“ Fujiko ,” the second feature from Japanese director Kimura Taichi and produced by Megumi , took the Mulberry Audience Award at the 28th Far East Film Festival .
The Korean documentary “The Seoul Guardians,” directed by Kim Jong-woo, Kim Shin-wan and Cho Chul-young – a live chronicle of a coup d’état – came in second, while four films tied for third place: Yuen Woo-ping’s “Blades of the Guardians: Wind Rises in the Desert,” Chung Ji-young’s “My Name,” Bui Thac Chuyen’s “Tunnels: Sun in the Dark” and Chang Hang-jun’s “The King’s Warden.”
Set in Shizuoka during the 1970s and ’80s and drawn from Kimura’s own family history, “Fujiko” follows a single mother navigating personal freedom amid the social upheaval of the era.…