Off Topic => General Off Topic => Topic started by: Banok on August 21, 2013, 08:18:59 pm
Title: Good asian film recomendations
Post by: Banok on August 21, 2013, 08:18:59 pm
I've seen some really brilliant asian films recently, that made me want to find more. not anime and not necessarily Japanese/historicial, altho playing shogun 2 again did make me search out some of them.
So I want to recommend some and maybe have you recomend me some, because obviously there must be millions out there that don't see much western attention. tempted to describe them but I don't want to spoil anything.
Absolutely must watch: Ran (1985) Old Boy (2003)
Really good: 13 assassins The Raid: Redemption
Decent: hara kiri: death of a samurai
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Post by: Nightmare798 on August 21, 2013, 08:48:42 pm
bullet proof monk, that shit is so cash...
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Post by: Artyem on August 21, 2013, 09:07:24 pm
Ip Man 1 & 2
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Post by: Lizard_man on August 21, 2013, 09:13:53 pm
A Dirty Carnival Gangster High Friend A Bittersweet Life GP506 Breathless Once Upon a Time in High School Exiled The Election Infernal affairs Hana-Bi Sonatine
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First 3 are definitely my favourite, great stories, great characters etc. Other than that, they're all great films, and worth watching...
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Post by: NuberT on August 21, 2013, 09:25:09 pm
ugh, I liked itchy the killer, when I was younger :oops: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296042/
The Man from Nowhere http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527788/ Outrage http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462667/
some lists: http://www.imdb.com/list/v2i62jVwcMQ/ http://www.imdb.com/list/ypj_KZGw58s/ http://www.imdb.com/list/S1nw7j52T44/
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Post by: Sir_Hans on August 21, 2013, 09:59:56 pm
The Protector (Tony Jaa)
skip to 1:40 for the action to start :wink:
Sukiyaki Western Django
Directed by Takashi Miike (same director as 13 assassins) A Japanese movie where all the actors are speaking (heavy accented) english. Some people don't like it at all... could be the Japanese humor or just that some people don't like Miike films.... but I loved it. It's pretty much a "fistful of dollars" (clint eastwood) remake, which in itself was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo". Also "Yojimbo" is great if you don't mind watching black n white. Akira Kurosawa (same director as "ran") is a legendary director for good reason. His movies are very unique in their style of film/choreography.
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Post by: Osiris on August 21, 2013, 10:10:10 pm
Battle royal its ok but is a rip off of the hunger games
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sarcasm don't kill me :D
Three Kingdoms was an ok film. im not a fan of the over the top kungfu shit that happens in most of the asian films ive seen like hero, flying daggers etc
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Post by: AntiBlitz on August 21, 2013, 10:39:41 pm
Legend of the Drunken Master, hilarious film, that is good, with Jackie Chan.
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Post by: Bulzur on August 21, 2013, 10:56:05 pm
By Asian film, do you mean "combat" asian films ? Films with mainly asian actors ? Films directed by an asian ?
If it's not the first, i'd gladly throw out "Avalon", 2001, from Mamoru Oshii. A "must-see". Awesome music, nice effects and great atmosphere.
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Post by: AntiBlitz on August 21, 2013, 11:32:02 pm
By Asian film, do you mean "combat" asian films ? Films with mainly asian actors ? Films directed by an asian ?
If it's not the first, i'd gladly throw out "Avalon", 2001, from Mamoru Oshii. A "must-see". Awesome music, nice effects and great atmosphere.
ya thats a good question, few more to narrow it down, do you plan on reading captions while watching? or do you want english voices over top of their mouthing?
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Post by: Jarold on August 21, 2013, 11:34:22 pm
My Way is a pretty good movie, not sure if it's an Asian company who made it but it has Asian languages and actors. Then again it also has Russians, germans, and the rare americans from time to time.
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Post by: Kalam on August 21, 2013, 11:39:18 pm
Most recently, Dragon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1718199/) was awesome- if you liked 13 Assassins, well, you'll love that. Internal Affairs was already mentioned. There were a lot of decent Hong Kong produced cop dramas from the nineties.
Hardboiled (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hard_boiled/) pretty much introduced Gun Fu to the world.
I Not Stupid (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/xiaohai-bu-ben-i-not-stupid/) was pretty great, though I feel like a lot of it may not have the same impact if you've never been around that culture.
Be With Me (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463903/), if you're into the tortured, depressing indie movie thing.
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Post by: Lizard_man on August 22, 2013, 12:16:31 am
ya thats a good question, few more to narrow it down, do you plan on reading captions while watching? or do you want english voices over top of their mouthing?
From what I gathered, and the films he's watched. Not really looking for samurai or war films, and he watches them in their native language, probably with subtitles...
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Post by: Sir_Hans on August 22, 2013, 10:10:34 am
Just watched "Old Boy"
That movie was long... and interesting. Engaging I think would be the most descriptive word for it. Fight choreography and camera work was awesome. Plot was a mind trip. Definitely made me laugh a few times too.
Gotta say though, I'm a bigger fan of Hara Kiri :3
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Post by: Prpavi on August 22, 2013, 01:07:42 pm
Snakes and Earrings.
Tatoos, piercings, sodomy, true love. Japan.
p.s. thx for making this thread, heaven't watched much asian moveis, will definitely check some recommended here.
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Post by: Latrinenkobold on August 22, 2013, 02:45:26 pm
A chinese ghost story :D
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Post by: Casimir on August 22, 2013, 04:30:09 pm
Red Cliff
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Post by: Angantyr on August 22, 2013, 05:24:59 pm