Duan, Best Actor at Tokyo festival, modest after win
TOKYO: Chinese actor Duan Yihong, 44, has just won the Best Actor Award, but he remains modest.
Said Duan during the Tokyo International Film Festival: “Till today I still feel that my acting is limited. But I am happy because I have not exhausted my acting yet and I can carry on. Stories and humanity are infinite, and that is my source of happiness in being an actor. This award is the extension of my happiness.”
Duan had starred in The Looming Storm, the only Chinese film in competition during the festival, the 30th in the series.
The movie also won the Best Artistic Contribution Award for first-time director Dong Yue.
The plot is about Yu, a selfassured factory guard, who puts himself into the role of a detective to start investigating a murder, only to end up finding himself in trouble.
According to jury member Zhao Wei, the jury panel had “quickly and unanimously” made the decision. The Best Actress Award went to Adleline D’Hermy for her performance in France’s Maryline.
Turkey’s Grain, a monochrome, dystopian sci-fi film, won the festival’s top award the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix and its director Semih Kaplanoglu was awarded the US$ 50,000 prize.
Kaplanoglu directed, wrote and produced the film all by himself.
Tokyo-based Malaysian director Edmund Yeo had snatched the Best Director Award for his film Aqerat, or We the Dead.
Italy’s Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino won the special jury prize and US$ 20,000 for their film Crater, while native director Akiko Ohku won the audience award and US$ 10,000 for Tremble All You Want.
Till today I still feel that my acting is limited. But I am happy because I have not exhausted my acting yet and I can carry on. Stories and humanity are infinite, and that is my source of happiness in being an actor. This award is the extension of my happiness. Duan Yihong, award-winning actor