Good call by Eiga Geijutsu magazine picking it the worst film or the year. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Aaron Gerow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu">aaron.gerow@yale.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">It was announced that Takita Yojiro's Okuribito (Departures) was picked as one of the five nominees for the Academy Award for best foreign language film. That's the first Japanese film since Yamada Yoji's Tasogare Seibei was nominated in 2003.<br>
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