Japanese films finishes runnerup at Cannes

In France, big film festival, the Cannes Film Festival was opened, then Japanese film got great award in the year, 60th anniversary of Cannes. This time, the film of top award was "4 Months , 3 Weeks and 2 Days" by Romanian, Christian Mungiu, on the other hand, "Mogari no Mori" by Japanese director, Naomi Kawase won Grand Prix which follows top prize in the Cannes. On the whole, in this year's Cannes, low-budget films and made by not well-known but unknown directors films were outstanding. Then a jury who chose good movies with other members in competition said that the movie was selected as a valuable one would give good stimulation to future films.

Reference: The Japan Times, May 29, "Japanese films finishes runnerup at Cannes"