TIFF awards

[Rob Schwartz]

Yes, at the closing party Yanagimachi-san said the same thing to me.

I think the decision was a travesty, The film is a parody of 50s spy,
it's nice but not an award winning film. I am bitterly disappointed.

Where did Yanagimachi-san announce he was against the decision?

rob schwartz


On 10/29/06, Eija Niskanen <eija.niskanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> At the press conference for the awards the jury president Jean-Pierre
> Jeunet told the press that the jury was one-minded when deciding the
> Sakura Grand Prix award winner (OSS117: Cairo Nest of Spies), but
> interestingly Yanagimachi Mitsuo announced that he was actually
> against the decision, but that it was a majority vote 5-1.
>
> Eija
>
> On 10/29/06, Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote:
> > The TIFF site already list the awards given out today. It usually seems
> > that the TIFF jury will hand out at least one consolation award to a
> > Japanese film in the Competition, but this was not the case this year.
> > The only Japanese film to win any Japanese award was Hiroki Ryuichi's M
> > in the Japanese Eyes section, which earned a special award for its
> > actor, Kora Kengo. What won the film prize for Japanese Eyes was in
> > fact a documentary made by Linda Hattendorf, The Cats of Mirikitani. It
> > might not be a pure Japanese film, but my congratulations go out to
> > Yoshikawa Masa, the producer of that film who has helped out at a
> > number of Kinema Club events.
> >
> > Aaron Gerow
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