What Asian Films Should Be Looked Forward To?

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 21 Dec 2005, 23:40

Hong Kong:
Dragon Tiger Gate

Director: Wilson Yip
Cast: Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse, Shawn Yue

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After "Sha Po Lang" comes the next modern day martial arts film from director Wislon Yip, again with Donnie Yen as the action director and lead actor.
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Links:
Official Website
Download Teaser

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South Korea:
Host, The - Gwoemul

Release date: July 2006
Cast & director picture:

from left: Bae Doona, Park Hae-il, Song Kangho, Byeon Hee-bong, director Bong Joonho.

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Kang-doo runs a small shop with his father on the banks of the Han River. Kang-doo's sole joy in this world is his young daughter for whom he would do anything. But his quiet life is unexpectedly shattered when a huge monster emerges from the Han and begins devouring people. The movie stars Song Kang-ho (The President's Barber, Antarctic Journal) as Kang-doo who is dragged into the affair when tragedy strikes his small family. His father is Byeon Hee-bong (Crying Fist, Memories Of Murder) and others in his family include Bae Doo-na (Take Care Of My Cat, Tube) as his sister, Park Hae-il (My Mother The Mermaid, Memories Of Murder) as his brother and Ko A-seong debuting as his daughter. Many other familiar faces will appear such as Park No-shik (Kwang-ho from Memories Of Murder) and even the director of Antarctic Journal, Im Pil-sung, will make his second film appearance (his first was in No Blood No Tears). Directing the star-studded cast is rising star Bong Joon-ho (Barking Dogs Never Bite, Memories Of Murder). This Chungeorahm thriller, which features special effects from San Francisco-based company The Orphanage, will be released in late spring/early summer 2006.
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Links:
Download the Teaser
Ofiicial Website - (Flash Teaser)
Song Kang-ho about "The Host"

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Shadowless Sword

The same director and lead actor from "Bichunmoo". This is also distributed by New Line Cinema.

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After the fall of Sanggyongryongchonbu, the capital of Palhae in the year A.D 926, Georan tribe establishes ‘Dongrankook’ meaning ‘Georan of the East’. Dongrankook dispatches Chucksaldan, a group of the hit squads and sweeps out the royal family in order to prevent a reconstruction of Palhae. Resistants who are composed of the rest of the followers of Palhae leave to find out the family member of the king, who is able to rebuild Palhae.

Daejeonghyun, the last prince of Palhae
When Daesoohyun, the last member of the royal family is killed by ‘Chucksaldan’ Lim Sun-Ji, the minister of Palhae is reminded of one person in a full of mournful atmosphere. Daejeonghyun, the last prince of Palhae who has been forgotten from people’ memory since he was involved in the political strife of the royal family and condemned to exile 14 years ago! Now he is the only hope.

Yeonsoha, the best woman warrior of Palhae
Yeonsoha with an image of graceful and straight figure is the best woman warrior of Palhae, who always carries a shadowless sword (Mooyoungkeom) and shows a moderate swordmanship. She takes up the task of bringing Daejeonghyun to the camp safely in order to make him a king of Palhae.

Now a missing story begins!
Daejeonghyun is living as ‘Sosam’, a dealer in stolen goods with forgetting he was once a king and Yeonsoha has to take him to a journey in order to make him a king. They are chased by Kunhwapyoung, a head of Chucksaldam, and his follower, Maeyoungok along with the best skilled soldiers who are allured by Georan. Now a story of the pursuer and the pursued is unfold!
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Official Website
Picture Gallery
Direct download of the trailer can be found at this thread at KFCC.
http://www.kfccinema.com/xtemplex/index ... topic=1870
Hot-linking is not allowed there, hence the link to the thread.

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Typhoon

Jang Dong-gun looks uber-cool in this film.

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South Korea's new big-budget movie Typhoon drew 1.8 million people during its first five days in theaters, topping the weekend box office and setting a local box-office record for this year, its distributor said Monday.

The action film released nationwide last Wednesday broke the August record of 1.4 million by Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, a prize-winning thriller directed by Park Chan-wook, CJ Entertainment said.

The blockbuster directed by Kwak Kyong-taek ("Friend", "Champion") has been the talk of the town because of its star actors, record budget and theme of inter-Korean confrontation. The plot centers on an attempt by a North Korean pirate, played by Jang Dong-gun, to make a nuclear attack on the Korean Peninsula, and efforts by a South Korean agent, played by Lee Jung-jae, to stop him. The agent comes to sympathize with the North Korean, who grew up penniless in China after witnessing as a child the massacre of his family after a failed attempt to seek asylum in the South.

Shot in South Korea, Thailand and Russia, Typhoon cost 15 billion won ($14.7 million) for production and 4 billion won for publicity.

"Typhoon" was released on the highest number of screens, 540, at 115 theaters nationwide.

DreamWorks is set to distribute Typhoon, the most expensive Korean film ever made, in North America in 2006. It will be the first Korean film released by a major U.S. studio.
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Official Website
Picture Gallery
Direct download of the trailer can be found at this thread at KFCC.
http://www.kfccinema.com/xtemplex/index ... topic=1870
Hot-linking is not allowed there, hence the link to the thread.

BiscLimpkit · Post by **BiscLimpkit** » 22 Dec 2005, 07:56

How's about that new movie about South Koreans beating each other up?

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 22 Dec 2005, 08:51

If you're talking about Geochilmaru (the showdown), it's not exactly a new movie.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 22 Dec 2005, 09:11

Yeah, I thought about inserting that here. It is also known as "The Showdown". But as Tom said, it's not really a movie.

Will add movies whenever I remember or come across an interesting one.

Currently, I'm mostly looking looking forward to "Typhoon".

ReconFive · Post by **ReconFive** » 22 Dec 2005, 09:14

thelostdragon wrote:Currently, I'm mostly looking looking forward to "Typhoon".

Likewise, and can't wait for that one. JDG does look badass

Bong Joon-ho's "The Host" is a close 2nd.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 22 Dec 2005, 17:17

Why Typhoon guys?

The same director and lead actor from "Bichunmoo". This is also distributed by New Line Cinema.

The cover art + New Line are enough to make me want to see this. I love period action flicks.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 22 Dec 2005, 21:03

bradavon wrote:Why Typhoon guys?

Did you read about it in my top post and have you seen the trailer? That's why!

SpiDER · Post by **SpiDER** » 01 Jan 2006, 12:15

Anybody else interted in The Duelist? Ordered it yesterday - trailer looks good and I like Korean swordplay

BiscLimpkit · Post by **BiscLimpkit** » 01 Jan 2006, 13:54

Woah never realised it was released already.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 01 Jan 2006, 14:38

Hopefully it will be aven a little bit as good as Nowhere to Hide, well we can hope.

and not one of the trailer links work at all by the way as you haver to be a member it says, no way I am joining that place!

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 01 Jan 2006, 14:52

Yeah, "The Duellist" looks awesome. i will definitely buy that film.

romerojpg wrote:and not one of the trailer links work at all by the way as you haver to be a member it says, no way I am joining that place!

No joining = no trailer. It's up to you. Nobody expects you to post there, lol. I don't either, only very rarely.

SpiDER · Post by **SpiDER** » 01 Jan 2006, 23:01

try asiandb.com for trailers ... it pretty much has every major Korean movie release. No subs though

brooce-leroy · Post by **brooce-leroy** » 02 Jan 2006, 19:21

Any good Hong Kong movies to look out for this year? SPL is the best HK movie I've seen in ages. I also recently watched Election, and I would have had more fun watch snails doing a marathon. It could have had something to do with me watching a Mandarin dub with no English subs though, although I can't always tell with Jonnie To movies.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 03 Jan 2006, 22:57

Any good Hong Kong movies to look out for this year ?

-Fearless aka Huo Yuan-Jia (Ronny Yu - Jet Li)
-Project BB (Jackie Chan - Yuen Biao - maybe Sammo Hung)
-Shopaholic (Lau Ching-Wan - Cecilia Cheung - Lunar New Year comedy)
-Battle of the Red Cliff (John Woo - Chow Yun-Fat)
-Daisy (Andrew Lau - Jeon Ji-Hyun - Melodrama)
-Chinese Tall Story (Jeff Lau - Charlene Choi)
-The Postmodern Life of my Aunt (Ann Hui - Chow Yun-Fat)
-Dragon Tiger Gate (Donnie Yen)
-Pattaya Paradise (US/Thai/HK production)
-Muk Kong (WuXia with Andy Lau, Fan Bing-Bing and Ahn Sung-Ki)
-49 days (Drama with Gillian Chung and Stephen Fung)
-The Sparrow (Johnnie To - Simon Yam)

To be confirmed:
-Cops and Ghosts (Wong Jing - Yuen Wah)
-McDull live motion picture (Peter Chan - Eric Tsang)
-Tekken (Takeshi Kaneshiro - Zhao Wei)

gojensen · Post by **gojensen** » 04 Jan 2006, 08:22

Dragon Tiger Gate (Donnie Yen)

lol... so this is... erm... Chinese Watergate?

:drunken:

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 09 Apr 2006, 02:34

Added to the first page:

- Dragon Tiger Gate: New Title
- The Host: Teaser, poster and official website link.

https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... 9105#19105

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Man, can't wait for "The Host". Song Kang-ho looks uber-cool with blond hair. I love this actor.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 09 Apr 2006, 08:54

Japan:
The Last Love Song on This Little Planet (Saishû heiki kanojo)

Director: Taikan Suga
Cast: Aki Maeda, Shunsuke Kubozuka, Ryô Kimura, Shihori Kanjiya
Official site: http://www.saikano-movie.com/
Trailer: http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/movie/2006_s ... aikano.asx

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Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachtani?

Director: Shinji Aoyama
Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Aoi Miyazaki, Mariko Okada, Masaya Nakahar, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Masahiro Toda
Official Site: http://www.elieli.jp/top.htm

"Late autumn, 2015: The world is in the grips of a mysterious virus, nicknamed the Lemming Syndrome because those infected develop a depression so strong they commit suicide. Musicians Mizui (the ubiquitous Tadanobu Asano) and Asuhara (Masaya Nakahara), of the post-punk group Stepin Fetchit, may have found a way to alleviate the disease's symptoms through dissonant sound.”
- Variety

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Tokyo Zombie (Tôkyô zonbi)

Director: Sakichi Satô
Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Shô Aikawa, Erika Okuda,
Arata Furuta, Hina Matsuoka, Yasuhi Nakamura
Official Site: http://www.tokyo-zombie.com/

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 09 Apr 2006, 15:33

Title: Running Wild
Country: Korea
Year: 2006
Director: Kim Sung-Soo
Actors: Yu Ji-Tae (Oldboy), Kwon Sang-Wu (Volcano High, Make it Big)
Release date: January 2006
DVD release: late april, early may.

Some sort of cross between A Bittersweet Life and Oldboy.

Streaming trailer:
mms://vod.cine21.com/cine21.com/movie/trailer/2005/09/beast_teaser_tr_300k.wmv

Thanks to Jang Gerald on the hkmania forums.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 09 Apr 2006, 15:40

"Running Wild" is out on DVD already. I'm waiting for the director's cut release in May.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 09 Apr 2006, 15:50

"Running Wild" is out on DVD already

You sure ?
On DVD-Asian it says April 14th.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 09 Apr 2006, 19:30

YesAsia has it in stock since April 5th.

memetic · Post by **memetic** » 27 Apr 2006, 23:28

Came across this yesterday, sounds like one to definitely look forward to!

Doomsday Book (working title) is a 3-part anthology due early 2007.

- Chapter I (SF/Drama): Directed by KIM Jee-woon (A Bittersweet Life)
- Chapter II (Horror): Directed by IM Pil-sung (Antarctic Journal)
- Chapter III (SF/Musical): Directed by HAN Jae-rim (Rules of Dating)

I think Antarctic Journal is one of the more underrated Korean films in the last couple of years, so I'm really looking forward to what Im Pil-sung will come up with. And an "SF/Musical"? Can't go wrong.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 27 Apr 2006, 23:46

I liked "Antarctic Journal". But I wonder if it would have been the same without Song Kang-ho and the wonderful soundtrack by Kenji Kawai.

Gave it 4/5.

memetic · Post by **memetic** » 28 Apr 2006, 00:21

When I think back on it, I don't even really remember the music. Even though there were a lot of "top" actors in this film, the film itself isn't an actors' film to the degree that some are (particularly with novice directors so I'm impressed that it wasn't the case with this one). I like the overall vision of the film and the fact that it didn't sit firmly in a particular genre.

Unfortunately, it's these bold first-time director efforts that we'll probably no longer see once the Korean screen quota restrictions come into effect.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 28 Apr 2006, 00:23

memetic wrote:Unfortunately, it's these bold first-time director efforts that we'll probably no longer see once the Korean screen quota restrictions come into effect.

Can you explain please?