Current state of Asian films...

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 11 Mar 2008, 20:18

Watch:
Boiling Point
Hana & Alice
The Hidden Fortress
Happiness of the Katakuris
Ikiru
The Lower Depths
Naked Island
One Wonderful Sunday
Red Beard
Waterboys

Of the rest I either dunno or you can bin them.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 11 Mar 2008, 20:29

And I thought I was the only one who had stacks of unwatched films

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 11 Mar 2008, 21:40

I think HK Cinema is loosing its appeal because many of its main representatives, Jackie Chan, John Woo, are not making the effort

In 98, Jackie had a reputation amongst film goers for being cooler than ice. But after 2002, the reputation began to wear off, with his mild family films and son

DVD wise, Weinstein buggers up a lot of good distribution. A lot of the DVDs get scuppered by poor quality control from the likes of Celestial, Fortune Star, etc. The films remain great but it becomes kind of frustrating seeing wasted opportunity after wasted opportunirty...

Japanese films! Love em! Spent £25 on an unsubtitled King Kong Vs Godzilla with no regrets!

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 12 Mar 2008, 16:04

Ivan Drago wrote:Japanese films! Love em! Spent £25 on an unsubtitled King Kong Vs Godzilla with no regrets!

Unsubtitled? How could you follow what the beasts were saying!

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 12 Mar 2008, 16:18

Shingster wrote:
Ivan Drago wrote:Japanese films! Love em! Spent £25 on an unsubtitled King Kong Vs Godzilla with no regrets!
Unsubtitled? How could you follow what the beasts were saying!

Simple. take up classes in Esperanto!

Ricochan38 · Post by **Ricochan38** » 13 Mar 2008, 08:58

My main interest is korean movies these days, i watch about 10-15 new ones every month, after that i watch thai movies, then some HK, some Japanese and then i also watch the american movies that i can get my hands on, so i am very very busy watching them all

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 13 Mar 2008, 09:09

10-5 a month!

Ricochan38 · Post by **Ricochan38** » 13 Mar 2008, 09:20

I try to watch at least 1 movie per day, so you can watch about 30 per month

memetic · Post by **memetic** » 14 Mar 2008, 02:17

Wow, so you'd actually be able to watch every Korean film made each year and still be able to watch older films too! They only made about 80 films last year.

I still see good flicks from Asia but I don't have that anticipation and excitement that I used to. Still great stuff coming out of Japan... absolutely loved Koreeda's "Hana yori mo naho" and Miike's "Crows: Episode 0" was very enjoyable.

Johnnie To's still got the goods in Hong Kong, and watched Edmond Pang's "Exodus" last week which was very awesome.

South Korean has usually been my favourite but haven't seen anything amazing lately. "Secret Sunshine" was quite good though.

Ricochan, seen any really good Korean stuff lately?

Ricochan38 · Post by **Ricochan38** » 14 Mar 2008, 08:13

best korean movies i have seen this month, and must see movies;

seven days - brilliant thriller !
rainbow eyes - also a very good murder mystery thriller

drama movies i saw not long ago and also enjoyed

happiness
a love

and very good comedy !;

going by the book
venus and mars
le grand chef

this weekend i wil watch

crazy for wait (2007)

and

scout (2007)

oh and i agree on EXODUS, that was a very good dark comedy, highly enjoyed that one !

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 14 Mar 2008, 13:46

"A Love" was in theatres when I was in Seoul in September and there was advertising for it literally EVERYWHERE! Well, it had its effect as I bought the DVD when it was released.

Ricochan38 · Post by **Ricochan38** » 14 Mar 2008, 14:05

thelostdragon wrote:"A Love" was in theatres when I was in Seoul in September and there was advertising for it literally EVERYWHERE! Well, it had its effect as I bought the DVD when it was released.

You went to seoul? thats cool...I still want to go to Korea...I hope next year i can go there sometime

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 14 Mar 2008, 15:01

Ricochan38 wrote:
thelostdragon wrote:"A Love" was in theatres when I was in Seoul in September and there was advertising for it literally EVERYWHERE! Well, it had its effect as I bought the DVD when it was released.
You went to seoul? thats cool...I still want to go to Korea...I hope next year i can go there sometime

I'm going again in April. As for my impressions from the last time:
https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... php?t=3915

Risk · Post by **Risk** » 15 Apr 2008, 00:06

I've enjoyed a few Mainland Chinese movies in recent years such as Crazy Stone and Getting Home (aka Air), which is more than what I've enjoyed or rather has lived up to the hype of Hong Kong films.

It would seem though that Thai cinema is where it is at when it comes to martial arts films.