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Koji Yakusho Receives Best Actor Award at Cannes
Zahra Amir Ebrahimi (l) presents Koji Yakusho with the award for best actor for his role in the film “Perfect Days” by director Wenders. photo
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The winner in the category Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival has been honored.
Japanese actor Koji Yakusho has won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for his role in Wim Wenders’ film “Perfect Days”. This was announced by the jury in the evening. In the film, the 67-year-old plays a man who lives in Tokyo and cleans toilets.
“It came deep from my soul,” Wenders said of the film project in Cannes on Friday, while also referring to the screenplay’s co-author, Takuma Takasaki. After the premiere, many international critics wrote positively about Wenders’ film, praising its clarity and depth. Wenders created a film of “deceptive simplicity,” wrote the US magazine Hollywood Reporter, “by observing the minute details of everyday existence with such clarity, fortitude, and empathy that they build cumulative emotional power without “that you notice it”.
“It’s the last night, but all over the world filmmakers are making the cinema of tomorrow,” said presenter Chiara Mastroianni at the awards ceremony.
The Golden Camera for Best Debut Film went to Thien An Pham for Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell. The Palme d’Or for the best short film went to Flóra Anna Buda for “27”.