Japanese actor Koji Yakusho, recognized for his critically acclaimed performances in movies akin to Good Days and Shall We Dance?, is to obtain the lifetime achievement honour on the 18th Asian Movie Awards.
The veteran performer will settle for the award on the ceremony in Hong Kong on March 16. As a part of a schedule of occasions related to the awards, he’ll attend a screening of Wim Wenders’ Good Days on March 15. Yakusho’s position within the movie, as a public bathroom cleaner in Tokyo, gained him the very best actor award at Cannes in 2023 and the identical honour eventually 12 months’s Japan Academy Awards and Asian Movie Awards.
It marks the third time the AFAs have bestowed their highest honour on a Japanese recipient after director Yoji Yamada in 2008 and actress Kiki Kirin in 2016.
Yakusho stated of the award: “I used to be really humbled to listen to the names of the previous recipients and located myself in awe of such distinguished figures. I really feel deeply honoured. Receiving this award motivates me to attempt for even higher work within the remaining years of my appearing profession.”
The actor, whose actual title is Koji Hashimoto, made his display screen appearing debut within the late Seventies, and rose to fame in Japan for his position because the historic determine Oda Nobunaga within the drama sequence Tokugawa Ieyasu, which ran for 50 episodes in 1983.
He grew to become additional recognized internationally for roles in a number of lauded movies within the Nineteen Nineties, together with Shohei Imamura’s Palme d’Or winner The Eel and Masayuki Suo’s Shall We Dance?, each of which earned Yakusho finest actor on the Japan Academy Awards, and for a number of collaborations with horror auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa, together with Treatment, Charisma and License To Dwell.
Within the 2000s, Yakusho started to tackle roles in worldwide options, together with Rob Marshall’s Memoirs Of A Geisha and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel. He has gained finest actor on the Japan Academy Awards 4 instances from 23 nominations.
In 2012, he was awarded a Medal with Purple Ribbon by the Japanese authorities. Together with Good Days, he has been feted by the Asian Movie Awards with the very best actor prize for 2018’s The Blood Of Wolves.
The 18th Asian Movie Awards will happen on the Xiqu Centre in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District on March 16, a day earlier than the opening of Hong Kong Filmart.
Earlier this week, it was introduced that Korean actor Jang Dong-gun and Chinese language actor Tang Wai will obtain the excellence in Asian cinema award on the ceremony. Jang has an on-screen profession of greater than 30 years and is thought for his roles in Good friend, Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of Battle and Harmful Liaisons. Tang is thought for her critically acclaimed performances in Ang Lee’s Lust, Warning, Discovering Mr. Proper, Ann Hui’s The Golden Period and extra not too long ago Park Chan-wook’s Resolution To Go away.