Japan wins Cannes top prize after Weinstein accuser takes stage
(WorldNews Japan)

CANNES, France: `Shoplifters,` a heart wrenching family tale by Japanese veteran director Hirokazu Kore-eda, won the Palme d´Or top prize at the Cannes film festival Saturday, at a ceremony marked by an emotional speech from a Harvey Weinstein accuser. Spike Lee accepted the runner-up Grand Prix for `BlacKkKlansman,` a searing broadside against racism with the stranger-than-fiction true story of an African-American police officer who manages to infiltrate the highest levels of the Ku Klux Klan. Jury president Cate Blanchett said the film, which explicitly links the 1970s tale and white nationalism in the Trump era, `blew us out of the cinema.` But the most stunning moment of the night came...