favorite asian movies

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Permalink Reply by pedro on March 8, 2008 at 8:45pm

casshern is pretty awesome although it stops making sense halfway through, another good movie is ong-bak

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Permalink Reply by PREÐATOR on March 8, 2008 at 8:51pm

Ricki-Oh!!

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Permalink Reply by twreckx on March 9, 2008 at 7:31am

Nowhere To Hide (1999) Director: Lee Myung Se

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Permalink Reply by Nnie on March 9, 2008 at 6:21pm

Ringu
Hero
Ichi the Killer
2LDK
3... Extremes
Audition
A Tale of Two Sisters
Wishing Stairs
Oldboy

Animated:
ANYTHING Miyazaki
Grave of the Fireflies
Perfect Blue
Paprika
Ghost in the Shell

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Permalink Reply by Choker on December 18, 2008 at 12:12pm

battle royale

zatoichi

and im going to see suicide circle soon

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Permalink Reply by Hiphop-popatomus on December 18, 2008 at 12:31pm

I just saw Sukiyaki Western: Djamgo and to be honest I was a bit let down by it. It really did not do anything new for me at all. I felt that I've seen everything it had to offer before.

Audition on the other hand was great. I felt that it was really tense and creepy since I kinda already knew what was going to happen but still wished to see how it progressed. If you liked Audition there is a particularly brutal movie called Battle Royal. It's where adults take a class room of kids, put them on an island and force all of them to kill each other...Condemned ripped this idea off but Battle did it much better. (You actually get to see the action.) I also heard that Suicide Club was good and I have it in the store that I work at. I might go pick it up as well and tell you how that turns out.

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Permalink Reply by Laharl on November 16, 2009 at 3:24am

For Suicide Club/circle get ready to say to yourself while the credits are rolling "wait......what?....wtf did i just watch?"
Not saying its bad...just the ending had me confused lol.

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Permalink Reply by Inkovic on December 18, 2008 at 12:44pm

Anything by Studio Ghibli
Akira
End of Evangelion



on the non-animated front you can't go wrong with Rashomon

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Permalink Reply by PoopaPapaSanta on December 18, 2008 at 12:51pm

Anything by Akira Kurosawa---yes, even Dreams...
Anything by the Ghibli.
Every single Godzilla movie.

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Permalink Reply by Bautou on December 18, 2008 at 2:53pm

Well... I'm happy you asked.

If I split it up into China, Korea, and Japan, I'd have to say the following:

China: Two of the absolutely best films I've ever seen out of China were
THE BLADE (Staring Vincent Zhao)

1996 I think the Best Kung fu movie ever, why? No so much for the choreography as for the brilliant directing and editing of the film. The subject matter in the film addresses the innate carnal and social power forces within men and applies it all to the best kicks story ever. This movie is hard to find, but once you have it, you'll never let it go. Also, TEMPTATION OF A MONK

(aka You Seng staring Zhang Fengyi- who you may know from The Emperor and the Assassin-

the third best movie out of China) 1993 Just a good, powerful story about a KICKASS war general who becomes a monk and is later tempted to return to his lustful and violent past. Solid movie.

Korea: SHIRI

a nice paced action thriller about a North Korean assassin working to destroy the truce between North and South Korea great cast. Also, THE HOST

Hilarious fun monster movie

Japan?
MACHINE GIRL

comes to mind. If you like over the top CRAZY SHIT you could laugh at, you'll love that film. If looking for something a little more serious, I'm a big fan of three films done by Takeshi Kitano they are the following (and I'd recommend watching them in this order). Sonatine

, Fireworks

, and Brother

. Takeshi tends to make some pretty fatalistic movies, so if you don't like that stuff, THIS IS YOUR WARNING, but they are good solid films.

Well, there you go! Hope that was a help ; )

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Permalink Reply by Timmy Cupcakes on December 18, 2008 at 4:11pm

The Young Master
Drunken Master
Grave of the Fireflies
Battle Royale

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Permalink Reply by Aimal Khan on December 18, 2008 at 5:45pm

i have seen alot of asian movies. here are a few that everyone should watch

my sassy girl.
vengence trilogy
a bittersweet life.
daisy
hero
and many more....

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