CHEN KAIGE - MIKHALKOV + CHEN RECEIVE TOP HONOUR AT TOKYO FILM FESTIVAL

Russian filmmaker NIKITA MIKHALKOV and Chinese director CHEN KAIGE will be honoured with lifetime achievement awards at the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan later this month (Oct08).
The directors will receive the high honour as recipients of the Kurosawa Award - joining former award-winners including Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg.
Mikhalkov is best known for his 1994 Oscar-winning drama Burnt by the Sun - a tale of the Stalin regime that also won the filmmaker the Grand Prix at Cannes.
Kaige's own 1993 drama Farewell My Concubine was nominated for two Oscars before winning the Cannes Palme d'Or.
The festival begins on 18 October (08).