asian films

[mancubas]

Having watched Kung Fu Hustle by Stephen Chow I have a new appreciation for asian films, I now have Shaolin Soccer to watch and having a screenselect account I look forward to watching a few more that have been listed here.

ManC

[Mithrandir]

Watched Dragon Tiger Gate last night. It's a great action flick, but the story is bland. It starts off like the Marvel films with the flicking through of a comic book.

[ponders]

favourite ? i couldnt choose, but watched Police Story and Project A, both ground breaking movies, Meals on wheels (funny kung-fu, 80's ).

And Casshern, man when i saw that film it took blue screen to a new level!! made sin city look like pinnochio! One of the main fights really gets a comic book feel to it, really is like 'real live action' anime, a lot of phylosophy too. only a couple of ££ as well.



(.....did he really eat that squid ?)

[Skinleech]

(.....did he really eat that squid ?)

Yes he did. It's a delicacy in Korea, AFAIK, so not quite as shocking to the natives I guess.

[Steyr]

And Casshern, man when i saw that film it took blue screen to a new level!! made sin city look like pinnochio! One of the main fights really gets a comic book feel to it, really is like 'real live action' anime, a lot of phylosophy too. only a couple of ££ as well.

I agree, Cassherns visuals were stunning. I recommend giving Natural City a shoot too.

[blue73]

Seven Samurai, The Water Margin, Brotherhood, Battle Royale, Oldboy, Ghost In The Shell, Akira, Spirited Away, Ringu, Shaolin Soccer, R Point. Crikey this could go on and on. Oh and just in case you Guys don't know, you probably do but here goes Film4 are running an Korean movie thing at the moment. Some cracking films to see.. Many sleepless nights.. Oh and I nearly forgot Monkey.. Seminal!!!

[leeglf]

if you love kung fu you gotta see dragon tiger gate!

[atrull]

another vote for oldboy here

[KBeee]

Or if you don't like Asian movies just wait till Hollywood remakes them.
Just off the top of my head, and not counting old ones like 7 Samurai or Yojimbo-
Ringu, Ringu 2, Ju-on, Ju-on 2, Dark Water, Tale of Two Sisters, The Eye, Battle Royale, Old Boy, Shall We Dance, Siworae, Infernal Affairs, My Wife Is A Gangster, My Sassy Girl.
There's probably half a dozen others that should be on the list that I can't think of.

[pauldarkside]

Blimey, where to start ... I've been spending time building up collecting and I can definately recommend this lot (yes some have been mentioned before but hey, they're cracking films):

Bang-Rajan
Better Tomorrow
Bichunmoo
Brotherhood (Tae Guk Gi)
Casshern
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Dark Water
Fearless (Huo Yuan Jia)
Grudge (Ju On)
H
Hard Boiled
Hero
House of Flying Daggers
Ichi The Killer (not seen the original anime version)
Infernal Affairs (I'd like to see how the Hollywood version compares to this)
Into The Mirror
JSA (Joint Security Area)
Kagemusha
Koma
Kung Fu Hustle
Lady Vengeance
Oldboy
Ong-Bak
R-Point
Sympathy For Mr Vengeance
Visitor Q
Warrior (Musa)
(more on the way!)

It might be worth checking http://www.tartanvideo.com/ as they have, and sell, a nice bunch and most releases have DTS soundtracks in the original language. I started collecting after being continually disappointed with the standard of Hollywood. The independant and Asian scenes are much better these days - more originality.

[HyeongSeong]

I just watched Quil and would highly recommend you lot to watch it ( esp that you are a dog lover).

For more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quill_%28film%29

[doddsy]

Some of the films mentioned are awesome, the Infernal Affairs trilogy and Ong Bak being stand outs imo. Here are a few I own that I highly recommend:

Versus
Princess Blade
Azumi 1 & 2

All 4 are fantastic films (and the star of Azumi is hot!).

[KBeee]

The star of Azumi is also Hot in Yo****sune
But it's a 50 episode TV series

lol - The name of a legendary Japanese hero got auto censored

[doddsy]

The star of Azumi is also Hot in Yo****sune
But it's a 50 episode TV series

lol - The name of a legendary Japanese hero got auto censored

I might look it out.