French-Japanese Comedy ‘Tokyo Crush’ Wins Series Mania Forum Best Project Award
deadline.comFrench-Japanese comedy romance series Tokyo Crush has won the Series Mania Co-Pro Pitching Sessions event. The result was announced by Series Mania founder and Director General Laurence Herszberg in the past few minutes, with the series from Clémence Dargent beating off competition from 14 others to claim the win.
The series follows Mona, a bold Parisian chef, who is hired to reinvent a struggling Tokyo izakaya (an informal Japanese drinks bar), only to be foiled by Toshiro, the talented, and annoyingly handsome, grandson of the founder, would let her.
This lands the project the Series Mania Forum Best Project Award and a check for €50,000 ($54,000). The jury was led by Studiocanal Executive Managing Director of TV Series M-K Kennedy. “After a good amount of debate, we chose Tokyo Crush because we loved the potential we saw for the story in and out of the kitchen,” said Kennedy. “It felt fresh like a series with multiple points of entry for audiences.
Featuring an ensemble of characters and conflicts that are ripe for great comedy: clash of cultures, tradition versus modernity, competition and will-they/won’t-they romance.
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