This weekend saw Japan's hardened genre fans head north to the wintry climes of Hokkaido for the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, an always-excellent parade of established and emerging talent from the country and surrounding region. Just moments ago, the winners were announced for the Fantastic Off Theater Competition, where five shorts and five features from new filmmakers duke it out for the Grand Prize of 2 million yen (approximately Us$20,000). Previous winners have included Korean director Oh Young-doo's Invasion of Alien Bikini and Ishihara Takahiro's Osaka Violence. Last year's other big winner was a personal favourite of mine, Taichi Suzuki's The Brat!This year's jury is headed by the incredibly talented Tsukamoto Shinya, director of such insane works as Tetsuo: Iron Man, Snake of June...
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- 2/24/2013
- Screen Anarchy
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