Yu Aoi (35) starred in the movie “The Spy’s Wife” (released on October 16) on the 13th and received the Silver Lion Award (Director) in the Competition category of the Venice Film Festival, one of the three main world film festivals held in Italy. In response to receiving the award), through Bitter’s End distribution, he announced a congratulatory comment to director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (65), saying, “Congratulations to director Kurosawa for receiving the Silver Lion Award.”

Aoi said: “The moment (the chairman’s Australian actress) Kate Blanchett spoke the director’s name, in one corner of the scene, the monitor was silently looking at the director’s back and his wife. She remembered.” Kurosawa and his wife said.

In addition to that, he said, “I have been contacted by many friends from the cinema and they are all very excited, impressed and happy. Congratulations to director Kurosawa. I am looking forward to seeing the director’s film in the future.” ..

“Spy’s Wife” takes place in Kobe in 1940 (Showa 15) on the eve of the Pacific War. Yusaku Fukuhara, who runs a business venture played by Issei Takahashi (39), goes to Manchuria and accidentally discovers a terrifying national secret and attempts to inform the world of the circumstances so that justice is served. On the other hand, Yusaku’s wife, Satoko (Aoi), takes a mysterious Manchurian woman without her knowledge and doubts another face of her husband who brings a notebook wrapped in oil paper and a film hidden in a safe. It is a story that is driven by the love of the couple to act alongside the husband while she has anxiety.