2010 (20th) Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival

Profile

• Film Festival: Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival
• Edition: 20th
• Period: February 25th - March 1st, 2010
• Location: Hotel Shuparo,Yubari City

Awards

• Young fantastic competition section Grand Prix: "Hot as Hell: the Deadbeat March" - Yosuke Okuda (Japan)
• Special Jury Prize: "Footed Tadpoles" - Tomoya Maeno (Japan)
• Hokkaido governor Jury Prize: "Wall" - Hyun Suruu
• Cinegar Award: "Footed Tadpoles" - Tomoya Maeno (Japan)

Films

Official Selection

• "Surely Someday" - Shun Oguri (Japan) * Opening Film / World Premiere
• "A Lone Scalpel" - Izuru Narushima (Japan)
• "Bushido Sixteen" - Tomoyuki Furumaya (Japan) * World Premiere
• "Sweet Little Lies" - Hitoshi Yazaki (Japan)
• "The Yellow Handkerchief (Remastered)" - Yoji Yamada (Japan) * World Premiere
• "Bakamono - The Idiots" - Shusuke Kaneko (Japan)
• "Green Zone" - Paul Greengrass (USA)
• "The Hurt Locker" - Kathryn Bigelow (USA)
• "An Education" - Lone Scherfig (UK)
• "District 9" - Neill Blomkamp (USA)
• "The Princess and the Frog" - Ron Clements & John Musker (USA)
• "The Yellow Handkerchief" - Udayan Prasad (USA) * Japan Premiere
• "Sherlock Holmes" - Guy Ritchie (USA)

Forbidden Zone

• "Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl" - various (Japan)
• "Dawn of the Dead" - George A. Romero (USA)

Yubari Choice: Japan Film

• "Yoshimi Yoshida the Insect Detective" - Sakichi Sato (Japan) * World Premiere
• "8000 Miles" - Yu Irie (Japan)
• "8000 Miles 2: Girls Rapper" - Yu Irie (Japan) * World Premiere
• "Index Gun" - Kei Nakata (Japan) * World Premiere
• "Yakuza - Busting Girls: Final Death Ride Battle" - Kazushi Nakadaira (Japan) * World Premiere
• "Yakuza - Busting Girls: Duel In Hell" - Shinichi Okuda (Japan) * World Premiere
• "Looking up at the Half-Moon" - Yoshihiro Fukagawa (Japan) * World Premiere
• "Yuriko no Aroma" - Kota Yoshida (Japan) * World Premiere

Yubari Choice: Korean Film

• "The Neighbor Zombie" - various (South Korea) * International Premiere
• "Norwegian Woods" - Jin-su No (South Korea) * International Premiere
• "Tokyo Taxi" - Kim Tae-Sik (South Korea/Japan) * Japan Premiere
• "The Madonna" - Ku Hye-Seon (South Korea) * International Premiere

Yubari Choice: World Cinema

• "Murderer" - Roy Chow Hing-Yeung (Hong Kong) * Japan Premiere
• "Election 2" - Johnny To (Hong Kong) * Japan Premiere
• "Colin" - Marc Price (UK) * Japan Premiere
• "The Human Centipede (First Sequence)" - Tom Six (Netherlands/UK) * Japan Premiere
• "Amer" - Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani (France/Belgiu) * Asian Premiere

Yubari Choice: Fantastic Animation

• "Hitokuiyama" - Naoyuki Niya (Japan)
• "The Death Lullabye" - Hiroshi Harada (Japan)
• "Syojotubaki"" - Hisaki Ezu (Japan)
• "Mecha-Afro Kun" - Yusaku Hanakuma (Japan)

Retrospective:Hisaya Morishige

• "The Inn in Front of the Train Station" - Shiro Toyoda (Japan)
• "The Angry Sea" - Seiji Hisamatsu (Japan)

Child Animated Cartoon Theater

• "The Fire Man" - Takeru Yamazaki (Japan)
• "Pelican Draft Beer" (Japan)
• "Glass in Love" (Japan)

Fantastic Off-Theater Competition

• "Hot as Hell: the Deadbeat March" - Yosuke Okuda (Japan)
• "Footed Tadpoles" - Tomoya Maeno (Japan)
• "Wall" - Hyun Suruu (South Korea) *short film
• "Never Ending Blue" - Takaomi Ogata (Japan)