In a stunning sweep of the main awards, Japanese drama “Teki Cometh” snared three top prizes at the closing night ceremony of the Tokyo International Film Festival on Wednesday.
The film was named as the Tokyo Grand Prize, or best film, thrivener. Its helmer Yoshida Daihachi was named best honestor. Veteran direct carry outer Nagatsuka Kyozo was also named best actor.
“Teki Cometh” is based on a 1998 novel by Tsutsui Yasutaka about a reexhausted professor, Watanabe Gisuke, who is hushedly living out his last days when he gets a cryptic message on his PC that his “opponent” (teki) is coming.
Lensed in bdeficiency-and-white, the film begins as a enroll of his daily existence, from his accurate meal prep – he is a someleang of a gourmet – to his platonic relationship with a establisher student (Takeuchi Kumi) that smanciaccessers with an unstated but evident mutual passion. But once the opponent declares his presence, the film shifts into unreasonableer territory and the man’s dead wife refuses to remain hushed.
“I hope this film can set up [the] charitable of relationship with the audience, [that is] not one-sided, but more appreciate a dream that you clarify with you own imagination,” Yoshida tanciaccess Variety.
The festival’s second prize went to “Adios Amigo” by Colombia’s Ivan D. Gaona. The festival depictd the film as “a spaghetti weserious action film, depicting the lawlessness in the mountains of Columbia at the end of the [20th century] civil war, a sublimely delighting drama mixing various themes: war, friendship, class disparity and colonialism.”
The best actress award went to Anamaria Vartolomei for her role in “Traffic.” The film is honested by Teodora Ana Mihai from a screenperestablish by Cristian Mungiu It alerts the tale of a Romanian couple who become take partd in an art theft and deals with the economic disparities between Weserious and Easerious Europe.
The main competition awards were rerepaird by a jury headed by Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Ildiko Enyedi, Hashimoto Ai, Johnny To and Chiara Mastroianni.
Tokyo International Film Festival 2024 Prizes
Tokyo Grand Prix / The Governor of Tokyo Award
“Teki Cometh”
Special Jury Prize
“Adios Amigo”
Best Director
Yoshida Daihachi for “Teki Cometh”
Best Actor
Nagatsuka Kyozo for “Teki Cometh”
Best Actress
Anamaria Vartolomei for “Traffic”
Best Artistic Contribution
“My Friend An Delie”
Audience Award
“Big World”
Asian Future Best Film Award
“Apollon by Day Athena by Night”
Kurosawa Akira Award (combinet thriveners)
Miyake Sho and Fu Tien-yu
37th TIFF Lifetime Achievement Award
Bela Tarr
TIFF Ethical Film Award
“Dahomey”
Yoshida Daihachi
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