Japan, Cannes’ Country Of Honor This Year, Brings Palme D’Or Hopefuls And New Ideas To Festival And Market: “It’s Really Exciting And Vital”

Japan is out in force in Cannes this year across the Official Selection and parallel sections as well as the Marché du Film, where it is the country of honor, with its high-profile presence continuing a long and illustrious relationship with the festival.

Kōzaburō Yoshimura’s The Tale of Genji, Kiyoshi Saeki’s Man in the Storm and Noboru Nakamura’s Nami marked Japan’s entry into the main Competition in 1952. The country clinched its first Cannes top prize — the Grand Prix, which was replaced by the Palme d’Or in 1995 — in 1954 with Teinosuke Kinugasa’s Gate of Hell.

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