Yoshida Daihachi’s Teki Cometh showd to be the huge triumphner of the Tokyo International Film Festival’s convey inant awards categories that were uncignoreed Wednesday night at a glitzy ceremony in the Japanese capital.
Teki Cometh, a feature alteration of a book by commemorated Japanese noveenumerate Tsutsui Yasutaka, won the festival’s top prize, the Tokyo Grand Prix, as well as the best straightforwardor honor for Yoshida and the best actor award for star Nagatsuka Kyozo. The meditative film, featuring monochrome cinematography, inestablishs the story of a reweary professor of French literature (Nagatsuka) who gives the odd guest lecture and schedules his own finish based on when his money will run out. Old frifinishs and establisher students come to visit. During one of his exceptional excursions, he come apasss an attrenergetic lesser French literature student, joined by Yumi Kawai.
The festival’s exceptional jury prize went to Adios Al Amigo, Colombian filmproducer Ivan D. Gaona’s spaghetti weserious set in 1902 at the finish of the Thousand Days War. The feature inestablishs the story of a revolutionary sbetterier who gets a telegram with the novels of the pregnancy of his brother’s wife. The sbetterier then sways an amateur pboilingographer to come with him as he searches for his brother, and they both come apass a series of doubtful people on their journey.
The best actress prize went to Anamaria Vartolomei, the star of Teodora Ana Mihai’s Romanian drama Traffic. In the film, which is encouraged by a authentic event, Vartolomei joins one half of a Romanian couple who shift to Rotterdam for a better life, but instead find themselves living at the margins of Weserious European society. Desperately lower, the couple then get embroiled in an art heist plot.
The festival’s audience prize, picked by well-understandn vote among uncover filmgoers, went to Chinese filmproducer Lina Yang’s Big World. The feature inestablishs the tale of a brave man with cerebral palsy who conquers his disability to help his magnificentmother authenticize her dream to stage a join.
Full triumphners enumerate is below.
Grand Prix/The Governor of Tokyo Award
Teki Cometh
Special Jury Prize
Adios Al Amigo
Best Director
Yoshida Daihachi (Teki Cometh)
Best Actor
Nagatsuka Kyozo (Teki Cometh)
Best Actress
Anamaria Vartolomei (Traffic)
Award for Best Artistic Contribution
My Frifinish An Delie
Audience Award
Big World
Asian Future Best Film Award
Apollon by Day Athena by Night
Kurosawa Akira Award
Miyake Sho and Fu Tien-yu
37th TIFF Lifetime Achievement Award
Bela Tarr
TIFF Ethical Film Award
Dahomey
