Tokyo Worldwide Movie Competition (TIFF) will honour Japanese filmmaker Sho Miyake and Taiwanese director Fu Tien-yu with the Kurosawa Akira Award at its upcoming 37th version (October 28 to November 6).
The award is offered to filmmakers who’ve “made waves in cinema and are anticipated to assist information the trade’s future”. A ceremony to current the awards might be held on the Imperial Resort Tokyo on November 5.
Miyake, whose 2012 directorial debut Playback performed in competitors on the Locarno Movie Competition, received reward from the choice committee for his latest humanist movies Small, Gradual However Regular and All The Lengthy Nights, which screened on the Berlinale in 2022 and 2024 respecitvely.
Fu started her profession as a novelist earlier than making her directorial debut with Someplace I Have By no means Travelled in 2009. Her most up-to-date movie, Day Off picked up awards at Osaka Asian Movie Competition, Golden Horse Movie Competition and Udine’s Far East Movie Competition in 2023. The committee cited Fu as persevering with the traditions of Taiwan New Cinema.
The 2024 choice committee members comprised director Yoji Yamada, casting director Yoko Narahashi, critic Saburo Kawamoto and TIFF programming director Shozo Ichiyama.
The Kurosawa Akira Award was revived by the competition in 2022 after an absence of 14 years.
TIFF has additionally revealed that the jury for its Moral Movie Award might be helmed by actor and director Takumi Saitoh. The award, established final yr, might be offered to a movie that “raises consciousness of social points such because the atmosphere, poverty and discrimination and understanding of variety”. In 2023, the award went to Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s 20,000 Species of Bees.
Saitoh is understood for his performances in Shin Ultraman and The Queen of Villains. His sophomore movie as director, Dwelling Candy Dwelling, debuted eventually yr’s Shanghai Worldwide Movie Competition. Saitoh can be identified for volunteer actions equivalent to working a cell cinema for catastrophe areas and establishing daycare amenities on movie units.
As well as, TIFF has introduced its second annual Worldwide Symposium on Movie Schooling, by which panellists from all over the world focus on how movie training contributes to societies going through issues equivalent to warfare, poverty and refugee crises. It’ll happen on November 2 on the Nationwide Movie Archive of Japan.
