Wednesday Aug 22 5:10 PM
SEOUL (Reuters) - Director Edward Yang, who helped build Taiwan's new wave cinema of the 1980s, will be honoured posthumously with the Asian Filmmaker of the Year Award at South Korea's Pusan film festival, organisers said on Wednesday.
Yang, who died late June at the age of 59, won the best director award at Cannes in 2000 for his movie "Yi Yi (A One and a Two)", which was hailed for its masterful display of the inner workings of a middle-class Taiwanese family.
The Pusan International Film Festival, one of the largest in Asia, will hold a retrospective of Yang's works, organisers said. The festival takes place in early October.
Yang, born in Shanghai, raised in Taiwan and who lived in the United States, helped put Taiwanese film on the international map with movies such as "A Brighter Summer Day".
The award will be presented to his wife, pianist Kaili Peng, organisers said.
