Asian Cinema Thread
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serpantino
Thousand Master
I have too many to list. I'll try to remember to take photos when I get home though, if my internet isn't still broken 
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I saw the devil was mentioned earlier, gotta add my recommendation to that and suggest checking out cold fish if you liked it.
If you've not seen crows zero (live action manga adaptation by takashi miike) the us blu-ray is actually region free but there's no English sub of crows zero 2 & only a UK DVD release.
. I saw the devil was mentioned earlier, gotta add my recommendation to that and suggest checking out cold fish if you liked it.
If you've not seen crows zero (live action manga adaptation by takashi miike) the us blu-ray is actually region free but there's no English sub of crows zero 2 & only a UK DVD release.
Yami
Thousand Master
It's been a few years since I've seen it, but I thought that Kim Jee-woon's earlier film A Bittersweet Life was even better than I Saw the Devil. It's a violent Korean neo-noir gangster film with Lee Byung-hun (who would later be one of the stars of I Saw the Devil) playing a high ranking enforcer who doesn't go along with his boss' orders.
Hard to find cheap nowadays though.
Hard to find cheap nowadays though.
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Peachy
Bumpkin
My kind of thread. I love cinema!
Adding Chungking Express to my watch-list, ta.
My favorite Asian film has to be Welcome to Dongmakgol, closely followed by Throne Of Blood & Lady Vengeance.
Ichi The Killer, Oldboy & Audition will also always hold a special place in my heart as they were the first three non-western and Asian films I watched, each blew my mind in unique ways I'll never forget.
Other favorites include:
- Pigs & Battleships
- My Sassy Girl
- Happiness Of The Katakuri's
- RAN
- Late Spring
- Story Of The Last Chrysanthemums
- Tokyo Story
- Burmese Harp
- Ugetsu Monogatari
- Lady Snowblood
- The Host
- 3-Iron
- I'm a Cyborg but that's Okay
- Tokyo Gore Police
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
(I have lots of favorites, always so hard to pick!)
Photos of my Asain film collection bunched together: (Not pictured are Yatterman, Ballad Of Narayama, Blind Womans Curse & Silmido) (EDIT: Just noticed I accidentally left non- Asian film Salo among the collection images, I'm sorry if that bought back any painful memories for any unlucky sods who's also sat through it)
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hnngg, ordered that as soon as they announced it. Super excited.
Adding Chungking Express to my watch-list, ta.
My favorite Asian film has to be Welcome to Dongmakgol, closely followed by Throne Of Blood & Lady Vengeance.
Ichi The Killer, Oldboy & Audition will also always hold a special place in my heart as they were the first three non-western and Asian films I watched, each blew my mind in unique ways I'll never forget.
Other favorites include:
- Pigs & Battleships
- My Sassy Girl
- Happiness Of The Katakuri's
- RAN
- Late Spring
- Story Of The Last Chrysanthemums
- Tokyo Story
- Burmese Harp
- Ugetsu Monogatari
- Lady Snowblood
- The Host
- 3-Iron
- I'm a Cyborg but that's Okay
- Tokyo Gore Police
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
(I have lots of favorites, always so hard to pick!)
Photos of my Asain film collection bunched together: (Not pictured are Yatterman, Ballad Of Narayama, Blind Womans Curse & Silmido) (EDIT: Just noticed I accidentally left non- Asian film Salo among the collection images, I'm sorry if that bought back any painful memories for any unlucky sods who's also sat through it)
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Yami said:
hnngg, ordered that as soon as they announced it. Super excited.
Yami
Thousand Master
Dannielle said:
Don't listen! Salo is the perfect film to give as a gift for all occasions. Particularly good for Secret Santas.
Fantastic collection, Dannielle!
Mizoguchi might actually be my favourite of the three big Japanese directors. His films are just so perfect - though some (Last Chrysanthemums, Ugetsu, Sansho, Life of Oharu, Street of Shame, Crucified Lovers, Straits of Love and Hate...I could probably name even more) are more perfect than others. I have a feeling that I might love Naruse even more if I saw more of his films.
Peachy
Bumpkin
I've been attempting to upgrade what I can to Blu but It's been a priority on the back burner for a while. This thread has put me in the position to one again actively search for imports with subs. Thanks msgeek :thumb:
The poor souls who's interest is now peaked...
Thanks Yami!
Mizoguchi is just great, when I first started watching his works I was not only impressed with how much I enjoyed the films but how he wrote females, especially in Sisters of the Gion. I'm no feminist (but like any sane person I'm all for equal rights) but you can feel a sense of empowerment (which, before my viewing I didn't think happened in older cinema), it's grand.
I've never seen a Naruse film. The BFI set went OOP before I got round to buying. Gutted to this day. I've been tempted to import the Criterion version of When a Woman Ascends the Stairs but I'm holding out, hoping Eureka pick his films up for their Masters Of Cinema series and give me a tasty art box.
Yami said:Dannielle said:
Don't listen! Salo is the perfect film to give as a gift for all occasions. Particularly good for Secret Santas.
Fantastic collection, Dannielle!
Mizoguchi might actually be my favourite of the three big Japanese directors. His films are just so perfect - though some (Last Chrysanthemums, Ugetsu, Sansho, Life of Oharu, Street of Shame, Crucified Lovers, Straits of Love and Hate...I could probably name even more) are more perfect than others. I have a feeling that I might love Naruse even more if I saw more of his films.
The poor souls who's interest is now peaked...
Thanks Yami!
Mizoguchi is just great, when I first started watching his works I was not only impressed with how much I enjoyed the films but how he wrote females, especially in Sisters of the Gion. I'm no feminist (but like any sane person I'm all for equal rights) but you can feel a sense of empowerment (which, before my viewing I didn't think happened in older cinema), it's grand.
I've never seen a Naruse film. The BFI set went OOP before I got round to buying. Gutted to this day. I've been tempted to import the Criterion version of When a Woman Ascends the Stairs but I'm holding out, hoping Eureka pick his films up for their Masters Of Cinema series and give me a tasty art box.
Yami
Thousand Master
A lot of Naruse's films are available with fansubs - not ideal, obviously, but it'll do for now. There was a Masters of Cinema set but that too is, sadly, OOP now. MoC are releasing a couple of great Asian films soon though - Cruel Story of Youth and Dragon Inn. Doubt I'll be able to afford them for a while thanks to paying for Arrow's Yoshida, Rivette and Battles Without Honor and Humanity sets though
EDIT: Naruse's Floating Clouds is on Film 4 at 12:50 tonight!!
EDIT: Naruse's Floating Clouds is on Film 4 at 12:50 tonight!!
msgeek
Magical Girl
Just finished "Love Exposure" - Yami's recommendation. One heck of a ride. It manages to evoke a greater range of emotion in a single film than perhaps any other I can think of (and it is notoriously difficult to evoke any kind of emotion in me). I would add not to judge it by the trailer there is a lot more to this film than is implied in that.
I'll definitely (for what it's worth) add my voice to it as a recommendation.
I'll definitely (for what it's worth) add my voice to it as a recommendation.
Yami
Thousand Master
I'm glad you liked it!
Quite how Sion Sono managed to put so many things into a film and still make it work (and work so well!) still astounds me. I haven't seen another film from him that I'd put on the same level but I've yet to see Tokyo Tribe - "the world's first battle rap musical"...
Quite how Sion Sono managed to put so many things into a film and still make it work (and work so well!) still astounds me. I haven't seen another film from him that I'd put on the same level but I've yet to see Tokyo Tribe - "the world's first battle rap musical"...
Peachy
Bumpkin
Smeelia said:
Great to find someone else who's seen (& enjoys) the film, Dongmakgol is (IMO) heavily under watched.
Yami said:A lot of Naruse's films are available with fansubs - not ideal, obviously, but it'll do for now. There was a Masters of Cinema set but that too is, sadly, OOP now. MoC are releasing a couple of great Asian films soon though - Cruel Story of Youth and Dragon Inn. Doubt I'll be able to afford them for a while thanks to paying for Arrow's Yoshida, Rivette and Battles Without Honor and Humanity sets though
EDIT: Naruse's Floating Clouds is on Film 4 at 12:50 tonight!!
Funny that, I have those ordered too .. great minds and all that jazz. Honor's the only one that's been pre-paid but I too, very much want Cruel & Inn.
I was at work during that showing but I don't actually have my TV plugged in to watch broadcast television, thinking about it I'm not even sure how I could do it?
Much appreciated though!bakum4tsu said:
Thanks! Nice to see your face around here again, I did wonder where you'd got off too
If you do watch some of the titles mentioned in this thread, I'd love to see your thoughts & that goes for everyone here. We have that movie rating thread that could do with some love. Gonna start posting in there again myself.
Do we have a film thread? Just a general chat one? That'd be interesting as It appears we have some film fans here so topics could be fab.
msgeek
Magical Girl
Dannielle said:
I had wondered if there would be any interest in a thread like this for other genre's / category's... Asian Cinema seemed like a good thread to have as it has some relation to this boards main topic...
For what it's worth I've organized the majority of my BD's into the following categories;
Space (no aliens)
Space (alien monsters)
Space (anthropomorphic aliens)
Aliens invade (or visit) Earth
Drugs and Gangsters
War
Vampires and Demons
Robots and AI's
Superhero's and Super Powers
Generic Action
Historical and Mythological
Fantasy and Adventure
Dark futures and post apocalypse
Monsters
Comedy
Zombies
Generic Horror
Spies and Espionage
So if there are people about who have a particular interest in one or more of those areas I'd certainly be interested in discussing them and hearing recommendations etc
bakum4tsu
Pokémon Master
Dannielle said:bakum4tsu said:
Thanks! Nice to see your face around here again, I did wonder where you'd got off too
If you do watch some of the titles mentioned in this thread, I'd love to see your thoughts & that goes for everyone here. We have that movie rating thread that could do with some love. Gonna start posting in there again myself.
Do we have a film thread? Just a general chat one? That'd be interesting as It appears we have some film fans here so topics could be fab.
Thanks! I've been a bit away but visiting the forum everytime I can.
About the movies, I think I've posted my list in the beggining. I havent seen that many Asian movies but I do like to watch from time to time. Actually, I'm not a big movie fan overall, I like to watch but I don't watch that many, lets say, just the ones that really make me hyped about them. lol
I will post my list again for you and what I've said at the time too.
Peachy
Bumpkin
bakum4tsu said:
Internal Affairs! How did I forget that, great film. The third one is worth a watch then? Only seen the first & second.
Bichunmoo - The Warrior & Azumi added to my never ending list.
Gantz..I never finished the Anime nor have I read the Manga, alright films to go into blind?
msgeek said:
Same! Maybe we could make a thread that's purely about cinema OR turn this one into a mass cinema thread. Just an idea as I'd love to discuss cinema more with people as I don't have an online outlet for just that and the opinions of others is always interesting.
Yami said:
That does sound headache inducing, couldn't imagine doing that..the various categories sounds much simpler :3
I sort mine by company/film type/alphabetically & separate BD/DVD
Do any posters here have a http://letterboxd.com/ account?
Yami
Thousand Master
Here's my Letterboxd
I don't write reviews particularly often, but I aim to do more soon. I just wrote my first blog post in three years about my thoughts on cinema, and although I don't mention live action Asian cinema I do mention anime. It's a bit rambling - hence the title!
I don't write reviews particularly often, but I aim to do more soon. I just wrote my first blog post in three years about my thoughts on cinema, and although I don't mention live action Asian cinema I do mention anime. It's a bit rambling - hence the title!