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\n\tJapan has dominated this yr\u2019s Asia Pacific Screen Awards<\/a> (APSA), with German filmmaker Wim Wenders<\/a>\u2019 newest Tokyo-set pic and Ryusuke Hamaguchi<\/a>\u2019s Drive My Car <\/em>follow-up taking the highest prizes.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tWenders\u2019 Cannes competitors title Perfect Days <\/em>received APSA\u2019s Best Film award, whereas Hamaguchi\u2019s enigmatic Venice title Evil Does Not Exist <\/em>nabbed the Jury Grand Prize this night on the Australian ceremony.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt is with great pleasure and pride that my Japanese producers Takuma Takasaki and Koji Yanai and myself received the news that our film Perfect Days was awarded Best Picture at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards,\u201d Wenders mentioned, accepting the award through video message.<\/p>\n \n\tHe added: \u201cWow, what an honor. Especially for a German director. The film was, in many ways, a dream come true for all of us, especially the fact that nobody less than the great Koji Yakusho played the leading role, the humble public servant, Hirayama.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tPerfect Days <\/em>tells the story of Hirayama, a bathroom cleaner who appears totally content material along with his easy life as a cleaner of bathrooms in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured on a regular basis routine, he enjoys his ardour for music and books. He loves timber and takes photographs of them. A collection of surprising encounters regularly reveals extra of his previous. The movie is Japan\u2019s submission to this yr\u2019s Best International Feature race on the Oscars.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tEvil Does Not Exist<\/em> marks the second main latest APSA win for Hamaguchi, who received greatest movie in 2021 with Drive My Car<\/em>. The pic tells the story of Takumi and his daughter Hana, who reside in Mizubiki Village, near Tokyo. Like generations earlier than them, they reside a modest life in keeping with the cycles and order of nature.<\/p>\n \n\tA plan to assemble a glamping web site close to Takumi\u2019s home, providing metropolis residents a snug \u201cescape\u201d to nature threatens to hazard each the ecological stability of the realm and the native individuals\u2019s lifestyle.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tHamaguchi wrote the screenplay for the movie, which additionally reunites him with Drive My Car <\/em>composer Eiko Ishibashi. The prize was accepted this night by producer and APSA Academy member Satoshi Takata.<\/p>\n \n\tElsewhere, Celine Song received the APSA for Best Director for her acclaimed debut Past Lives<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019m so happy and honored to receive the Best Director Award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards,\u201d Song mentioned accepting the gong. \u201cIt is very special to receive this for my very first film, and my very personal film, and it is also so meaningful to receive it from my own community. Thank you so much. It really means the world.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe APSA for Best Performance was received by Palestinian performer Mouna Hawa for her position within the Jordanian movie Inshallah a Boy<\/em>. In the debut characteristic from Amjad Al Rasheed, Hawa performs the mom of a younger daughter whose life is upturned by harsh native inheritance legal guidelines when her husband abruptly dies.<\/p>\n \n\tAccepting the gong, Hawa touched on modern points. She mentioned: \u201cIn these times, a film like Inshallah a Boy<\/em> that dares to question our entire reality is essential not only for educating people and making them think but also gives us a voice in times where we simply can\u2019t speak. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThis yr\u2019s worldwide APSA jury, which picks the winners for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Performance, and the Jury Grand Prize, included Clara Law (Australia) \u2013 Jury President, Anna Katchko (Germany), Yeo Yann Yann, (Malaysia), Hideho Urata (Japan, Singapore), and Faisal Baltyuor (Saudi Arabia). <\/p>\n \n\tCheck out the total record of winners under<\/strong>: <\/p>\n \n\tBEST FILM \n\t \n\tEvil Does Not Exist (Aku Wa Sonzai Shinai) \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\tAibar Saly and Alisher Ismailov for Brothers (Bratya) \n\t \n\t \n\t [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] Japan has dominated this yr\u2019s Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), with German filmmaker Wim Wenders\u2019 newest Tokyo-set pic and Ryusuke Hamaguchi\u2019s Drive My Car follow-up taking the highest prizes.\u00a0 Wenders\u2019 Cannes competitors title Perfect Days received APSA\u2019s Best Film award, whereas Hamaguchi\u2019s enigmatic Venice title Evil Does Not Exist nabbed the Jury Grand Prize […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-112473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Perfect Days
Japan
Directed by Wim Wenders
Produced by Wim Wenders, Takuma Takasaki, Koji Yanai<\/p>\n
JURY GRAND PRIZE<\/p>\n
Japan
Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Produced by Satoshi Takata<\/p>\n
BEST YOUTH FILM
Bauryna Salu
Kazakhstan
Directed by Askhat Kuchinchirekov
Produced by Askhat Kuchinchirekov, Anna Katchko<\/p>\n
BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Siren (La Sir\u00e8ne)
France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium
Directed by Sepideh Farsi
Produced by S\u00e9bastien Onomo<\/p>\n
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
Against the Tide
India, France
Directed by Sarvnik Kaur
Produced by Koval Bhatia, Sarvnik Kaur<\/p>\n
BEST DIRECTOR\u202f
Celine Song for Past Lives
Republic of Korea, United States<\/p>\n
BEST SCREENPLAY
Anthony Shim for Riceboy Sleeps
Canada, Republic of Korea<\/p>\n
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY\u202f
Azamat Dulatov for Qas
Kazakhstan<\/p>\n
Special Mention for CINEMATOGRAPHY\u202f
Krum Rodriguez for Citizen Saint (Mokalake
Tsmindani)
Georgia, France, Bulgaria<\/p>\n
BEST PERFORMANCE\u202f
Mouna Hawa for Inshallah a Boy (Inshallah Walad)
Jordan, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar<\/p>\n
BEST NEW PERFORMER<\/p>\n
Kazakhstan<\/p>\n
CULTURAL DIVERSITY AWARD
Rapture (Rimdogittanga)
India, People\u2019s Republic of China, Qatar, Switzerland, Netherlands
Directed by Dominic Megam Sangma
Produced by Xu Jianshang, Eva Gunme R Marak, Anu Rangachar, Sun Li, Harsh Agarwal, Aditya Grover, Stephen
Zacharias<\/p>\n
YOUNG CINEMA AWARD
Ph\u1ea1m Thi\u00ean \u00c2n for Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (B\u00ean Trong V\u1ecf K\u00e9n V\u00e0ng)
Vietnam, Singapore, France, Spain<\/p>\n
FIAPF AWARD for Outstanding Contribution to Asia Pacific Cinema
Jeremy Chua
Singapore<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n