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Kirin Kiki 树木希林 & Japanese Film Festival 2016 @ GSC Pavilion KL

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Kirin Kiki (树木希林) at Japanese Film Festival 2016 @ GSC Pavilion KL It was another year that I document Japanese Film Festival 2016 at GSC Pavilion KL . This year is much more special because there's appearance of  Kirin Kiki (树木希林) , a three-time Japanese Academy Award-winner who is considered a living legend of Japanese cinema.  Kiki Kirin/ Kirin Kiki four-decade-long career has been marked by critically acclaimed roles in such films as Kamikaze Girls ; Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me , and Sometimes Dad ; Chronicle of My Mother; and Like Father, Like Son . Earlier this year, she walked away with the  Lifetime Achievement Award at the 10th Asian Film Awards . She appears twice in this year’s JFF lineup; as the protagonist’s mother in opening film After the Storm and as the female lead in An . The first time I saw Kirin Kiki is through the movie "Kakekomi" in last year JFF . It was good to meet her in person and I gotta say she is very humble and shy at the sam