The 83rd Venice International Film Festival has kicked off in Italy. Two Japanese movies are among the contenders for the top Golden Lion award.<\/p>\n
Actors and filmmakers walked the red carpet on Wednesday, the opening day for the event.<\/p>\n
Actor George Clooney was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.<\/p>\n
He said: “Movies don’t stop wars. They don’t lower inflation. They don’t fix elections, but they do do something remarkable.”<\/p>\n
One of the Japanese movies competing for the top award is “Look Back,” directed by Koreeda Hirokazu.<\/p>\n
The other is “Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?” directed by Tsukamoto Shinya.The Japanese title is “Nelson san, anata wa hito wo koroshimashitaka?”<\/p>\n
“Look Back” is a live-action adaptation of Fujimoto Tatsuki’s manga of the same name. The story of growth and loss follows two girls brought together by their shared passion for drawing manga.<\/p>\n
“Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?” chronicles a Vietnam War veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder as he confronts his experience of killing people in the battlefield through dialogue with a psychiatrist.<\/p>\n
Award winners are scheduled to be announced on Saturday, the final day of the festival.<\/p>\n
The Venice International Film Festival is one of the world’s three major film festivals, alongside those in Cannes and Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 83rd Venice International Film Festival has kicked off in Italy. Two Japanese movies are among the contenders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[337,81874,146,85,46,1437,81875,43,15611,81878,81879,81880,81877,6026,81876,81881,920,2711],"class_list":["post-604312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-asia","tag-biz","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-japan","tag-japan-broadcasting-corporation","tag-news","tag-nhk","tag-nhk-world","tag-nhk-world-premium","tag-nhk-world-tv","tag-nhkworld","tag-nuclear","tag-public-broadcaster","tag-radio-japan","tag-tech","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}