Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival
'Shoplifters'
The Koji Yakusho-starrer 'The Blood of Wolves' scored 12 mentions, while the indie zombie hit 'One Cut of the Dead' collected eight.
Hirokazu Kore-eda's Palme d'Or winner Shoplifters (Manbiki Kazoku) leads the Japan Academy Prize nominations with 13.
The foreign-language Oscar contender is up for best picture, director, screenplay, actor (Lily Franky), actress (Sakura Ando), supporting actress (the late Kiki Kirin), music, sound, cinematography, production design, lighting and editing.
Following closely behind Shoplifters with 12 mentions is Blood of Wolves, starring Koji Yakusho (Memoirs of a Geisha) as a hard-boiled detective in an organized crime division who appears at times too close to the yakuza gangsters he investigates. Directed by Kazuya Shiraishi and based on the novel of the same name by Yuko Yuzuki, the film was critically well-received but only took in just over ￥670 million ($6 million) at the box office.....
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