‘Teki Cometh’ Takes Top Prize, Best Director & Best Actor Awards At Tokyo Film Fest
deadline.comJapanese black-and-white film Teki Cometh took the top Tokyo Grand Prix prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival. The film also won Best Director for Yoshida Daihachi and Best Actor for Nagatsuka Kyozo.
Teki Cometh is based on a novel by Tsutsui Yasutaka. The film follows Watanabe Gisuke, a 77-year-old widower and retired college professor of French literature, living alone in an old Japanese-style house his grandfather had built.
However, one day, an unsettling message appears on his computer saying that the enemy is coming. The festival’s Special Jury Prize went to Colombian film Adios Amigo by Ivan D.
Gaona. Anamaria Vartolomei from Traffic took the Best Actress prize. Chinese film My Friend An Delie, the debut feature by actor-director Dong Zijian, received the award for Best Artistic Contribution.
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