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I am not going to participate in this because I don't have much free time. However, I wish to add that today I will be watching again one of the best science fiction anime films ever made: Wings of Honneamise.
Asian Movie Challenge
In order to create some more discussion/awareness of Asian cinema I decided to challenge our forum members. The challenge is simple: watch movies from Asian countries. Then you can discuss them obviously. We can talk about the challenge or whatever until the challenge actually starts.
The challenge starts on May 1st and will run through August 31st.
- Only feature films count
- Rewatches count, but a film will only count once for you.
- If a film is from one of these countries it counts
I will keep tally in this post and have a leaderboard. If you want to participate just let me know and I will add your name.
Participants
- jiraffejustin
- wintertriangles
- The Gunslinger45
- Sane
- TokeZa
- Daniel M
- Godoggo
- Zotis
- Frightened Inmate No. 2
- donniedarko
- Cobpyth
- christine
- moviefan1996
- bluedeed
- RepentantSky
The challenge starts on May 1st and will run through August 31st.
- Only feature films count
- Rewatches count, but a film will only count once for you.
- If a film is from one of these countries it counts
I will keep tally in this post and have a leaderboard. If you want to participate just let me know and I will add your name.
Participants
- jiraffejustin
- wintertriangles
- The Gunslinger45
- Sane
- TokeZa
- Daniel M
- Godoggo
- Zotis
- Frightened Inmate No. 2
- donniedarko
- Cobpyth
- christine
- moviefan1996
- bluedeed
- RepentantSky
Deool ( temple )---
This is not a Bollywood movie . Bollywood movies are in the hindi language . This is a film in my mother tongue which is the marathi language .
After a really long time I saw a marathi film , that too only on TV---largely because all my friends were recommending it on facebook , and also because it won the national award in 2012 .
The setting---a village called Mangrul in a godforsaken part of Maharashtra state in India.....
There is scarcity of everything---no water , no electricity , no roads , no employment.....
In this village a simple guy called Keshav who owns and dearly loves his cow called Kardi gets a vision of god besides a particular tree ; a vision sanctified by his cow closely touching the tree.
Simple godfearing man that he is , and superstitious due to illiteracy , he goes about shouting in the village that he has seen god in the tree.....
At first , the villagers laugh it off ; they may be simple village folk , but this is the 21st century and even they are not going to be fooled by such visions.....
Of course , there are a few who genuinely believe Keshav , like the local politician's ( played by Nana Patekar ) wife ( played by Sonali Kulkarni ) , but they fail to realise the explosive potential of such visions.....
......That potential is realised by an intrepid journalist who asks the young men of the village to announce the building of a a temple to the god at the site of the tree in the village---all without permission of the village elders.
However , once the news of the vision and the building of the temple is published by the journalist in the newspaper , there is no going back .
Those who opposed it , like Nana Patekar also have to fall in line as people from other parts start flocking the site of the alleged ' vision ' .
Only one man , the wisest man in the village ( played by Dilip Prabhavalkar ) opposes the temple which will forever destroy the calm and peace of the pristine land .
But who has time for such odd and eccentric people like him ?? Everyone wants to put the village on the map.....
And everyone wants the moolah and the progress that will inevitably come with the building of the temple and flocking of worshipers to this remote corner of Maharashtra .
And so the wise man's plans for building of a hospital are discarded and a temple is built .
.....And like god's miracle , the village is transformed.....
Thousands of worshipers flock to the village . Stalls are opened selling various pooja items , food , cold drinks---all offering much needed employment for the village folk . Development comes , and the powerful people of the village find their hands full of cash . Grand plans are made to build an even bigger temple , and villages in the vicinity also start dreaming of having their own miracles and subsequent temples .
Only the wise old man thinks that all this is crass commercialisation of god and leaves the village---no one cares.....
But what about the simple godfearing man Keshav who had the vision ?? He too , like the wise old man is impractical and refuses to fall in line with the dictates of commercialisation---he , in fact is the only true believer and his faith in god is too pure to be polluted thus......
.....And for this very reason he is utterly discarded and forgotten , the benefits of his vision being totally taken up by those with smart and practical minds---the politicians , in fact.....
His cow , whom has been kept as an object of veneration in the temple too dies , and no one cares---she is simply replaced by a new and younger cow......
Dejected and heartbroken by people's commercialisation of god , seeing his family members and girlfriend too get caught in the wave and lure of money , he wanders away only to see another vision of god---indicating to him that he must steal the idol in the temple and free god from the prison of commercialisation that has imprisoned him.....
So he steals the idol and immerses it in a river which will carry it into the welcoming ocean.....
For the people of the village , the problem is not about the stolen idol .They dont care . All they care about is the money the idol used to bring along with other benefits . But the only problem now is---how will the show go on ??
No problem---they just bring another idol with due procession and carry on with business as usual.....
No one even remembers the old idol and the man who discovered god in the village---as the wise old man had said , they are merely specks in vast stage of time and are forgotten.....
Life goes on......
The hero of the film ( played by Girish Kulkarni ) has put a truely authentic show of acting and is the heart of the film , though others like Nana , Sonali and Dilip have done well themselves.....
Verdict---good , if you are an art film buff....
This is not a Bollywood movie . Bollywood movies are in the hindi language . This is a film in my mother tongue which is the marathi language .
After a really long time I saw a marathi film , that too only on TV---largely because all my friends were recommending it on facebook , and also because it won the national award in 2012 .
The setting---a village called Mangrul in a godforsaken part of Maharashtra state in India.....
There is scarcity of everything---no water , no electricity , no roads , no employment.....
In this village a simple guy called Keshav who owns and dearly loves his cow called Kardi gets a vision of god besides a particular tree ; a vision sanctified by his cow closely touching the tree.
Simple godfearing man that he is , and superstitious due to illiteracy , he goes about shouting in the village that he has seen god in the tree.....
At first , the villagers laugh it off ; they may be simple village folk , but this is the 21st century and even they are not going to be fooled by such visions.....
Of course , there are a few who genuinely believe Keshav , like the local politician's ( played by Nana Patekar ) wife ( played by Sonali Kulkarni ) , but they fail to realise the explosive potential of such visions.....
......That potential is realised by an intrepid journalist who asks the young men of the village to announce the building of a a temple to the god at the site of the tree in the village---all without permission of the village elders.
However , once the news of the vision and the building of the temple is published by the journalist in the newspaper , there is no going back .
Those who opposed it , like Nana Patekar also have to fall in line as people from other parts start flocking the site of the alleged ' vision ' .
Only one man , the wisest man in the village ( played by Dilip Prabhavalkar ) opposes the temple which will forever destroy the calm and peace of the pristine land .
But who has time for such odd and eccentric people like him ?? Everyone wants to put the village on the map.....
And everyone wants the moolah and the progress that will inevitably come with the building of the temple and flocking of worshipers to this remote corner of Maharashtra .
And so the wise man's plans for building of a hospital are discarded and a temple is built .
.....And like god's miracle , the village is transformed.....
Thousands of worshipers flock to the village . Stalls are opened selling various pooja items , food , cold drinks---all offering much needed employment for the village folk . Development comes , and the powerful people of the village find their hands full of cash . Grand plans are made to build an even bigger temple , and villages in the vicinity also start dreaming of having their own miracles and subsequent temples .
Only the wise old man thinks that all this is crass commercialisation of god and leaves the village---no one cares.....
But what about the simple godfearing man Keshav who had the vision ?? He too , like the wise old man is impractical and refuses to fall in line with the dictates of commercialisation---he , in fact is the only true believer and his faith in god is too pure to be polluted thus......
.....And for this very reason he is utterly discarded and forgotten , the benefits of his vision being totally taken up by those with smart and practical minds---the politicians , in fact.....
His cow , whom has been kept as an object of veneration in the temple too dies , and no one cares---she is simply replaced by a new and younger cow......
Dejected and heartbroken by people's commercialisation of god , seeing his family members and girlfriend too get caught in the wave and lure of money , he wanders away only to see another vision of god---indicating to him that he must steal the idol in the temple and free god from the prison of commercialisation that has imprisoned him.....
So he steals the idol and immerses it in a river which will carry it into the welcoming ocean.....
For the people of the village , the problem is not about the stolen idol .They dont care . All they care about is the money the idol used to bring along with other benefits . But the only problem now is---how will the show go on ??
No problem---they just bring another idol with due procession and carry on with business as usual.....
No one even remembers the old idol and the man who discovered god in the village---as the wise old man had said , they are merely specks in vast stage of time and are forgotten.....
Life goes on......
The hero of the film ( played by Girish Kulkarni ) has put a truely authentic show of acting and is the heart of the film , though others like Nana , Sonali and Dilip have done well themselves.....
Verdict---good , if you are an art film buff....
I'm in for this. Here's the list of Asian movies (not counting Soviet/Russian stuff) I have stored so far, but I'm open to any suggestion:
The story of the last chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939)
Princess Iron Fan (Wan Guchan & Wan Laiming, 1941)
Momotaro's divine sea warriors (Mitsuyo Seo, 1945)
Late spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
The Munekata sisters (Yasujiro Ozu, 1950)
To live (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
Gate of hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1953)
Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
The crucified woman (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
Floating clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1955)
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
Fountainhead (Masaki Kobayashi, 1956)
I will buy you (Masaki Kobayashi, 1956)
Street of shame (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1956)
Aparajito (Satyajit Ray, 1957)
The lower depths (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
The music room (Satyajit Ray, 1958)
The human condition I: No greater love (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959)
The human condition II: Road to eternity (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959)
The world of Apu (Satyajit Ray, 1959)
The bad sleep well (Akira Kurosawa, 1960)
When a woman ascends the stairs (Mikio Naruse, 1960)
The human condition III: A soldier's prayer (Masaki Kobayashi, 1961)
The pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1962)
The little prince and the eight-headed dragon (Yugo Serikawa, 1963)
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô, 1964)
The face of another (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966)
Violence at noon (Nagisa Oshima, 1966)
Black cat (Kaneto Shindô, 1968)
Kaitei sanman mile (Kimio Yabuki, 1970)
The tattoed swordsman (Teruo Ishii, 1970)
Inn of evil (Masaki Kobayashi, 1971)
Belladonna of sadness (Eiichi Yamamoto, 1973)
Insiang (Lino Brocka, 1976)
House (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977)
Dracula: Sovereign of the damned (Akinori Nagaoka & Minoru Okazaki, 1980)
Phoenix 2772: The cosmic zone of love (Suguru Sugiyama, 1980)
The ballad of Narayama (Shôhei Imamura, 1983)
Night on the Galactic Railroad (Gisaburo Sugii, 1985)
Pulgasari (Chong Gon Jo & Shin Shang-ok, 1985)
Vampire Hunter D (Carl Macek & Toyoo Ashida, 1985)
Robot Carnival (Various directors, 1987) - Does it count as a feature?
Black Rain (Shôhei Imamura, 1989)
A scene at the sea (Takeshi Kitano, 1991)
Comet in Moominland (Hiroshi Saito, 1992)
A wind called Amnesia (Kazuo Yamazaki, 1993)
Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano, 1993)
Black Jack (Osamu Dezaki, 1996)
A chef in love (Nana Djordjazde, 1996)
Happy together (Wong Kar-wai, 1997)
One evening after war (Rithy Panh, 1998)
Samurai X: Trust and betrayal (Kazuhiro Furuhashi, 1999)
The color of paradise (Majid Majidi, 1999)
The cup (Khyentse Norbu, 1999)
Three seasons (Tony Bui, 1999)
Yana's friends (Arik Kaplun, 1999)
Barking dogs never bite (Bong Joon-ho, 2000)
Joint Security Area (Park Chan-wook, 2000)
The circle (Jafar Panahi, 2000)
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (Yoshiaki Kawajiri, 2000)
Yi yi: A one and a two... (Edward Yang, 2000)
Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike, 2001)
My life as McDull (Toe Yuen, 2001)
Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002)
Dolls (Takeshi Kitano, 2002)
Oasis (Lee Chang-dong, 2002)
On the occasion of remembering the turning gate (Hong Sang-soo, 2002)
Parasite Dolls (Kazuto Nakazawa, Naoyuki Yoshinaga & Yasuhiro Geshi, 2002)
Oseam (Seong baek-yeob, 2003)
Shara (Naomi Kawase, 2003)
Spring, summer, autumn, winter... and spring (Kim Ki-duk, 2003)
Vodka Lemon (Hiner Saleem, 2003)
A moment to remember (John H. Lee, 2004)
Earth and ashes (Atiq Rahimi, 2004)
Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2004)
Nitaboh (Akio Nishizawa, 2004)
Nobody knows (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2004)
Sanctuary (Yuhang Ho, 2004)
Steamboy (Katsuhiro Ôtomo, 2004)
Stormy night (Gisaburo Sugii, 2005)
The book of the dead (Kihachiro Kawamoto, 2005)
The bow (Kim Ki-duk, 2005)
Bugmaster (Katsuhiro Ôtomo, 2006)
Caramel (Nadine Labaki, 2007)
Mongol: The rise of Gengis Khan (Sergey Bodrov, 2007)
My blueberry nights (Wong Kar-wai, 2007)
Summer days with Coo (Keiichi Hara, 2007)
Love exposure (Sion Sono, 2008)
The sky crawlers (Mamoru Oshii, 2008)
Mai Mai Miracle (Sunao Katabuchi, 2009)
No one knows about Persian cats (Bahman Ghobadi, 2009)
Akage no Anne: Green Gables e no michi (Isao Takahata, 2010) - I need subs for this one, though
The light thief (Aktan Abdykalykov, 2010)
The yellow sea (Na Hong-jin, 2010)
Uncle Boonme recalls his past lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
Veda - Atatürk (Zülfü Livaneli, 2010)
A separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
Buddha: The great departure (Kôzô Morishita, 2011)
Green days: Dinosaur and I (An Jae-hoon & Han Hye-Jin, 2011)
Himizu (Sion Sono, 2011)
Once upon a time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
Showa monogatari (Masahiro Murakami, 2011)
Tatsumi (Eric Khoo, 2011)
The raid: Redemption (Gareth Evans, 2011)
009 Re:Cyborg (Kenji Kamiyama, 2012)
Another (Takeshi Furusawa, 2012)
Arjun: The warrior prince (Arnab Chaudhuri, 2012)
Beyond the hill (Emin Alper, 2012)
Dangerous liaisons (Hur Jin-ho, 2012)
English Vinglish (Gauri Shinde, 2012)
Fuse: Memoirs of a hunter girl (Masayuki Miyaji, 2012)
Psychic school wars (Ryosuke Nakamura, 2012)
Rainbow butterflies (Kônosuke Uda, 2012)
The life of Budori Gusuko (Gisaburo Sugii, 2012)
The Tibetan dog (Masayuki Kojima, 2012)
Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2012)
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie part III: Rebellion (Akiyuki Shinbo & Yukihiro Mikamoto, 2013)
The congress (Ari Folman, 2013)
The grandmasters (Wong Kar-wai, 2013)
The story of the last chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939)
Princess Iron Fan (Wan Guchan & Wan Laiming, 1941)
Momotaro's divine sea warriors (Mitsuyo Seo, 1945)
Late spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
The Munekata sisters (Yasujiro Ozu, 1950)
To live (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
Gate of hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1953)
Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
The crucified woman (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
Floating clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1955)
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
Fountainhead (Masaki Kobayashi, 1956)
I will buy you (Masaki Kobayashi, 1956)
Street of shame (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1956)
Aparajito (Satyajit Ray, 1957)
The lower depths (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
The music room (Satyajit Ray, 1958)
The human condition I: No greater love (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959)
The human condition II: Road to eternity (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959)
The world of Apu (Satyajit Ray, 1959)
The bad sleep well (Akira Kurosawa, 1960)
When a woman ascends the stairs (Mikio Naruse, 1960)
The human condition III: A soldier's prayer (Masaki Kobayashi, 1961)
The pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1962)
The little prince and the eight-headed dragon (Yugo Serikawa, 1963)
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô, 1964)
The face of another (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966)
Violence at noon (Nagisa Oshima, 1966)
Black cat (Kaneto Shindô, 1968)
Kaitei sanman mile (Kimio Yabuki, 1970)
The tattoed swordsman (Teruo Ishii, 1970)
Inn of evil (Masaki Kobayashi, 1971)
Belladonna of sadness (Eiichi Yamamoto, 1973)
Insiang (Lino Brocka, 1976)
House (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977)
Dracula: Sovereign of the damned (Akinori Nagaoka & Minoru Okazaki, 1980)
Phoenix 2772: The cosmic zone of love (Suguru Sugiyama, 1980)
The ballad of Narayama (Shôhei Imamura, 1983)
Night on the Galactic Railroad (Gisaburo Sugii, 1985)
Pulgasari (Chong Gon Jo & Shin Shang-ok, 1985)
Vampire Hunter D (Carl Macek & Toyoo Ashida, 1985)
Robot Carnival (Various directors, 1987) - Does it count as a feature?
Black Rain (Shôhei Imamura, 1989)
A scene at the sea (Takeshi Kitano, 1991)
Comet in Moominland (Hiroshi Saito, 1992)
A wind called Amnesia (Kazuo Yamazaki, 1993)
Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano, 1993)
Black Jack (Osamu Dezaki, 1996)
A chef in love (Nana Djordjazde, 1996)
Happy together (Wong Kar-wai, 1997)
One evening after war (Rithy Panh, 1998)
Samurai X: Trust and betrayal (Kazuhiro Furuhashi, 1999)
The color of paradise (Majid Majidi, 1999)
The cup (Khyentse Norbu, 1999)
Three seasons (Tony Bui, 1999)
Yana's friends (Arik Kaplun, 1999)
Barking dogs never bite (Bong Joon-ho, 2000)
Joint Security Area (Park Chan-wook, 2000)
The circle (Jafar Panahi, 2000)
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (Yoshiaki Kawajiri, 2000)
Yi yi: A one and a two... (Edward Yang, 2000)
Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike, 2001)
My life as McDull (Toe Yuen, 2001)
Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002)
Dolls (Takeshi Kitano, 2002)
Oasis (Lee Chang-dong, 2002)
On the occasion of remembering the turning gate (Hong Sang-soo, 2002)
Parasite Dolls (Kazuto Nakazawa, Naoyuki Yoshinaga & Yasuhiro Geshi, 2002)
Oseam (Seong baek-yeob, 2003)
Shara (Naomi Kawase, 2003)
Spring, summer, autumn, winter... and spring (Kim Ki-duk, 2003)
Vodka Lemon (Hiner Saleem, 2003)
A moment to remember (John H. Lee, 2004)
Earth and ashes (Atiq Rahimi, 2004)
Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2004)
Nitaboh (Akio Nishizawa, 2004)
Nobody knows (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2004)
Sanctuary (Yuhang Ho, 2004)
Steamboy (Katsuhiro Ôtomo, 2004)
Stormy night (Gisaburo Sugii, 2005)
The book of the dead (Kihachiro Kawamoto, 2005)
The bow (Kim Ki-duk, 2005)
Bugmaster (Katsuhiro Ôtomo, 2006)
Caramel (Nadine Labaki, 2007)
Mongol: The rise of Gengis Khan (Sergey Bodrov, 2007)
My blueberry nights (Wong Kar-wai, 2007)
Summer days with Coo (Keiichi Hara, 2007)
Love exposure (Sion Sono, 2008)
The sky crawlers (Mamoru Oshii, 2008)
Mai Mai Miracle (Sunao Katabuchi, 2009)
No one knows about Persian cats (Bahman Ghobadi, 2009)
Akage no Anne: Green Gables e no michi (Isao Takahata, 2010) - I need subs for this one, though
The light thief (Aktan Abdykalykov, 2010)
The yellow sea (Na Hong-jin, 2010)
Uncle Boonme recalls his past lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
Veda - Atatürk (Zülfü Livaneli, 2010)
A separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
Buddha: The great departure (Kôzô Morishita, 2011)
Green days: Dinosaur and I (An Jae-hoon & Han Hye-Jin, 2011)
Himizu (Sion Sono, 2011)
Once upon a time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
Showa monogatari (Masahiro Murakami, 2011)
Tatsumi (Eric Khoo, 2011)
The raid: Redemption (Gareth Evans, 2011)
009 Re:Cyborg (Kenji Kamiyama, 2012)
Another (Takeshi Furusawa, 2012)
Arjun: The warrior prince (Arnab Chaudhuri, 2012)
Beyond the hill (Emin Alper, 2012)
Dangerous liaisons (Hur Jin-ho, 2012)
English Vinglish (Gauri Shinde, 2012)
Fuse: Memoirs of a hunter girl (Masayuki Miyaji, 2012)
Psychic school wars (Ryosuke Nakamura, 2012)
Rainbow butterflies (Kônosuke Uda, 2012)
The life of Budori Gusuko (Gisaburo Sugii, 2012)
The Tibetan dog (Masayuki Kojima, 2012)
Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2012)
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie part III: Rebellion (Akiyuki Shinbo & Yukihiro Mikamoto, 2013)
The congress (Ari Folman, 2013)
The grandmasters (Wong Kar-wai, 2013)
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Abbas Kiarostami, Tsai Ming-Liang and Edward Yang! Maybe also maybe some more Satyajit Ray like Charulata and Mahanagar!
Lav Diaz is also recommendable!
Lav Diaz is also recommendable!
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Thanks guys 
, I'll look for some. Most of my list is Japanese...
Lav Diaz is a tough one, eh? I don't plan to get into any of his movies soon, they require a huge amount of time. But I'll try eventually some of them (Melancholia looks interesting), though not during this challenge.
, I'll look for some. Most of my list is Japanese...Lav Diaz is a tough one, eh? I don't plan to get into any of his movies soon, they require a huge amount of time. But I'll try eventually some of them (Melancholia looks interesting), though not during this challenge.
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His newest film is only 4 hours and in colour 
I'll check it, thanks. He has made a 31 minute film as well!
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Add me to this.
I just watched Gran Torino and I learned that when you respect Asians, gifts are brought to you.
I just watched Gran Torino and I learned that when you respect Asians, gifts are brought to you.
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I had kind of made a decision not to watch any Asian movies until this started so I would build up a decent list of those I wanted to watch ... but I have no self control ...
Therefore, here are a few more recommendations
Millennium Actress (2001) & Tokyo Godfathers (2003) - Satoshi Kon
Two really enjoyable animated films - particularly Tokyo Godfathers which I loved. Perfect Blue by Kon is also good
Nobody Knows (2004) - Hirokazu Koreeda
The fourth film I've seen by Koreeda. I think it's his weakest but I still rate it -. People seriously need to see this guy's films.
Therefore, here are a few more recommendations
Millennium Actress (2001) & Tokyo Godfathers (2003) - Satoshi Kon
Two really enjoyable animated films - particularly Tokyo Godfathers which I loved. Perfect Blue by Kon is also good
Nobody Knows (2004) - Hirokazu Koreeda
The fourth film I've seen by Koreeda. I think it's his weakest but I still rate it -. People seriously need to see this guy's films.
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I had kind of made a decision not to watch any Asian movies until this started so I would build up a decent list of those I wanted to watch ... but I have no self control ...
Therefore, here are a few more recommendations
Millennium Actress (2001) & Tokyo Godfathers (2003) - Satoshi Kon
Two really enjoyable animated films - particularly Tokyo Godfathers which I loved. Perfect Blue by Kon is also good
Nobody Knows (2004) - Hirokazu Koreeda
The fourth film I've seen by Koreeda. I think it's his weakest but I still rate it -. People seriously need to see this guy's films.
Therefore, here are a few more recommendations
Millennium Actress (2001) & Tokyo Godfathers (2003) - Satoshi Kon
Two really enjoyable animated films - particularly Tokyo Godfathers which I loved. Perfect Blue by Kon is also good
Nobody Knows (2004) - Hirokazu Koreeda
The fourth film I've seen by Koreeda. I think it's his weakest but I still rate it -. People seriously need to see this guy's films.
Also, Koreeda is excellent, everything, always.
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I stumbled upon a article on central asian cinema at film comment. If anyone is interested here is the link:
http://filmcomment.com/article/lone-...l-asian-cinema
Darezhan Omirbayev looks like an interesting filmmaker and im contemplating checking him out for this challenge. Also the Kazakh New Wave seems like something i would enjoy!
I have seen The Wind Rises (2013) by Hayao Miyazaki in the cinema and while it was a pleasant watch i must admit that i felt that it was a bit overlong, but you still have some of magnificient / magical sequences that only Miyazaki can make. While its not on par with his best movies its certainly worth a watch especially if you are fan of some of his other works.
http://filmcomment.com/article/lone-...l-asian-cinema
Darezhan Omirbayev looks like an interesting filmmaker and im contemplating checking him out for this challenge. Also the Kazakh New Wave seems like something i would enjoy!
I have seen The Wind Rises (2013) by Hayao Miyazaki in the cinema and while it was a pleasant watch i must admit that i felt that it was a bit overlong, but you still have some of magnificient / magical sequences that only Miyazaki can make. While its not on par with his best movies its certainly worth a watch especially if you are fan of some of his other works.
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3 Iron. (2004)
It wasn't what I expected at all. I was expecting a quirky tale about love and lust for some reason. But this was more a whimsical metaphorical journey into life, love, the senses, spirituality and rising above adversity. It's not a movie that you can pick apart in terms of realism, because if you did that it would be full of holes. So as a result you really have to open your mind and enter the spiritulalism of it all. There is hardly any dialogue, which actually made it more compelling I thought.
The scene at the end when Sun hwa(?) reaches out her hand is beautiful.
Overall I'd give it a solid 7/10
It wasn't what I expected at all. I was expecting a quirky tale about love and lust for some reason. But this was more a whimsical metaphorical journey into life, love, the senses, spirituality and rising above adversity. It's not a movie that you can pick apart in terms of realism, because if you did that it would be full of holes. So as a result you really have to open your mind and enter the spiritulalism of it all. There is hardly any dialogue, which actually made it more compelling I thought.
The scene at the end when Sun hwa(?) reaches out her hand is beautiful.
Overall I'd give it a solid 7/10
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So it's May 1 in my part of the world. Can I start yet???
I've got movies by the following directors all lined up
Hirozaku Koreeda (Japan)
Yasujiro Ozu (Japan)
Hou Hsiao Hsien (Taiwan)
Edward Yang (Taiwan)
Abbas Kiarostami (Iran)
Satyajit Ray (India)
Kim Ki Duk (South Korea)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand)
Masaki Kobayashi (Japan)
Zhang Yimou (China)
Takeshi Kitano (Japan)
Shunji Iwai (Japan)
Tsai Ming Liang (Taiwan)
Hiroshi Teshigahara (Japan)
Akira Kurosawa (Japan)
Takashi Miike (Japan)
Satoshi Kon (Japan)
Pen-ek Ratanaruang (Thailand)
Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Iran)
Kim Ji Woon (South Korea)
Bong Joon Ho (South Korea)
... and more.
I've got movies by the following directors all lined up
Hirozaku Koreeda (Japan)
Yasujiro Ozu (Japan)
Hou Hsiao Hsien (Taiwan)
Edward Yang (Taiwan)
Abbas Kiarostami (Iran)
Satyajit Ray (India)
Kim Ki Duk (South Korea)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand)
Masaki Kobayashi (Japan)
Zhang Yimou (China)
Takeshi Kitano (Japan)
Shunji Iwai (Japan)
Tsai Ming Liang (Taiwan)
Hiroshi Teshigahara (Japan)
Akira Kurosawa (Japan)
Takashi Miike (Japan)
Satoshi Kon (Japan)
Pen-ek Ratanaruang (Thailand)
Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Iran)
Kim Ji Woon (South Korea)
Bong Joon Ho (South Korea)
... and more.
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Also, I will go ahead and include Russian/Soviet films. You can choose to focus on whichever area of Asia you want, so I don't think this would really change anything.
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Dumplings - Fruit Chan This is expanded from a short and there just wasn't any reason to do so. At only an hour and thirty minutes it feels long and so much of it is filler. (No pun intended) Having said that, it's twisted, stylish and the two leads are great. It is probably an excellent short but there isn't enough of substance to justify it's length. It becomes repetitious and you have gotten the point long before the movie is over.
Grossest dumplings ever.
C+
My Asian movie count : 1
Grossest dumplings ever.
C+My Asian movie count : 1
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Dumplings - Fruit Chan This is expanded from a short and there just wasn't any reason to do so. At only an hour and thirty minutes it feels long and so much of it is filler. (No pun intended) Having said that, it's twisted, stylish and the two leads are great. It is probably an excellent short but there isn't enough of substance to justify it's length. It becomes repetitious and you have gotten the point long before the movie is over.
Grossest dumplings ever. C+
My Asian movie count : 1
Grossest dumplings ever.
C+My Asian movie count : 1
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