Eiga Geijutsu makes some surpising picks in its annual best/ worst lists of 2010

by Chris MaGee

There is one Japanese film magazine that just doesn't fall in line when it comes to their annual top picks. That's Eiga Geijutsu. The magazine has spent decades championing overlooked and indie films in Japan and their best and worst lists clearly indicate this. So what does Eiga Geijutsu have to say about the film released in 2010? Well, the magazine has taken one of the biggest critical darlings of the last year and named it as their worst film, that's what! Apparently Tetsuya Nakashima's "Confessions" is the worst film of 2010 while Takahisa Zeze's 4 plus hour drama "Heaven's Story" (above) snagged the top spot in Eiga Geijutsu's best of list. Their best of list also features such underdog's as Go Shibata's "Doman Seman" and Tetsuya Mariko's "Yellow Kid".

You can check out who was praised and who was panned in Eiga Geijutsu's top tens of 2010 below courtesy of Wildgrounds.

TOP of 2010

1. Heaven’s story (Takahisa Zeze)
2. Doman Seman (Go Shibata)
3. Okoru saigyou (Isao Okishima)
3. Partners (Masaru Shimomura)
5. Yellow Kid (Tetsuya Mariko)
6. Sawako Decides (Yuya Ishii)
6. Triangle (Keisuke Yoshida)
8. Thirteen Assassins (Takashi Miike)
9. Sketches of Kaitan City (Kazuyoshi Kumakiri)
9. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Masaaki Taniguchi)
9. Boys on the Run (Daisuke Miura)

WORST of 2010

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)