Chinese director Zhang Yimou receives lifetime award at Tokyo International Film Festival
This is not his first win at the festival. He won Best Actor for the movie 'Old Well' (1986) at the second TIFF in 1987.
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This is not his first win at the festival. He won Best Actor for the movie 'Old Well' (1986) at the second TIFF in 1987.
Production incentives, the 1 billion-yen ($6.7 million) scheme is by far the largest from Japan
Zhang made his directorial debut in 1988 with Red Sorghum. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Wim Wender's Tokyo-set feature 'Perfect Days' opened the festival.
Tokyo’s International Film Festival returned this evening for its first completely unrestricted, post-COVID-19 edition with a well-attended screening of Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days. Fresh from an appearance at Thierry Frémaux’s Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, Wenders, who is also the head of the competition jury at Tokyo this year, was in attendance and introduced the …