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laughwithm3

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If OP likes war-related films, Silmido and Taegukgi are two great Korean cinemas worth seeing. China had many great war filmed made in the 50s and 60s, but if you think Hero is overly patriotic, then you probably wont enjoy the stuff i watched growing up, like Dongcun Rui XD
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Originally Posted by laughwithm3
If OP likes war-related films, Silmido and Taegukgi are two great Korean cinemas worth seeing.
China had many great war filmed made in the 50s and 60s, but if you think Hero is overly patriotic, then you probably wont enjoy the stuff i watched growing up, like Dongcun Rui XD
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I remember that movie. I have seen it several times when I was younger. It was shown to us by the school too to increase our national pride. Good times.
 

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I generally try to catch some Asian film at the Melbourne Film Festival - often they don't get a release here otherwise. One of my favourites this year was Treeless Mountain, a touching story from S. Korea. Horrors of Malformed Men was pretty confronting, if you don't mind an older film. I didn't see the Korean serial killer film The Chaser, but there was very good buzz about it. From previous years, Ashes of Time Redux was a superb film and Mongol was an absolute ripper.
 

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In the Mood for Love is one of the best movies I have ever seen.
 

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Originally Posted by laughwithm3
Chan-wook Park's revenge triology is definitely worth checking out as well.

+1 Oldboy is an amazing piece of cinema and equally sickening as it is mesmerizing. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance was also terrific. He is like the korean Tarantino with less of the "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" kitsch factor.

Wong Kar Wai is amazing in a very different way with nearly scriptless experiential movies of staggering visual beauty. In the mood for love, 2046, Chungking Express and Happy Together are amazing movies, although he does have some duds (Blueberry Nights!).

I also like the non-arthouse flicks which probably don't get much play outside of asia - Chinese romantic comedies are terrific as are the gangster flicks like Gu Wak Jai (Young and Dangerous series).

One of my all time favorites is an early Chow Yun Fat movie called "All About Ah-Long" which is a true hokey tearjerker of the best kind. Also love "Comrades, Almost a Love Story".
 

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(SPOILER: Links are film fragments) Infernal Affairs from Hong Kong is 100% great. They display the suffering and despair so well, especially this scene which The Departed lacks with "I gotta score pills or I'm gonna off myself". Hard Boiled The Killer, my fav John Woo movie. A Better Tomorrow has so much style sometimes. I loved that restaurant scene and how he walks in. A Better Tomorrow 2 with that last stand-off was crazy. This.
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Exiled Election had some great scenes, like the boat scene. The sequels lack something without that actor. Not that much into drama, but I loved these: 2046 In The Mood For Love Chungking Express I'm slowely expanding to Korea, seen a few already... Good thing it's not that hard with so many great cinema. Saw Oldboy and absolutely loved it. Planning to see more drama or action from there (Windstruck, Il Mare or something next).
 

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Il Mare is a "Korean melodrama", basically a tearjerkerX100. Those are fun because they really seem to be a unique cultural product.
 

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Originally Posted by laughwithm3
If OP likes war-related films, Silmido and Taegukgi are two great Korean cinemas worth seeing.
China had many great war filmed made in the 50s and 60s, but if you think Hero is overly patriotic, then you probably wont enjoy the stuff i watched growing up, like Dongcun Rui XD
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This is unreal. I now remember seeing that movie. I must have been 6 or younger, but I definitely remember that scene. I tried googling for it, but couldnt find much info. Is it even listed on wikipedia or imdb?
 

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Originally Posted by heli0x
This is unreal. I now remember seeing that movie. I must have been 6 or younger, but I definitely remember that scene. I tried googling for it, but couldnt find much info. Is it even listed on wikipedia or imdb?

haha, i loved that movie when i was young, especially the part he goes "Long live the people's republic of China"

couldn't find it on imdb.com, but imdb.cn has it, http://www.imdb.cn/title/tt9000447
 

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Originally Posted by Fuuma
Il Mare is a "Korean melodrama", basically a tearjerkerX100. Those are fun because they really seem to be a unique cultural product.
Yeah, "Il Mare" or "Shee Eul Eh" is the name that you'll find it under. That Sandra Bullock Keanu Reeves movie "The Lakehouse" was ripped from it. I kind of enjoyed it though... I did not know that Oldboy was part of a trilogy. I hope that I'm Korean enough to appreciate them all. Also, +1 on the Tae Guk Gi recommendation. Although it's definitely of the Korean tearjerker variety, which they seem to have a large market for...
 

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Itchi the Killer, makes quintin tarantino want to piss and laugh at the same time in his sleep.

The Vengeance Trilogy by park chan-wook, the most famous one is probably Old Boy, but I enjoy all three, for the really wild and Effd up $hit. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance for the 1st and 3rd installment.

Goemon, recent Japanese blockbuster after hollywood renovation, really the story is as pathetic as the shallowest of hollywood popcorn flicks, but it's got over-the-top custume designs and CGIed ninja-samurai fighting, makes anything you've seen about martial arts action like joke (coming from a Chinese who grew up watching martial arts films, that says a lot, in another word, Chinese martial arts films should take a lesson or two from this). Also tons of those 300, Sin City style green screen acting, Japanese cinema is catching up with technologies.

Silmido and Taegukgi are good calls, I enjoy war movies or more manly movies (the ones you can proudly shed some manly tears at), the only other one good on par with those two in my mind, is The Assembly by Zhang Yi Mou.

One worth noting Chinese film is Summer Palace by Lou Ye, tons of full frontal nudity and sex scenes, shocking for a legitimate Chinese cinema, also it subtley dips into the tiananmen square "incident" of 89, warrants the director banned from doing all cinema related activities in the motherland for a good 5 years, for that you should watch it.
 

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So far I've only read contemporary film? How about Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa? The Human Condition by Masaki Kobayashi (I'd say the film's title would have to be horrific pretense, hyperbole or self-effacement if I hadn't seen it and it wasn't so incredible) or The Pornographers by Imamura. In fact, who are THE film makers in Japan these days? I've seen a lot of populist fare listed here (and GREAT populist fare at that, don't get me wrong) but I haven't seen a lot of cinemalist cinema, if you catch my drift. Who are the new film makers making people think and feel, in other words.
 

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I highly recommend Bong Joon-ho's movies: Memories of Murder, The Host, and Madeo are all excellent. Some other South Korean movies worth checking out: A Dirty Carnival (about a small-time gangster), Save the Green Planet (nutty sci-fi comedy), A Tale of Two Sisters (psychological horror/ghost story).
 

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We've got to keep this thread going for the sake of Asian Style.

I love infernal affairs for sure. Also, like the Brotherhood of War.
 

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