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August 2026
Best Narrative Feature
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Reiko Masuyama
WORSHIP
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Meet Reiko Masuyama
Biography
Reiko Masuyama studied art in the Oil Painting Department at Tokyo University of the Arts, producing films since 2011. After reporting from war zones such as Iraq and Palestine and supporting street children in India, creates works expressing a wish for world peace. Representative Director of the Eurasia International Film Festival.
Achievements
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Winner of Best Narrative Feature at the August 2026 USA International Film Awards.
About “WORSHIP”
Hikaru Yuzuki discovers a mysterious bottle washed ashore on the coast of Omaezaki, Shizuoka. It is a cookie tin once supplied to the Imperial Japanese Navy heavy cruiser Haguro during World War II, containing a letter written shortly before the cruiser was sunk in the Strait of Malacca.
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