{"id":21814,"date":"2026-05-13T16:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/21814\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:11:10","slug":"japan-cannes-classics-screen-as-part-of-country-of-honor-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/21814\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Cannes Classics Screen as Part of Country of Honor Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFour Japanese films that each competed at the Cannes Film Festival<\/a> will screen on May 16 as part of Japan<\/a>\u2018s Country of Honor program at the Cannes Film Market<\/a>, spanning 36 years of the country\u2019s Cannes history.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lineup opens with Ichikawa Kon\u2019s \u201cHer Brother\u201d (1960), which was selected for competition at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. The film follows the relationship between a strong-willed older sister and a younger brother who, starved of affection amid a difficult family dynamic, slides toward delinquency. Starring Kishi Keiko and Kawaguchi Hiroshi, with cinematography by Miyagawa Kazuo, the film is held by Kadokawa Corp.<\/p>\n

\n\tKobayashi Masaki\u2019s \u201cKwaidan\u201d (1965) follows, the anthology film that won the Special Jury Prize at the 18th Cannes Film Festival. It adapts four supernatural tales drawn from the ghost story collections of Lafcadio Hearn, and is noted for its elaborate production design. Nakadai Tatsuya lead the cast in a work that also received an Academy Award nomination in the category that was then known as the best foreign-language film.<\/p>\n

\n\tImamura Shohei<\/a>\u2018s \u201cBlack Rain\u201d (1989), selected for competition at the 42nd Cannes Film Festival, brings the program into the postwar era. Set five years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the film follows a young woman and her uncle as they contend with the community\u2019s lasting physical and psychological wounds, and the stigma that blocks her prospects for marriage.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe screening day closes with Imamura\u2019s \u201cThe Eel\u201d (1997), winner of the Palme d\u2019Or at the 50th Cannes Film Festival \u2014 a prize the director shared that year with Abbas Kiarostami\u2019s \u201cTaste of Cherry.\u201d Starring Yakusho Koji, the film follows a man released on parole after killing his unfaithful wife. He retreats from human contact and opens a barbershop, until a chance encounter with a woman he saves from suicide begins to draw him back toward society.<\/p>\n

\n\tImamura\u2019s double presence in the program \u2014 with both a competition title and the festival\u2019s top prize \u2014 gives the lineup particular weight. The Japan Screening Day forms part of a broader Country of Honor program that includes an industry summit, the Japan IP Market and a series of conferences running throughout the market through May 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four Japanese films that each competed at the Cannes Film Festival will screen on May 16 as part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5090,3263,17238,8,33],"class_list":{"0":"post-21814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-cannes-film-festival","9":"tag-cannes-film-market","10":"tag-imamura-shohei","11":"tag-japan","12":"tag-nihon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}