10th Asian Film Award - ASANO wins Best Supporting and KIKI receives Lifetime Achievement Awards

Tadanobu ASANO wins Best Supporting Actor Award and

Kirin KIKI receives Lifetime Achievement Award

at the10th Asian Film Awards

Organized by the Tokyo, Busan and Hong Kong International Film Festivals

The 10th annual Asian Film Awards (AFA) took place at the Venetian Theatre in the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, Thursday, March 17, 2016. The awards ceremony is hosted every year by the Asian Film Awards Academy (AFAA), which consists of three major international film festivals in Asia, the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), the Busan International Film Festival and the Hong Kong International Film Festival. AFAA announced the winners and presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Japanese actress Kirin KIKI and Hong Kong action choreographer-director YUEN Wo-ping at the AFA Ceremony.

Many nominees from Japan were on hand for the event, including director Hirokazu KORE-EDA (Our Little Sister), Ryosuke HASHIGUCHI (Three Stories of Love), actor Masatoshi NAGASE, actor Tadanobu ASANO and actress Ryoko FUJINO.

ASANO won the Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in Journey To The Shore, and expressed his happiness and thanks in English from the stage.

Kirin KIKI received her Lifetime Achievement Award from director Hirokazu KORE-EDA, with whom she has frequently worked, and delivered a short speech.

The Best Film Award was given to The Assassin, directed by HOU Hsiao-Hsien. For the full winners list, please refer to the next page.

The 10th AFA attracted participants from all over Asia, and was a great success.

For details, please click the below link to obtain the press release dated 2016.3.18.
https://www.tiff-jp.net/pr/category/press-release-en/

For photos, please click the below URL to start downloading 15.3MB zip folder.
http://2015.tiff-jp.net/download/2016_AFA/10th_AFA_Photo.zip
 

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