Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s “Evil Does Not Exist” and Korean blockbuster “12.12: The Day” dominated the nominations for the seventeenth version of the Asian Movie Awards. Each picked up six nominations, together with these in one of the best movie class.

The nominations had been introduced on Friday afternoon in Hong Kong, forward of a ceremony on March 10, that may return to town’s West Kowloon Cultural District and the Qiyu Centre.

The AFAs danger repeating themselves in one other means. In 2023, Korean romantic-crime drama “Determination to Go away” was probably the most nominated title, choosing up nominations in ten classes. Nevertheless it solely gained three prizes and misplaced one of the best image award to Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Automotive.”

The 2024 prizes shall be determined by a jury headed by cult Japanese director Kurosawa Kiyoshi (“Remedy,” “Pulse,” “Spouse of a Spy”). He despatched a video message to the nominations occasion and praised the AFAs for serving to with Asia’s cinematic variety.

The nominations, nevertheless, had been closely clustered amongst titles from East Asia – Korea, Japan and Better China – with just one movie from South Asia receiving a nod. That was Sri Lankan director Prasanna Vithanage’s “Paradise,” which collected 4 nominations, together with ones for greatest movie and for greatest director. One other movie to gather 4 nominations was “Snow Leopard,” by Pema Tseden, the Tibetan-Chinese language director who died final yr.

The AFAs will kick off a month of frantic movie exercise in Hong Kong. They precede Hong Kong FilMart, the largest movie rights market in Asia, and the HAF movie mission market. On the finish of the month Hong Kong Worldwide Movie Pageant will swing into motion.

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