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Japanese Cinema Had a Significant Year at the 76th Cannes Film Festival
At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Hirokazu Kore-eda's Monster, a recent film by the Cannes regular director, received the Best Screenplay award for its script by Yuji Sakamoto. German director Wim Wenders' Perfect Days, funded by the Japanese fast fashion brand Uniqlo, won the Best Actor award for Koji Yakusho, who portrayed a janitor in a public restroom in Tokyo who loves a quiet life.