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Tokyo Film Festival Announces Sho Miyake & Fu Tien-yu As Recipients Of Kurosawa Akira Award
The festival also announced that Japanese actor and director Takumi Saitoh will head the jury for this year’s TIFF Ethical Film Award.
The selection committee for this year’s award included Yoji Yamada, Yoko Narahashi, Saburo Kawamoto and TIFF programming director Shozo Ichiyama. Tokyo Film Festival is presenting several films which were favourites of Akira Kurosawa, whom the award is named after, including Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Time To Live, And The Time To Die and Kurosawa’s own Seven Samurai. Panellists from Palestine, Chile and Spain will discuss how film education contributes to society in the midst of social problems such as war, poverty, and refugees.
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