The Asian country will seek to win its fifth statuette for best film in a foreign language with "The Great Passage" by Yūya Ishii.
The last time Japan took the Oscar to Best Foreign Language Film it was in 2008 with Yojiro Takita's "Farewells", more than five decades after he had won his three previous Oscars.
Akira Kurosawa received the Oscar in this section by «Rash? Mon»In 1951, Teinosuke Kinugasa obtained it in 1954 for«Hell's gate"And in 1955 it was Hiroshi Inagaki for"Samurai«On these three occasions, Japan won the award directly since it was not until 1956 that the nomination system was implemented in this category.
«The Great Passage»Tells the story of a philologist who, after failing as a salesman, begins to work as editor of a new dictionary that two specialists are writing. At the same time he falls in love with a girl, which will allow him to make a new definition of the word 'love'.
Star in the tape ryuhei matsuda, whom we could in the mythical "Izo" by Takashi Miike and Aoi Miyazaki, seen in Abbas Kiarostami's latest film "Like Someone in Love" and they are joined in the cast Joe odagiri y Kaoru Kobayashi.
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