2008.12.31

2008, movie access ranking announcement!

The place to leave 2008 is another few hours.
People going to the streets feel more quickly than usual.
Countdown live? Or a drinking party?

You can find "New Year" everywhere in the city of Shibuya.
The bottom photo is near the stairs.

In retrospect, various news such as this year's Shibuya opening business in the sub-central area, opening of Yamada Denki, opening public of Okamoto Taro's "myth of tomorrow", etc. For Shibuya, I realized again that it was a year of major turning point.
Special feature plan of year-end and new year "2008 Looking back at Shibuya This year's news everyone picksEven in ", I will introduce it in detail, please have a look.

By the way, I would like to announce the PV (page view) ranking of the movie which access to this site in the period last January 1 to December 30, 2008 last blog of the year.

The most popular number one is "Eat of life the way"Director: Nicolaus Gay Halter). Starting screening at the Shibuya Image Forum from November 10, 2007, it was actually a half-year, 40 weeks big hit. Everyday our consumers purchase meat packed in a supermarket without any hesitation. However, there are not so many people who knows what kind of process the packed meat comes up to the shop front. No documentation narrative or interview The documentary never accuses us of the belt conveyor process that continues from the farm to our mouth and does not justify it and only reflects its current situation. In recent years, various food problems such as expired foods and poisons added in the processing process are erupting, but what kind of action should we take in viewing this movie in the future? It was a dress that posed a big challenge.

First place:Eat of life the way(Director: Nikolaus Geiharuta)
Second place:Children of the Dark(Director: Junji Sakamoto)
3rd place:Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea(Director: Hayao Miyazaki)
4th:Do not laugh the sex of the person(Director: Iguchi 奈己)
5th:Rachmaninoff there examined of love(Director: Pavel Lungin)
# 6:Boys Over Flowers Final(Director: Yasuharu Ishii)
7th:≒ Yayoi Kusama - I love -(Director: Takako Matsumoto)
8th:Kanna is a great success!(Director: Kim Yong Hwa)
9:Lust, Caution(Director: Ang Lee)
10th:Cheburashka(Director: Romain Kachanov)
# 11:Searching for Vermeer who disappeared / Painting Detective Harold Smith(Director: Rebecca Dreyfuss)
12th:Earth Earth(Director: Alastair Fothergill)
13th:dark Knight(Director: Christopher Nolan)
# 14:Anna Karina week(Director: Jean-Luc Godard)
15th:SEX and the CITY(Director: Michael Patrick King)
# 16:Red Cliff Part1(Director: John Woo)
# 17:The most beautiful night in the world(Director: Daisuke Amen)
# 18:Indiana Jones / Kingdom of Crystal Skull(Director: Steven Spielberg)
# 19:Factory Girl(Director: George hit Ken Looper)
# 20:Yasukuni(Director: Li Ying)

Subsequently second place is "Children of the Dark"(Director: Junji Sakamoto) was. Social work depicting the problems of trafficking in persons in Thailand, prostitution, organ transplantation. Like how to eat life, let's think about what is good or bad, "life" or "live". Adults who sell children to live, adults to buy that child, adults who buy illegal organs to help children. Who is bad? How can we break this negative spiral? Perhaps you can say that this year's movie is the best movie you can remember your helplessness. Likewise, it became a big social problem that the 20th place "Yasukuni"(Director: Li Wei) was. A series of screening stoppages at movie theaters nationwide resulted in a publicity effect, a big topic for the first half. As well as "children in the dark", problems and complicated relationships with Japan and Thailand, Asian countries such as China and South Korea again emphasized.

Meanwhile, I cheered up the 2008 when there were many dark news, the third place "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea"(Director: Hayao Miyazaki). A fantasy depicting friendship and adventure between Andersen's fairy tale "Mermaid Princess" as a motif, a 5-year-old Sousuke juvenile and a fisher child Ponyo wishing to become a human being. If you do not know without knowing "Ponyo, Ponyo ♪", you may be brainwashed by Ponyo.

Below, the fourth place is "Do not laugh the sex of the person"(Director: Nagumi Iguchi), I want to be deceived like an older son like Hiromi Nagasaku! There must have been a lot of men who wished that. The fifth place is setting the opening record of Shibuya Le Cinema "Rachmaninoff there examined of love"(Director: Pavel Lungin), 6th is the popular TV drama series"Boys Over Flowers Final"(Director: Yasuharu Ishii), the 7th place is a documentary showing a glimpse of a charming aspect of a genius artist"≒ Yayoi Kusama - I love -"(Director: Takako Matsumoto) followed.

Besides that, we started screening on Shibuya Uplink from September 27Searching for Vermeer who disappeared / Painting Detective Harold Smith"(Director: Rebecca Dreyfus) got 11th, the nationwide road show became the November 1"Red Cliff Part1"(Director: John Woo) is listed in 16th place, and the topic work currently being screened has appeared within the ranking area as soon as possible. Particularly, "Red Cliff" is scheduled to screen in Part 2 next April and it seems to be a work that will predict the top ranking of access ranking in 2009.

In the 2008 rankings "Eat of life the way""Children of the Dark""YasukuniIt is evident that the number of people who are trying to seriously think about the problems of the world and Japan from movies is increasing. Environmental problems, food problems, back society, religious problems ... ..., what problems will we face after 2009?

Thank you very much for reading this year's Shibuya Culture Project one year ago.
I hope to take hot topics next year as well, so thank you in the future.

I wish you a happy New Year 2009 for you all.