"Tokyo Sonata" takes home top prize at Osian's Cinefan Festival

by Chris MaGee

First Kiyoshi Kurosawa took home the Une Certain Regard Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and now there’s word that his story of a family with too many secret to hide has taken home the top prize at the 10 Annual Osian’s Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema. Congratulations again to Kurosawa-san and his cast and crew!

All I can say is with this win my excitement level about “Tokyo Sonata” coming to this year’s TIFF has just gone waaaayyyy up. Even though Kurosawa has always had a reputation as being one of Japan's premier filmmakers that with his recent shift to straight drama achieving such acclaim that he's on the verge of joining Ozu, Mizoguchi and that other Kurosawa as one of Japanese cinema's greats.

Check out all the winners at Variety Asia Online.