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‘Teki Cometh’ Takes Top Prize, Best Director & Best Actor Awards At Tokyo Film Fest
Japanese black-and-white film Teki Cometh took the top Tokyo Grand Prix prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
The film follows Watanabe Gisuke, a 77-year-old widower and retired college professor of French literature, living alone in an old Japanese-style house his grandfather had built. Chinese film My Friend An Delie, the debut feature by actor-director Dong Zijian, received the award for Best Artistic Contribution. The festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award went to prolific Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, behind works like Damnation, Sátántangó, Werckmeister Harmonies and The Turin Horse.
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