The Tokyo Film Festival will present a Lifetime Achievement Award to veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada .

Yamada’s latest work Tokyo Taxi , based on the 2023 French film Driving Madeleine , has been selected as this year’s TIFF Centerpiece film. He will also participate in the TIFF Lounge series of talks through a conversation with Kokuho director Lee Sang-il.

Japanese actress Yoshinaga Sayuri, who has collaborated with Yamada on many films, will also receive TIFF’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She also stars in the festival’s opening film, Junji Sakamoto’s Climbing For Life , a biopic of Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei.

This year’s Tokyo festival runs October 27-November 5.

Yamada has directed 91 films over the course of his career, starting with his debut The Stranger

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