Here is most of my collection on Asian movie books. Feel free to ask about any specific title. I have not read all of them, some of them I just use for reference and some of them like Ric Meyers I read once
. Links are to my long-winded reviews. I will take suggestions to ones I do not have and should get.
NR = Not Read; I do not include the encyclopedia ones as NR since I tend to peruse them but not read front to back (sometimes I do though.)
Asian Generic
Hong Kong Action Cinema (1996) by Bey Logan
Video Hound's Dragon: Asian Action & Cult Flicks (2003) by Brian Thomas Foreward Cynthia Rothrock
The Shaw Screen: A Preliminary Study (HKFA) NR
Hong Kong Filmography Vol. 2 1942 – 1949 (HKFA)
Chang Cheh: A Memoir (HKFA) (2004) by Chang Cheh, Preface John Woo, Sek Kei, Edited by Wong Ain-ling
China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema (2008) Edited by Poshek Fu
Great Martial Art Movies (2001) by Richard Meyers
Films of Fury: The Kung Fu Movie Book (2011) by Richard Meyers
Kung Fu: Cinema of Vengeance (1974) by Verina Glassner
Chinese Cinema During the Era of Reform (2003) by Ying Zhu
Asian Horror (2010) by Andy Richards
Spooky Encounters: A Gwailo’s Guide to Hong Kong Horror (2003) by Daniel O’Brien NR
100 Must See Hong Kong Movies by Sam Ho (small book)
The Hong Kong Filmography, 1977-1997 (2000) by John Charles
Planet Hong Kong (2000) by David Bordwell
Planet Hong Kong 2[sup]nd[/sup] Edition (2011) by David Bordwell (PDF)
Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra Dimensions (1997) by Stephen Teo
Encyclopedia of Chinese Film (1999) by Yingjin Zhang
At the Hong Kong Movies (1999) Paul Fonoroff
Asian Pop Cinema: Bombay to Tokyo (1998) by Lee Server
Hong Kong Babylon (1998) by Fredric Dannen, Barry Long
Letters of the Dragon (1998) by Bruce Lee, Edited by John Little
China on Screen: Cinema and Nation (2006) by Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar
Chasing Dragons: An Introduction to the Martial Arts Film (2006) by David West
The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity (2006) Edited by Poshek Fu and David Desser
At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World (2001) Edited by Esther C.M. Yau
City on Fire: Hong Kong Cinema (1999) by Lisa Odham Stokes and Michael Hoover
The A to Z of Hong Kong Cinema (2010) by Lisa Odham Stokes
Hollywood East (2000) by Stefan Hammond
Sex and Zen and a Bullet in the Head (1996) by Stefan Hammond & Mike Wilkins
Once Upon a Time in China (2003) by Jeff Yang
Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong (2007) by Martha P. Nochimson
The Ultimate Guide to Martial Arts Movies of the 1970s (2008) by Dr. Craig D. Reid
Kung Fu Cult Masters (2003) by Leon Hunt
Director in Action: Johnnie To and the Hong Kong Action Film (2007) by Stephen Teo
John Woo Interviews (2005) Edited by Robert K. Elder
John Woo: The Films (1999) by Kenneth E. Hall
John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow (2004) by Karen Fang NR
Zhang Yimou: Interviews (2001) Edited by Frances K. Gateward NR
Wong Kar-wai: Auteur of Time (2005) by Stephen Teo
Jackie Chan
I am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action (1998) by Jackie Chan, Jeff Yang
Jackie Chan: The Best of Inside Kung Fu (1998) by John Little, Long Cheng
Jackie Chan: Inside the Dragon (1997) by Clyde Gentry III
The Unauthorized Jackie Chan Encyclopedia (2002) by John Corcoran
The Essential Jackie Chan Sourebook (1997) by Jeff Rovin
Japanese
A Hundred Years of Japanese Film (2005) by Donald Richie Forward by Paul Schrader
Samurai Film (2006) by Alain Silver
The Warriors Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa (1991) by Stephen Prince NR
The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune (2002) by Stuart Galbraith IV NR
Transcendental tyle in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (1972) by Paul Schrader NR
The Films of Akira Kurosawa 3[sup]rd[/sup] and Expanded, New Epilogue (1999) by Donald Richie
The Films of Akira Kurosawa 3[sup]rd[/sup] and Expanded (1996) by Donald Richie
Akira Kurosawa Interviews (2007) Edited by Bert Cardullo
Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema (2000) by Mitshuhiro Yoshimoto
Akira Kurosawa: Something Like an Autobiography (1983) by Akira Kurosawa, Audie E. Bock (Translator)
I just bought a copy of A Study of Hong Kong Cinema in the Seventies by Urban Council (1984) but have yet to receive it. I have several more PDF books. I have a few more pamphlet, small essays books I’ll have to put down. Lots of magazines.