TOKYO – Chinese director Zhang Yimou was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the opening ceremony of the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) on Monday. The 73-year-old recalled in his acceptance speech that his connections to TIFF stretch back three...
Chinese film director Zhang Yimou poses at the red carpet before receiving a lifetime achievement award at the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival on Oct 23.TOKYO – Chinese director Zhang Yimou was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the opening ceremony of the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival on Monday.
“The Tokyo Film Festival was newly established 36 years ago, and I was not a director at that time,” he said. “I then returned to the festival 18 years later as the chairman of the jury.” He was referring to the 18th TIFF in 2005.“I am back to the place where I first started. This is like a cycle. This cycle is often not the end, but a new beginning,” he said.
In addition to movies, he also directed the opening and closing ceremonies of both the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Festival chairman Hiroyasu Ando declared the opening of the festival on Monday, saying: “We would like to make a further leap forward now that the Covid-19 pandemic has settled.”
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