SYDNEY —

Masahiro Motoki won in the best actor category for his performance in Oscar-winning film ‘‘Okuribito’’ (Departures) at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards held on Australia’s Gold Coast overnight. APSA, now in its third year, received 37 film entries from 16 countries and territories, including Australia, Japan, South Korea and China.
   
Isao Matsuoka, former chairman of Toho Co, also received an award, which was jointly given to him by the APSA and the Paris-based FIAPF-International Federation of Film Producers Associations for outstanding achievement in film in the Asia-Pacific region. Both Motoki and Matsuoka traveled to the Gold Coast to receive their awards.
   
Multiple-award winning Australian film ‘‘Samson & Delilah,’’ produced by Kath Shelper and written and directed by Warwick Thornton, won the Best Feature Film Award for its passionate love story about two young Aboriginal children.
   
South Korea’s Kim Hye Ja won the Best Performance by an Actress Award, for her role in ‘‘Madeo’’ (Mother).
   
Some 800 people attended the awards ceremony, which saw Japanese pop star A.I. perform the feature track from ‘‘Okuribito.’’

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  wanderlust at 07:45 PM JST - 29th November

  He could have won the Best Actorist award, had it been held in Japan!

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