Chinese Herald News (Reporter Du Hailing) On November 2, the 35th Tokyo International Film Festival came to an end. Unfortunately, at this year's film festival, there were no Chinese films winning awards - no Chinese films themselves participated in the main competition unit.
The biggest winner was The Beasts, a Spanish-French co-production, which won the Golden Kirin Award and the Tokyo Governor's Award, Best Director Award and Best Actor Award.
The special prize of the judges was awarded to the Iranian film "World War III".
The Best Actress award was won by Irene, the actress of the Chilean film "1976".
The award for outstanding artistic contribution is the Sri Lankan-Italian co-production of the film "Sigh of the Peacock".
The audience award went to the Japanese film "At the Window".
The Asia Future Award was won by the Iranian film "Butterflies Only Live One Day". From its opening on October 24 to its end on November 2, a total of 169 films were released in ten days, and 59,541 people viewed the films. Among the few awards, Iranian films account for two, and Iranian films have indeed attracted attention recently.
The reporter was impressed by the closing film "The Desire to Live", which pays tribute to Japanese film master Akira Kurosawa and is a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1952 film as a story that takes place in London.
Akira Kurosawa's "Desire to Live" has a score of 9.2 on Douban. This year's story made in the UK is basically the same as that of Akira Kurosawa, but with a change of scene and characters.
Several people working in the rigid British City Citizens' Section worked under Chief William. They have a typical bureaucratic style, blaming each other among the various departments in the municipal building. A representative event was when several women came to ask for the renovation of the children's small park, because it was full of sewage and there was no place for the children to play, and this love letter was torn between the Civic Section, the Sewerage Section, and the Park Section. Everyone lives in a mechanical numb routine. There was only one young girl who was not used to this style and she had to jump ship to go to a coffee shop. Things turned around one day when William went to the doctor, who told him that he had stomach cancer and had half a year to live.
The life of the day is affected by the announcement of the rest of the life. Section Chief William gave up on himself, took his savings, absent himself from work for no reason, ran to a small hotel by the sea, met a playwright, and confided "I don't know what I have lived for all these years." The playwright took him to casinos, bars, strip clubs, and taught William to "live" with the pleasure of a dog and horse. All this still did not make William feel fulfilled, and in the bar he sang childhood children's songs and cried sadly.
After a few days of absenteeism, William returned to work in the city, met a young subordinate who had quit his job to go to a coffee shop, invited her to dinner and watched a movie—but it was not a cliché old man's survival-like romance, and he asked curiously: "Why can you live so happily?" He told the girl about his terminal illness, and at home he couldn't speak to his son and daughter-in-law despite his many practices — the habit of only shallow communication such as diet and weather prevented him from expressing his heart.
Chief William's real change came when he confronted complaints from citizens who had ignored them. After many difficult steps, he built a children's playground for the children. It was also on the swing of the children's paradise that he sang nursery rhymes to the end of his life...
In Akira Kurosawa's original "The Desire to Live", Section Chief Shimura sings a Japanese folk song: "While Usi has not yet become gray hair / While the flame of love has not yet been extinguished / Today is gone!" "The flame of love here also refers to the passion for life.