji is comingThe film “” adapted from the novel by the famous Japanese novelist Tsutsui Yasutaka won the highest award at the film festival – the Tokyo Grand Prix. Yoshida won the Best Director Award and star Nagatsuka Kyouzo won the Best Actor Award. This meditative film featuring black-and-white photography tells the story of a retired French literature professor (Nagatsuka) who gives a strange guest lecture and plans his ending based on when his money runs out. . Old friends and former students come to visit. On a rare trip, he meets a charming young French literature student (played by Yumi Kawai).
The Special Jury Prize of the Film Festival was awarded to Goodbye friendsan Italian Western film directed by Colombian filmmaker Ivan D. Gaona, set in 1902 at the end of the Thousand Days War. This feature film tells the story of a revolutionary soldier who received a telegram and learned that his brother’s wife was pregnant. The soldier then convinces an amateur photographer to join him in the search for his brother, and they both encounter a series of suspicious people during their journey.
The Best Actress award went to Teodora Ana Mihai and Anamaria Vartolomei, star of the Romanian drama transportation. In this film inspired by true events, Bartolome plays a Romanian couple who move to Rotterdam in search of a better life but find themselves living on the margins of Western European society. Due to extreme poverty, the couple became involved in an art robbery conspiracy.
The Festival Audience Award, voted for by public filmgoers, was awarded to the work of Chinese filmmaker Lina Yang big world. The film tells the story of a brave man with cerebral palsy who overcomes his disability to help his grandmother realize her dream of performing in a play.
The full list of winners is below.
Grand Prize/Tokyo Governor’s Award
Taiji is coming
Special Jury Award
Goodbye friends
best director
Daihachi Yoshida (Taiji is coming)
best actor
Nagatsuka Kyouzo (Taiji is coming)
best actress
Annamaria Bartolome (transportation)
Best Artistic Contribution Award
my friend Andre
Audience Award
big world
Asian Future Best Film Award
Apollo by day and Athena by night
Kurosawa Prize
Miyake Sho and Fu Tianyu
The 37th TIFF Lifetime Achievement Award
Bella Tarr
TIFF Ethical Film Award
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