TOKYO (AP) – Helena Bonham Carter and Kichitaro Negishi were among the winners at the Tokyo International Film Festival.

Negishi’s “What the Snow Brings,” which portrays the lives of two brothers in Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, won the $100,000 Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix award Sunday for best film. Negishi and lead actor Koichi Sato also bagged top prizes.

“I wanted to portray the family, which is something of a tradition in Japanese film,” Negishi said in his acceptance speech.

Hou Hsiao Hsien, a Taiwanese director whose 1998 film, “Flowers of Shanghai,” depicts life in a 19th-century Shanghai brothel, was awarded a special prize named after Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa.

Jin Yaqin and Bonham Carter were named best actresses. The film “Conversations With Other Women,” which starred Bonham Carter, also received a special jury award.

Chinese director Zhang Yimou and “Memoirs of a Geisha” actress Kaori Momoi were among those who handed out the prizes in a glitzy finale held at Roppongi Hills, a futuristic entertainment complex in central Tokyo.

About 267,000 people attended the festival, organizers said.