KineJun Best Ten 2001

[Aaron Gerow]

The Kinema Junpo Best Ten for 2001, selected by several dozen film 
critics for the magazine Kinema Junpo, was announced.  The results are as 
follows:

1. Go
2. Hush!
3. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
4. Eureka
5. Kazahana
6. Mabudachi
7. Lili Chouchou no subete
8. Water Boys
9. Hikari no ame
10. Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu

Inidividual awards were as follows:

Best director: Yukisada Isao (Go)
Best screenplay: Miyafuji Kankuro (Go)
Best actress: Kataoka Reiko (Hush!)
Best actor: Kubozuka Yosuke (Go)
Best supporting actress: Shibasaki Ko (Go)
Best supporting actor: Yamazaki Tsutomu (Go)
Best new actor: Kubozuka Yosuke (Go)

People were asking about the criticial reception of Go--well, here's one 
indicator.  I personally have big problems with the film's politics, but 
have to admit it's a great youth movie.  Hush! was a surprise because it 
hasn't even opened in Tokyo yet (it ran for a bit in Nagasaki in 
November, but that didn't count for the Eiga geijutsu poll). One can 
suspect that Kazahana, Hikari no ame, and Akai hashi got support from the 
older critics, but we have to wait for the Best Ten issue of KineJun to 
find out. Overall, a mixed set of results, but that's to be expected with 
KineJun.  Any comments?

Aaron Gerow
Yokohama National University
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