With a gentle touch and a lilting piano score, Kawase effortlessly avoids the sentimentality that often taints Japanese movies.

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Other 2013 jury members include Indian actress Vidya Balan, Japanese director Naomi Kawase, French actor and director Daniel Auteuil and Romanian director Cristian Mungiu.

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Kawase Naomi's Suzaku, which won the prize at Cannes for best first film, is quiet, sorrowful and as fragile as the story it tells.

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