In the past two days, the film industry has been very busy. The 17th Asian Film Awards ceremony was held yesterday in Hong Kong, China. "Evil Does Not Exist" directed by Hamaguchi Ryusuke won the best film, Kore-eda Hirokazu won the best director for the third time with " monster ", and Yakusho Koji Kazuzu Jiang Qinqin won the Best Actor and Best Actress; Zhang Yimou won the Lifetime Achievement Award.
What helped Jiang Qinqin win the Best Actress award was the film "The World of Grass and Trees" directed by Hangzhou director Gu Xiaogang and focusing on Hangzhou Tea Mountain.
On the awards stage, after receiving the trophy, Jiang Qinqin was so excited that he burst into tears: "Thank you to the director Gu Xiaogang, he really devoted all his efforts to make this movie. Thank you to my opponent actor Wu Lei . Thank you for being willing to enter with me." This hell is also our paradise. Thank you to my friends in photography, art, music, and the team. Thank you to my alma mater, Beijing Film Academy. Thank you to movies for giving me this power. Thank you to movies for allowing me to understand life and understand myself better. Before falling in love with movies, Please love life first. Before loving life, please love people first. I love my lover Chen Jianbin . Thank you for constantly praising me, giving me encouragement, and letting me persist."
This "The World of Plants and Trees" also It was also nominated for "Best Director" and "Best Original Music". On the basis of family ties, the film adds elements of crime, and uses the current social realism theme to "try to translate" the traditional story of "Mu Lian Saves Her Mother": in order to find her father who left home for Hangzhou and has been missing for ten years, His son Mulian came to Hangzhou to study alone; in order to take care of his son who was about to graduate from college, his mother Taihua came to Hangzhou to make a living by picking tea. The originally peaceful days gradually became troubled due to the emotional change between Taihua and the tea-picking owner. Taihua accidentally fell into a fraud organization, and Mu Lian tried to save her...
Jiang Qinqin took a photo with director Gu Xiaogang and her husband Chen Jianbin ⬆️
Director Gu Xiaogang was born in Fuyang, Hangzhou. In 2019, he won the Best Director at the 13th First Youth Film Festival for his first feature film "Spring River Water Warmth". "The World of Grass and Trees" is the second volume of the "Landscape Pictures" series planned by Gu Xiaogang. The film inherits the oriental film aesthetics of the previous film "The Warmth of the Spring River" and moves from the banks of the Fuchun River in "The Warmth of the Spring River" to the West Lake Tea Mountain in the "World of Plants and Trees".
"In the first volume, we worked hard on "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains", and in the second volume, we used our efforts on 'tea'." According to Gu Xiaogang's own statement, the title of the film is actually derived from the Chinese character "tea" , that is, "people are among the grass and trees." In his view, "the grass and trees have no way to choose the land they want to grow on, and people have no way to determine their own origin. From the moment when the seeds of life fall without knowing where they are, we All we can decide is to search for the direction of the light and keep growing. As expected, we are unlucky and reincarnated as 'moss' (the mother played by Jiang Qinqin is called moss flower). Even if we are in a place where the sun does not shine, we will not lose hope. The courage to bloom. Therefore, using plants and trees as metaphors for people, the film was titled "The World of Plants and Trees." It has a hope for life and an exploration of Chinese culture."
The film was screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival on October 28 last year. premiere and will be released in mainland China soon.
It is reported that the Asian Film Awards was founded in 2007 and is the first Asian film awards hosted by the Hong Kong International Film Festival. Since 2014, it has been hosted by the Asian Film Awards Academy, which was jointly established by the three major international film festivals of Hong Kong, Busan and Tokyo. Showcasing outstanding Asian film works to the world.
Winners List
Best Movie: "Evil Does Not Exist"
Best Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu "Monster"
Best Actor: Yakusho Koji "Perfect Days"
Best Actress: Jiang Qinqin "The World of Grass and Trees"
Most Best Supporting Actor: Park Hoon "Seoul Spring"
Best Supporting Actress: Liang Yongting "Under the Sun"
Best New Director: Zhuo Yiqian "Diary of a Young Man"
Best New Actor: Teregele Baole Erdeni "City of Winds"
Best Screenplay: Wanma Tseden " Snow Leopard "
Best Editing: Kim Sang-beom "Seoul Spring"
Best Cinematography: Matthias Delph "Snow Leopard"
Best Original Music: Eiko Ishibashi "Evil Does Not Exist"
Best Style Design: Wen Nianzhong " Goldfinger "
Best Art Direction: Lin Ziqiao "Goldfinger"
Best Visual Effects: Takashi Yamazaki, Kieko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi, Tatsuji Nojima "Godzilla-1.0"
Best Sound: Natsuko Inoue "Godzilla-1.0"
Lifetime Achievement Award: Zhang Yimou
Outstanding Asian Filmmaker Award: Lee Young-ae, Suzuki Ryohei
afa New Generation Award: Zhao Liying
Asian Leap Actor Award: win metawin
2023 Highest box office Asian movie: " Azolla "
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