'Monster', Japanese film wins award at Cannes, hits Vietnamese theaters on July 21

The 2-hour-long film Monster by famous Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, written by screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto, will be released to Vietnamese audiences from July 21. The film won the Best Screenplay award at the Cannes Film Festival last May, and also won the Queer Palm for touching on the LGBTQ+ theme. The Vietnamese distributor labeled the film 18+ (for audiences aged 18 and over).

Monster movie touches on dark corners of contemporary Japanese society

This is the second time Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda has had a film win an award at Cannes, after his urban family drama Shoplifters (which won the Palme d'Or in 2018) and last year Broker (a Korean-language film, with actor Song Kang-ho winning the Best Artist award).

Continuing the theme of urban life, the story in Monster is taken from the perspective of a school. When discovering that her son Minato has unusual signs, single mother Saori rushes to her son's school to ask the teacher for an explanation. However, what unfolds before her eyes, the teachers and many others are extremely surprising. The film brings together actors such as Sakura Andō, Eita Nagayama, Sōya Kurokawa...

The movie Monster received many compliments from Western film critics with a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, from sites such as Vox , BBC , Vulture , South China Morning Post ...

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