Tokyo Film Festival 2024 Awards: List of Winners

That of Yoshida Daihachi Teki arrives proved to be the big winner of the Tokyo International Film Festival's major award categories, revealed Wednesday evening at a glitzy ceremony in the Japanese capital.

Teki arrivesa film adaptation of a book by celebrated Japanese novelist Tsutsui Yasutaka, won the festival's top prize, the Tokyo Grand Prix, as well as best director for Yoshida and best actor for star Nagatsuka Kyozo. The meditative film, featuring monochrome cinematography, tells the story of a retired French literature professor (Nagatsuka) who gives guest lectures and plans his demise based on when his money runs out. Old friends and former students come to visit us. During one of his rare excursions, he meets an attractive young student of French literature, played by Yumi Kawai.

The special prize of the festival jury went to Adios Al Amigospaghetti western by Colombian director Ivan D. Gaona set in 1902 at the end of the Thousand Days War. The feature film tells the story of a revolutionary soldier who receives a telegram with the news of his brother's wife's pregnancy. The soldier then convinces an amateur photographer to accompany him in search of his brother, and they both encounter a series of suspicious people on their journey.

The award for best actress went to Anamaria Vartolomei, protagonist of Teodora Ana Mihai's Romanian drama Traffic. In the film, inspired by a real event, Vartolomei plays one half of a Romanian couple who move to Rotterdam for a better life, but instead find themselves living on the fringes of Western European society. Desperately poor, the couple then become embroiled in an art heist plot.

The festival's audience award, chosen based on popular vote among viewers, went to Chinese director Lina Yang Big world. The feature film tells the story of a courageous man with cerebral palsy who overcomes his disability to help his grandmother realize her dream of staging a theater show.

The full list of winners is below.

Grand Prize/Tokyo Governor's Award
Teki arrives

Special Jury Prize
Adios Al Amigo

Best director
Yoshida Daihachi (Teki arrives)

Best Actor
Nagatsuka Kyozo (Teki arrives)

Best Actress
Anamaria Vartolomei (Traffic)

Award for best artistic contribution
My friend An Delie

Audience Award
Big world

Best Asian Future Film Award
Apollo by day, Athena by night

Kurosawa Akira Award
Miyake Sho and Fu Tien-yu

37th TIFF Lifetime Achievement Award
Bela Tarr

TIFF Ethical Film Award
Dahomey

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