Attended the closing ceremony of Tokyo IFF today -- you can read my summary of the awards handed out here. Some brief highlights from today and that'll be it for this year:
- Ichikawa Jun's wife Sachiko tearfully accepting the award for buy a suit on behalf of her late husband.
- Glad to see Vincent Cassel win best actor for Public Enemy No. 1 (see my previous post). Jury member Michael Gruskoff compared his performance to DeNiro in Raging Bull.
- During the photo slide recap of all the 15 competition titles, a short video was shown in the corner with one of the six jury members praising the merits of the film. Good idea!
- Jon Voight doing his best impersonation of Mifune in Rashomon at the post-ceremony reception. He was pretty cool through the whole festival, I think.
- Nikita Mikhalkov and Chen Kaige talking about their love for Kurosawa's work upon accepting the Akira Kurosawa Award. Mikhalkov said he drank whiskey with the master. It must've been Suntory Reserve...
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