Tuesday, September 8, 2009

ヴィヨンの妻(viyon no tsuma): Villon's Wife

Good news. The Director Kichitaro Negishi(根岸吉太郎), 59 years old received the Best Director Award at the 33rd Montreal World Film Festival (Festival des Films du Monde - Montreal) in the evening of Sep. 7 in Canada (Sep. 8 in JST). Its film title is Villon's Wife written by Osamu Dazai(太宰治). This is the 100th anniversary year of Dazai's birth. Four of his books have been made into movies one after another recently.
Last year at that festival the Japanese movie Okuribito (おくりびと), Departure got the Grand prix des Americas. And that movie got the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Award this year. Therefore we expect the Villon's Wife will also be famous.
The movie will be released on October 10 in Japan. I am looking forward to seeing that movie.

The official website of the movie is http://www.villon.jp/

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