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Udine’s Far East Film Festival Gives Double Prizes to Japan’s ‘Takano Tofu’

Udine's Far East Film Festival handed out two of its top prizes to Japanese melodrama 'Takano Tofu.'

Directed by Mihara Mitsuhiro, “Takano Tofu” is a melodrama about an elderly tofu-making craftsman, who is stuck in his ways but is also experimental and who is kindly, but whose stubbornness brings suffering on those around him. Two more films – Zhang’s “To Live” and the premiere of Herman Yau’s pacy crime actioner “Customs Frontline” – before a breezy festival awards session that began after 1am. The project is headed by Yamanaka Yoko who later this month premieres her second film, “Desert of Namibia,” at Cannes in the Director’s Fortnight section.

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