Eureka awards at Cannes

[Aaron Gerow]

The Cannes Film Festival closed on the 21st, with Lars von Trier's 
_Dancing in the Dark_ winning the top prize.  Among the Japanese entries, 
only Aoyama Shinji's _Eureka_ was awarded, winning both the FIPRESCI 
Prize (for the official selection) and the Grand Prize of the Ecumenical 
Jury.  Both _Eureka_ and its star Yakusho Koji were reported in the last 
few days to be in the running for awards.

Other Japan-related films did win awards, however.  Competition runner-up 
_Devils on the Doorstep_ is a Chinese film (by Jiang Wen, and co-starring 
Kagawa Teruyuki) dealing with the Japanese occupation of China, and _A 
One and a Two_, for which Edward Yang won the best director award, was 
partially financed by Japan's Pony Canyon (and features Issei Ogata).  
_Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her_, by Roberto Garcia, which 
was partially financed by NHK, won a prize in the Un Certain Regard 
competition.

Aaron Gerow
Yokohama National University
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