[/floatr]AFP: Japan's 'The Mourning Forest' wins Grand Prix at Cannes
A stirring Japanese film about death and grief, "The Mourning Forest," claimed the Grand Prix at Cannes on Sunday, the runner-up prize for best picture at the world's premiere filmfest. Director Naomi Kawase was in tears as she accepted the prize for her film, "Mogari No Mori" in Japanese, which offered a gentle but powerful look at people haunted by tragic loss...The film tells the story of Shigeki, a mysterious resident at a retirement home in the mountains outside Nara City in western Japan who befriends a caregiver at the facility, Machiko. Shigeki, portrayed masterfully by Shigeki Uda, is grieving for his wife who died long before and returns in joyful flashbacks that both delight and confuse the elderly man...more...
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