"Oldboy"
 

enough said, more later...

Fearless rocks, but apparently there is another version with 40 more minutes in the canon coming.
Sympathy For Lady Vengeance was ok; different from Oldboy.
Initial D is a guilty pleasure.
Seven Swords is a good Tsui Hark flick.

Daisy looks pretty good, although I've gotta say she doesn't seem that hard to kill. :)

I loved Sympathy for Lady Vengeance if you haven't seen that yet.

the opening scene was great the rest of the film was just meh... I didn't care for his film 'Election' either.

An almost perfect post.

;)

A number of us (myself included) have greatly enjoyed the new Takeshi Miike "The Great Yokai War". As long as you don't mind the silly/crazy side of Asian cinema (but not a gross-out movie, if you're worried about that).

Zebraman is even better.

I bought Fearless on DVD, and had to stop before the end. Sure, the engrish subtitles didn't help, but damn that movie sucked.

While a bit older (1997 to be exact),
I would highly recommend Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure (Kyua).

I really enjoyed Hong Sang-soo's <b>Tale of Cinema</b>.

Slightly older films I've liked were <b>Last Life in the Universe</b> (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2003), <b>3-Iron</b> (Kim Ki-duk, 2004), <b>The World</b> (Zhang Ke Jia), and <b>Tropical Malady</b> (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004).

Oh, and I haven't seen Tsai's <b>The Wayward Cloud</b> yest, so nobody give me crap for not including it. :)

oh the temptation... ;)

Blood Rain (Hyeol-ui nu)
The Neighbor No. 13
Three Times
Die Bad (Jukgeona hokeun nabbeugeona)
A World Without Thieves (Tian xia wu zei)
Hana & Alice
Kekexili: Mountain Patrol
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Café Lumière

is puprle butterfly the one with zhang ziyi? i've hear dmixed reviews. but i heard dolls is very good.

Kitano's Dolls? It's an acquired taste.

Yeah, Purple Butterfly is the Ziyi Zhang film. Definitely not for everybody, but I still recommend it based on the 50/50 of the person loving it. And Dolls is unlike anything Kitano has done. It definitely doesn't have a lot in common with Zatoichi, Fireworks, or Brother. It has a very slow, very deliberate pace with a lot of symbolism and very little dialogue. "Acquired taste" is definitely the appropriate phrase.

-JP

I'm not as up to date on Asian Cinema as everyone else here but I really enjoyed "2046"

There's so much emotional depth to it.

As far as relatively recent Korean films go I'd recommend:

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Git (aka Feathers in the Wind)
Tale of Cinema
3-Iron
The President's Last Bang
A Bittersweet Life
Crying Fist
Marathon
Welcome to Dongmakol

Not as good but worth a watch: Blood Rain, Antarctic Journal, Princess Aurora, The Bow, The Duelists (some love it, some hate it)

HK/China: 2046 and Kekexili Mountain Patrol
Watchable: The Myth, Election, Seven Swords, The Promise, SPL

Japan: Survive Style 5, Mind Game, Zebraman, A Taste of Tea
Watchable: Kamikaze Girl
(haven't watched Yokai War or Cutie Honey yet)

For the record, I thought that Purple Butterfly was average at best.

Oh yeah, 3-Iron was my favorite movie of '05, how did I forget that.. completely forgot it was foreign.

i love zhang ziyi and the premise really interested me so i'll give it a shot. thanks.

has anyone seen "shadowless sword?" the trailer looked awesome but i've heard nothing about it, couldn't even find it on ebay or imdb for that matter.

http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/20...rd/trailer.php

edit: found it as http://imdb.com/title/tt0488763/

Yeah, just note that I may be a bit biased because I love gimmicks and I want to marry Zhang Ziyi...

-JP

i'm in that same boat, but duly noted.

Bastard. :grunt:

Hey, I've been busy - what can I say? :lol:

I've been a hot streak with the past half a dozen foreign flicks I've checked out (most of these already mentioned):

- Bittersweet Life
- Tom Yum Goong
- Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
- Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
- Friend (this is a great korean mob drama).

- Woo-Suk Kang's Silmido
- A Tale of Two Sisters (rumoured Hollywood version in the works)