Japan is out in force in Cannes this year across the Official Selection and parallel sections as well as the Marché du Film, where it is the country of honor , with its high-profile presence continuing a long and illustrious relationship with the festival. Kōzaburō Yoshimura’s  The Tale of Genji , Kiyoshi Saeki’s  Man in the Storm  and Noboru Nakamura’s  Nami  marked Japan’s entry into the main Competition in 1952. The country clinched its first Cannes top prize — the Grand Prix, which was replaced by the Palme d’Or in 1995 — in 1954 with Teinosuke Kinugasa’s  Gate of Hell . Close to 75 years after its Cannes debut, Japan is celebrating another Competition hat trick this year with Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Paris-set drama  All of a Sudden ; Hirokazu Kore-eda’s sci-fi  Sheep in the Box   and Fukada Koji ’s intimate drama  Nagi Notes in the running for the Palme d’Or.…