Giggles

But it's too short and - you're right, it's weak. Besides it would be reasonable to watch 2LDK together with Aragami which is btw much better.
And maybe Acacia will do a match for Tale of Two Sisters. They have pretty much in common concerning mood and atmosphere.

visitor Q

No, I meant "weak" with respect to the two choices that I listed to go with Battle Royale.

As far as the film goes, I loved it. I mean come on, outrageous and absurdly fun life or death battle between two beautiful Japanese women confined to one apartment! Silly - yeah, but I thought it has its merits. The build up was great. The acting was passable and it was good fun.

And yes Aragami (which I have not seen) would go with 2LDK only because it was part of the bet. No clue if it's of a similar theme or not.

Giles

actually I'm one of the few who liked both, and they are both very similiar Evil Aliens though has a lot more gore ... so bear that in mind, if you really didn't dig Undead, you might have similiar reaction to Evil Aliens...

oh that double German disc is soooo mine...

Trigger

I haven't seen Aragami I don't think (don't recognize the covers shown on the DVDs on HKflix anyway)... I started 2LDK, but got busy and didn't finish. Today though. I like it so far.

I thought about Acacia, but wondered if it was good enough/scary enough. What about that one where the girls put plastic bags over their heads and set themselves on fire? Was that one scary enough? Into the Mirror as someone else suggested was decent and scary and then fell apart near the end as it turned into an episode of Columbo. Inner Senses also fell apart. Victim? Was that good? I still have to watch a few horror films I recently got including Shutter.

Trigger

When Inside - that french film - comes out, it'll go well with either haute Tension or 2LDK.

Trigger

Just finished 2LDK - I'll agree that it's too short... they definitely should've fucked each other up much more than that. I still liked it though.

What about Feed or Hair Extensions? Worth obtaining?

Giggles

Yeah 2LDK has its merits, it's fun, but in my mind it's more a director's exercise, a knicknack rather than a full-weight film. And the theme was similar. As I remember the rules of the bet were: two characters, one room, one confrontation.

Acacia was good enough, but maybe not very scary. Atmospheric though. Agree about Into the Mirror and Inner Senses. Can't just recall girls with plastic bags and haven't yet seen Feed and Hair Extensions.
Two more just came to my mind as a match for Tale of Two Sisters. First is Memento Mori and second is a wild one - Dead Man's Shoes. Absolutely different than 'Sisters' in most of the aspects, but definately shares something with them.

Richard Malloy

Potential match for "A Tale of Two Sisters"... Miike's "Box". Yes, it's artful, even cerebral (for a Miike film), but it's also got a certain eloquent quietude that's somewhat akin to "Tale". And, of course, it is also a tale of two sisters. And it's only 40 minutes long.

And for my money, the best "BR" matchup would be "Series 7: the Contenders". But it's a domestic film, which doesn't fit the theme of your movie nights. Maybe "Suicide Club"?

visitor Q

Caught me on that one. For some reason I was under the impression Series 7 was British. So much for the verification process.

Trigger

I know I mentioned this, but I should clarify again... in spite of what the title of this thread says, I'm including some domestic releases - like Buffalo '66 and Evil Dead and such. Independent films I guess. If I explained it in the thread title though, it would've been quite long.

I fucking hated Memento Mori to the point I couldn't finish it. I made it through about an hour and a quarter I guess before I yanked it out of my DVD player and chucked it across the room. I can't remember why though...

Box is a good idea, but it is too short - perhaps just playing all 3 of those "Three" movies. Dead Man's Shoes looks good...

Suicide Circle would definitely be the choice if it wasn't for the damn musical number... wtf? Screwed it up to the point that I'd probably match that with BR2 instead.

toddly6666

Please chuck Battle Royale 2 in the garbage...there really is no need. It's such a bad movie, that it's just bad, not funny..

Trigger

Finished Shutter - pretty good.

Anyone know about The Red Shoes? I want to pick up the DVD 18 version, but without subtitles - that blows. Any idea if a subbed version of the DVD only release is due ever?

I remembered the girls with the burning bags on their heads movie - it was Bunshinsaba. Pretty tight movie.

What about The Uninvited? ... or Inugami? ... or Wishing Stairs? Speaking of wishing - I wish Re-Cycle was a better movie... that would be a good choice.

Rypro 525

Eh, maybe 'A Bittersweet Life' with Battle Royale?

Giggles

I just adored The Ininvited. Awesome film. May seem a bit boring, but really dark and disturbing. I had a hard time sitting through Inugami. I finished it just because I had to - I always watch to the end whatever film it is... And Wishing Stairs was pretty good. Reminds Memento Mori, but more intense and more horror.
Speaking of Memento Mori - you know the Korean 6-disc Ultimate Edition has a rough cut running 186 m. That would be a real test for you

haleyxvader

Im not sure if you want to keep films from the same country together but I think Wild Zero would go well with Evil (To Kako) - Greece

http://www.amazon.com/Evil-Themis-Ka...0585223&sr=1-1

....or even Versus

As far as BR goes I think 2LDK is a good choice but Suicide Club would be better. Save Ichi and pair it with something else.

Trigger

I had Bittersweet Life paired up with Daisy, but wasn't happy about that and was considering something else... BR might be good come to think of it. Sunflower would've been good too, but I don't know that I'm including it in my roundup.

I decided earlier up to pair Ichi with Story of Ricky since that'll be a bloody disgusting night... I'll have to re-write my description of the evening now though.

I'm going to re-watch Uninvited to see if it's good enough... I'm also very open to pairing Tale of Two Sisters up with something non-horror.

If I had to sit through 180+ minutes of Momento Mori, I'd have to stab someone.

I've got Wild Zero now with Atomik Circus (provided I like it - if not, then Versus).

Here's the pairings I have so far and a rough list of films I'm using:

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance & Oldboy
Dellamorte Dellamore & Braindead
Be With You & ...ing (or some other tearjerker)
My Sassy Girl & Il Mare (looking for something better than Il Mare
Time and Tide & Wasabi
Delicatessen & Amelie (Director's Spotlight)
King of Comedy & Shaolin Soccer or God of Cookery
Wild Zero & Atomik Circus
Story of Ricky and Ichi the Killer
Haute Tension & Autopsy (or something better)
Night Watch & Day Watch (or Moon Child or some other vampire film)
Evil Dead 2 & Army of Darkness

That's about half the list... as I've said, I have at most 52 of these to prepare for this year and I've tried to sort it out by language (10 per with 2 extra) so it's not too heavy on one market... this list obviously isn't complete (doing this from memory) and these also aren't set in stone. I know I want more kung-fu and comedy and romance and drama, so I have to adjust the list.

English:
Army of Darkness
Evil Dead 2
Braindead
Dellamorte Dellamore
Buffalo '66
Salton Sea
Dog Soldiers
Straight To Hell
Below
Heavenly Creatures
Equlibrium
Bubba Ho Tep

Japanese:
Battle Royale
Wild Zero
Ichi the Killer
Be With You
Electric Dragon 80,000 Volt
Zatoichi
Returner
Audition
Uzumaki
Versus

Korean:
Oldboy
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Tale of Two Sisters
3 Iron
Bittersweet Life
The Host
...ing
Steal it if You Can
Arahan
Daisy
Shiri
Save the Green Planet
Volcano High

Cantonese/Mandarin:
Story of Ricky
Time and Tide
God of Cookery or Shaolin Soccer
King of Comedy
Infernal Affairs
SPL
2049
Running Out Of Time
Purple Storm
Fist of Legend

French/Other:
Atomik Circus
Wasabi
Delicatessen
Amelie
Haute Tension
Autopsy
Nightwatch
Daywatch
Avalon
(a thai film to be named later)

flixtime

While you might not have it yet, the Thai film "Citizen Dog" might be worth considering. I know some viewed it as just an "Amelie" knock-off, but I thought it was terrific!

Sidenote: no Bollywood/Indian cinema under consideration, at least for variety if nothing else...I'm a poor salesman.

toddly6666

Citizen Dog was well-filmed garbage. The whole movie was influenced by the first ten minutes of Amelie, only that those ten minutes of Amelie are 100 times better than the whole of Citizen Dog...

You wanna see the best Japanese movie with buddies? Buy the Japanese anamorphic version of TAMPOPO. You can even pair it with God Of Cookery. Tampopo is like a food porno. It's a timeless and totally not dated film. There is no way that you can watch this film and not get hungry. And it's got a young Ken Watanabe in it, and it has one of the best Japanese actors in it, Tsutomu Yamazaki, a Japanese version of Clint Eastwood...Please buy the DVD, the video/audio/english subtitles quality is excellent. Here's a link - http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept...id-1004050138/, worth every bit of money...

slop101

Not that you asked, but I've never been a fan of double-features where the movies are so similar, like the ones you've picked. That's why Grindhouse was so great - the two movies were so different, but still fit together pretty well. I guess that's harder to do.

josepotato

To go with My Sassy Girl how about Spring Bears Love. I saw The Red Shoes, didn't care for it, just a pretty basic horror flick, and if you didn't like Momento Mori I wouldn't suggest Wishing Stairs.

A few K-Horror I like:
Black House (2007)
The Doll Master (2004) cheesy but fun.
To Sir, with Love (2006) kinda Horror/Fantasy/Romantic
Return (2007) Horror/Thriller - The only Film that has ever made me physically ill watching it, but a favorite

Trigger

I have yet to see a bollywood movie that I like at all. I am gonna have to check out Citizen Dog though - it seems to have gotten more great reviews than bad ones.

As for the picks being too similar - I just slapped together the obvious ones, I was trying to have theme nights though, so they should only be linked by theme. I'm not really trying to show the same movies done different ways. I agree that wouldn't be as good - I thought I was on the right track... :/

Jose - I need to look into your suggestions - only one I've seen is Doll Master - I liked it, but wasn't sure if it was good enough. I hear the theatrical version of Red Shoes was shit compared to the 18+ version you can only find on the Korean DVD without subtitles... it changes the film dramatically and makes it more intelligent and it makes more sense and is scarier. I'll have to wait for a release of that with subs. *crosses fingers*

Trigger

Wait a minute - I'm confusing Memento Mori with another film I think... there was some boring movie about a guy and a little girl in a car and they go under water or some shit and it's excruciatingly boring.

Giggles

Guy and a girl in the car under water don't ring a bell... Yet...
And having read your list, I thought it'd be nice to include some HK cop/triads movie to pair it with Infernal Affairs or some other, for instance Dog Bite Dog or some Johhny To film - Mission or Exiled

Trigger

Yeah - I was thinking about what to pair with Infernal Affairs... I thought maybe SPL because it has more action, but then again perhaps it has too much? I have yet to see Exiled - apparently it's good. I considered Time and Tide because it would be cops and bad guys as buddies. Wasabi doesn't really belong with Time and Tide anyway except both are stylish and fun. I'm also trying to watch out for length - I don't want to stick two really long movies together so people are up past their bedtimes.

The movie I was thinking about - I remember a guy driving a car and a little girl is in the back seat laying down and she's wet or something. There's a lot of rain. There's a scene with him and her under water I think. I wish I could remember. I hated that film. I know it's korean and it was probably sometime between 2000 and 2004.

toddly6666

Is there an english-subtitled version of Resurrection of a Little Match Girl? I watched it without subtitles and it's not that bad....