On October 24, the closing ceremony of the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival China Film Week and the "Golden Crane Award" award ceremony were held in Tokyo, Japan. The new mainstream film "Wang Dao" created by Shanghai Film Group won the "Jury Award", director Hou Yong won the "Best Director Award", and starring Liu Ye won the "Best Actor Award".

Award-winning poster for the movie "Wang Dao"

The film "Wangdao" centers on Chen Wangdao, the first Chinese translator of "The Communist Manifesto", and tells the passionate story of a group of people who adhere to the truth and faith a hundred years ago. This time it was screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival together with 12 other outstanding domestic films. , spreading the power of new mainstream light and shadow to the world.

Director Hou Yong won the "Best Director Award" at the Golden Crane Award. Hou Yong, who is a photographer, director, screenwriter, producer and scholar, has won the Golden Rooster Award four times. This is the first time he has won the director award. In order to film "Wang Dao", Hou Yong read "The Communist Manifesto" no less than 20 times. He also used Chen Wangdao's life experience as the starting point, followed the life experience of every contemporaneous figure who intersected with him, and extended In an era, intellectual youths were looking for a way out for the country, and there were complicated scenes of ups and downs. He felt "extremely honored and surprised" for this award. The award presented to him was the Japanese director Yojiro Takita. Hou Yong said, "It was the work "The Embalmer" directed by Mr. Takita that made me understand: having a clear and pure heart is very important for the director's creation of a film. How important."

Behind-the-scenes photos of "Wang Dao", directed by Hou Yong

Liu Ye, who played Chen Wangdao in the film, won the "Best Actor Award". Liu Ye expressed his sincere gratitude to the Tokyo International Film Festival China Film Week for awarding this honor to him, and special thanks to the judges of the organizing committee for liking the film "Wang Dao". This is a huge affirmation of "Wang Dao".

"Wangdao" stills, Liu Ye plays Chen Wangdao

At the award ceremony, Kurihara Komaki, the artistic advisor of the Japan-China Film Executive Committee and a well-known Japanese film star in China, expressed his sincere wishes for the growing development of Japan-China film exchange activities. She also fondly recalled the past experience of cooperating with the famous Chinese director Xie Jin on "The Bells of Qingliang Temple".

Xu Chunping, vice president of Shanghai Film Group and producer of "Wangdao", received the "Jury Award" from Seiji Okuda, President of the Japan Film and Television Producers Association. She specifically responded to Ms. Kurihara Komaki's memories of Director Xie Jin, saying that director Xie Jin's centenary will be celebrated next month. Shanghai Film is actively preparing for the centenary commemoration of Xie Jin's birth to inherit and carry forward the "ingenuity" of director Xie Jin and other outstanding artists. The spirit of Shangying is “pursuing excellence”.

Wang Jian'er, Secretary and Chairman of the Party Committee of Shanghai Film Group and chief producer of "Wang Dao" said that "high-quality content" is the primary strategy for the development of Shanghai Film during the "14th Five-Year Plan"; Shanghai Film has gathered the "Golden Rooster Team" to create "Wang Dao" ", based on exploring Shanghai Film's "new mainstream" film style, and making bold attempts to make the main theme movies watchable. In recent years, many masterpieces have been screened at overseas film festivals and received honors. The movie "Wangdao" successfully "went abroad", demonstrated the power of Shanghai Film's new mainstream boutiques on the international stage, and promoted the main theme.

2023 is the year of deepening Shanghai Film’s “14th Five-Year Plan” premium content strategy. Shanghai Film will continue to explore the “new mainstream” style and focus on creating “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains”, “Secret Files”, “August City” and “China” in the next three years. He has 6 film and television works including "Fantasy Part 2", "Goral Flying" and "Visibility".