Eigei Worst Ten 2010

[Jasper Sharp]

Surely Someday surely should have been number one. I'll never forgive the Yubari programmers for imposing this on us for the opening night last year!


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> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:22:26 -0800
> From: mekerpan at verizon.net
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: Eigei Worst Ten 2010
> 
> Reading these lists year after year, all I can think is "I REALLY don't think I like these guys".
> 
> MEK
> 
> --- On Wed, 1/26/11, Alex Zahlten <Alex.Zahlten at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > From: Alex Zahlten <Alex.Zahlten at gmx.de>
> > Subject: Eigei Worst Ten 2010
> > To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> > Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 1:07 AM
> > 
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > since the worst ten list is what sets the Eiga Geijutsu
> > poll apart from the other more or less major polls in Japan,
> > I think it's worth spreading it around as well.
> > There are, by the way, a lot of critics even from the Eiga
> > Geijutsu poll that don't vote in the worst ten list (usually
> > for fear of offending people), so the pool of voters is
> > smaller than for the best ten list. 
> > 
> > 
> > 1. Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima)
> > 2. Caterpillar (Koji Wakamatsu)
> > 3. About Her Brother (Yoji Yamada)
> > 4. Incite Mill (Hideo Nakata)
> > 5. Tokyo Island (Makoto Shinozaki)
> > 6. Zatoichi, The Last (Junji Sakamoto)
> > 6. Surely Someday (Shun Oguri)
> > 8. Space Battleship Yamato (Takashi Yamazaki)
> > 9. Bayside Shakedown 3 (Katsuyuki Motohiro)
> > 9. Solanin (Takahiro Miki)
> > 
> > Alex
> > 
> > 
> > -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > > Datum: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:50:10 -0500
> > > Von: Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
> > > An: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> > > Betreff: Eigei Best Ten 2010
> > 
> > > The results of the Eiga geijutsu poll of the best (and
> > worst) films of  
> > > 2010 was just announced:
> > > 
> > > http://eigageijutsu.com/article/181634398.html
> > > 
> > > Here they are in English:
> > > 
> > > 1. Heaven's Story (Zeze Takahisa)
> > > 2. Doman Seman (Shibata Go)
> > > 3. Kore de ii no kashira (Okishima Isao)
> > > 4. Partners (Shimomura Masaru)
> > > 5. Yellow Kid (Mariko Tetsuya)
> > > 6. Sawako Decides (Ishii Yuya)
> > > 6. Sankaku (Yoshida Keisuke)
> > > 8. 13 Assassins (Miike Takashi)
> > > 9. Sketches of Kaitan City (Kumakiri Kazuyoshi)
> > > 9. Time Traveller (Masaaki Taniguchi)
> > > 9. Boys on the Run (Miura Daisuke)
> > > 
> > > You can also see this on my blog:
> > > http://www.aarongerow.com/news/eiga-geijutsu-best-10-for-2.html
> > > 
> > > The results are rather typical for Eigei: eccentric,
> > independent, very  
> > > favorable to films made by friends of the magazine,
> > brutal on people  
> > > they don't like. Confessions, which was number 2 in
> > the KineJun poll-- 
> > > and which just failed to get the Oscar nomination
> > nod--was number 1 on  
> > > the Eigei worst poll (they hate Nakashima there, which
> > I think is  
> > > unfair). I used to vote for the Eigei poll, but they
> > have the tendency  
> > > to cull out selectors who are picking the wrong
> > films.
> > > 
> > > Aaron Gerow
> > > Associate Professor
> > > Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and
> > Literatures
> > > Director of Undergraduate Studies, Film Studies
> > > Yale University
> > > 53 Wall Street, Room 316
> > > PO Box 208363
> > > New Haven, CT 06520-8363
> > > USA
> > > Phone: 1-203-432-7082
> > > Fax: 1-203-432-6764
> > > e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu
> > > site: www.aarongerow.com
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > -- 
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