Yoshida Daihachi’s Teki Cometh showd to be the huge triumphner of the Tokyo International Film Festival’s meaningful awards categories that were uncovered 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 honestor honor for Yoshida and the best actor award for star Nagatsuka Kyozo. The meditative film, featuring monochrome cinematography, tells the story of a reexhausted professor of French literature (Nagatsuka) who gives the odd guest lecture and arranges his own finish based on when his money will run out. Old frifinishs and createer students come to visit. During one of his exceptional excursions, he encounters an attrdynamic juvenileer French literature student, take parted by Yumi Kawai.
The festival’s one-of-a-kind jury prize went to Adios Al Amigo, Colombian filmcreater Ivan D. Gaona’s spaghetti westrict set in 1902 at the finish of the Thousand Days War. The feature tells the story of a revolutionary sgreaterier who achieves a telegram with the news of the pregnancy of his brother’s wife. The sgreaterier then secures an amateur ptoastyographer to come with him as he searches for his brother, and they both encounter a series of skeptical 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 take parts one half of a Romanian couple who transfer to Rotterdam for a better life, but instead find themselves living at the margins of Westrict European society. Desperately lower, the couple then get embroiled in an art heist plot.
The festival’s audience prize, picked by famous vote among unveil filmgoers, went to Chinese filmcreater Lina Yang’s Big World. The feature tells the tale of a valiant man with cerebral palsy who defeats his disability to help his magnificentmother authenticize her dream to stage a take part.
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
