Tony Leung will function the president of the worldwide competitors jury on the thirty seventh Tokyo Worldwide Movie Competition, organizers introduced on Friday.
The Hong Kong performing icon, who gave a masterclass on the pageant final yr, will return to Tokyo to go up a jury that will probably be introduced at a later date. Leung has a protracted historical past with Tokyo Movie Competition and had attended the occasion for the screening of his 2013 movie The Grandmaster.
Leung is broadly thought of one of many biggest actors Asia has produced. Greatest recognized globally for his work with Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-wai, the pair have labored on seven movies collectively — Days of Being Wild (1990), Chungking Categorical (1994), Ashes of Time (1994), Comfortable Collectively (1997), Within the Temper for Love (2000), 2046 (2004), and The Grandmaster (2013). Leung has additionally starred in three movies — A Metropolis of Unhappiness (1989), Cyclo (1995) and Lust, Warning (2007) — which have gained the Golden Lion prize on the Venice Movie Competition and in 2023 he was awarded Venice’s Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.
“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 pageant in Asia,” Ando Hiroyasu, chairman of Tokyo Movie Competition, stated in an announcement. “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 a number of instances prior to now and has many followers in Japan.”
“I’m immensely honoured to be on the jury group at TIFF this yr. Japan is near my coronary heart in additional methods than one and to be concerned in celebrating movie on this method, is a giant deal for me,” Leung stated in an announcement. “From the age of 12, rising up in Hong Kong, I bear in mind going to see all of the traditional Japanese films from that point. These thrilling journeys to the cinema have 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 pageant to be stuffed with surprises and loads of enjoyable to preside over, I’m positive. What I hope is that will probably be a little bit of an journey, with an audacious line-up of high quality movies. I simply, ‘really feel’, on the subject of judging, trusting fellow jurors’ emotions in addition to my very own, will make a constructive contribution to the choice course of.”
The 2024 Tokyo Movie Competition runs Oct. 28 by means of Nov. 6.