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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Michael Kerpan <mekerpan@verizon.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wed, 26 January, 2011 17:08:36<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Kumakiri's Nonko 36-sai<BR></FONT><BR>Not a bad pick. ;~}<BR><BR>Why in heaven's name has such a superb film garnered so little Western interest?<BR><BR>And Hiroki's touching Kimi no tomodachi also seems to have been met with pretty universal indifference.<BR><BR><BR><BR>--- On Wed, 1/26/11, Aaron Gerow <<A href="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu" ymailto="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu">aaron.gerow@yale.edu</A>> wrote:<BR><BR>> From: Aaron Gerow <<A href="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu" ymailto="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu">aaron.gerow@yale.edu</A>><BR>> Subject: Re: Eigei Worst Ten 2010<BR>> To: <A
href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu" ymailto="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</A><BR>> Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 4:40 PM<BR>> <BR>> On Jan 25, 2011, at 10:23 PM, Rob Smith wrote:<BR>> <BR>> > does anyone happen to have the 2008 and 2009<BR>> best/worst lists handy?<BR>> <BR>> Alex posted the 2008 list on KineJapan, but I think we all<BR>> forgot to do it last year. Here's the 2008 list:<BR>> <BR>> Best Ten:<BR>> <BR>> 1. Non-Ko (Nonko 36-Sai) (Kazuyoshi Kumakiri)<BR>> 2. United Red Army (Jitsuroku Rengô Sekigun. Asama Sansô<BR>> e no Michi) (Koji Wakamatsu)<BR>> 3. Kiss (Seppun) (Kunitoshi Manda)<BR>> 4. Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)<BR>> 5. Don't Laugh at me Romance (Hito no Sex wo Warau na)<BR>> (Nami Iguchi)<BR>> 5. Passion (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)<BR>> 7. Children of the Dark (Yami no Kodomotachi) (Junji<BR>>
Sakamoto)<BR>> 8. Chameleon (Junji Sakamoto)<BR>> 9. Ishiuchi Jinjô Kôtô Shôgakkô. Hana ha Chiredomo.<BR>> (Kaneto Shindô)<BR>> 10. Your Friend (Kimi no Tomodachi) (Ryûichi Hiroki)<BR>> <BR>> Worst Ten:<BR>> <BR>> 1. Departures (Okuribito) (Yôjiro Takita)<BR>> 2. Shaolin Girl (Shôrin Shôjo) (Katsuyuki Motohiro)<BR>> 3. I Want to Be a Shellfish (Watashi ha Kai ni Naritai)<BR>> (Katsuo Fukuzawa)<BR>> 3. The Magic Hour (Kôki Mitani)<BR>> 5. Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)<BR>> 6. Achilles and the Tortoise (Takeshi Kitano)<BR>> 6. Nanayomachi (Naomi Kawase)<BR>> 8. Still Walking (Aruite mo, Aruite mo) (Hirokazu Koreeda)<BR>> 8. The Climbers High (Masao Harada)<BR>> 10. United Red Army (Jitsuroku Rengô Sekigun. Asama Sansô<BR>> e no Michi) (Koji Wakamatsu)<BR>> <BR>> <BR>><BR></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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