Overview
- Festival organizers confirmed Thursday that Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, and Koji Fukada each have a film in the main Competition at the 79th Cannes Film Festival in France.
- ‘Hako no Naka no Hitsuji’ by Kore-eda follows grieving parents who bring home an android boy and features Haruka Ayase and comedian Daigo of Chidori.
- Hamaguchi’s ‘Kyū ni Guai ga Warukunaru’ is a Japan–France co‑production set in a Paris care home and draws from letters by philosopher Masako Miyano and anthropologist Maho Isono.
- Koji Fukada’s ‘Nagi Diary,’ filmed in Nagi Town in Okayama Prefecture, tracks three people in a mountain region facing their pasts as part of another Japan–France co‑production.
- Beyond Competition, Yuki Sode’s ‘All the Lovers Are at Midnight’ enters Un Certain Regard and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s ‘Kokurōjō’ screens in Cannes Premiere, while past Cannes wins for Kore-eda (2018 Palme d’Or) and Hamaguchi (2021 screenplay) frame expectations.