Japan’s ‘Takano Tofu’ Clinches Top Prize At Far East Film Festival Udine; Zhang Yimou Receives Lifetime Award
deadline.comAt the Far East Film Festival (FEFF) in Udine, Italy, Mitsuhiro Mihara’s Takano Tofu clinched the Golden Mulberry prize, the top honor at the festival’s audience awards.
Family drama Takano Tofu follows a father and daughter as they run a tofu shop in a small town, and stars Tatsuya Fuji and Kumiko Aso.
The title also won the Purple Mulberry Award, chosen by users of Italian film fan platform MYmovies. FEFF hosted a parallel online component through the MYmovies ONE platform, where Takano Tofu came in as the second most-streamed film after Korean film Alienoid.
Taking second prize at the audience awards was another Japanese film, Confetti, directed by Naoya Futjita. The coming-of-age film follows Yuki (played by Matsufuji Shion), who takes on female roles for his father’s traveling theater troupe.
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