Veteran Hong Kong actor Tony Leung will function the president of the worldwide competitors at this 12 months’s Tokyo Movie Competition.
“I’m immensely honored to be on the jury staff at TIFF this 12 months. Japan is near my coronary heart in additional methods than one and to be concerned in celebrating movie on this means, is an enormous deal for me,” Leung stated of this appointment this morning.
“From the age of 12, rising up in Hong Kong, I keep in mind going to see all of the traditional Japanese motion pictures from that point. These thrilling journeys to the cinema had been the beginning of an ideal love affair between Japanese movie, individuals, and its tradition for me, that has simply grown and grown. I’m already anticipating the competition to be stuffed with surprises and a whole lot of enjoyable to preside over, I’m certain. What I hope is that it will likely be a little bit of an journey, with an audacious lineup of high quality movies. I simply, ‘really feel’, with regards to judging, trusting fellow jurors’ emotions in addition to my very own, will make a constructive contribution to the choice course of.”
Leung first participated within the thirteenth Tokyo Movie Competition in 2000, when Within the Temper for Love was proven within the Particular Screening part. He subsequent visited the competition with Pink Cliff: Half 1 and he gave a masterclass finally 12 months’s version following a screening of 2046 within the World Focus part.
Leung’s intensive credit embrace l: A Metropolis of Disappointment (1989), directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Cyclo (1995), directed by Tran Anh Hung, and Lust, Warning (2007) by director Ang Lee. Leung additionally starred within the Academy Award-nominated movie Hero (2002), Infernal Affairs (2002) and Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021). In 2023, he acquired the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement on the eightieth Venice Movie Competition.
Ando Hiroyasu, Chairman of the Tokyo Movie Competition stated of Leung’s appointment: “We’re more than happy and deeply honored that Mr. Tony Leung will probably be serving as Jury President for the Worldwide Competitors at a time when TIFF is enhancing its presence as a number one movie competition in Asia. Mr. Leung, who has an illustrious profession as one of many world’s most critically lauded and internationally admired Asian actors, has participated in TIFF just a few instances prior to now and has many followers in Japan. He will probably be an ideal addition to this 12 months’s competition.
The Tokyo Movie Competition runs October 28 – Nov 6.
