Hey Yea Forums I'm In The Mood for Asian kino!
What can you recommend?
Watched pic related and loved it.
Watched whole cinematography of Wong Kar-Wai which I also enjoyed, especially Chungking Express and Fallen Angels.
Watched Rashomon and Drunken Angel by Kurosawa, found it a little slow but it is quite possible that I am not developed enough for that yet.
Secret Sunshine and Rebels of the Neon God were both fantastic.
What else is on the menu?
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Satoshi kon's movies.
Watched Perfect Blue by him, shit was tight. At some point you just forget it's animated.
also Mother is by the same director of memories of murder, not as good but it's still entertaining
Johnnie To films for some triad kino
Saved! Thanks famalama ding dong!
From that list I'd highly recommend Castaway on the Moon and The Chaser
New World and nameless gangster are kino, highly recommend both of them.
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I'm a big fan of Mio Kimishima's body of work
Watched Battle of Memories (Chinese movie) yesterday and it was pretty nice. Thought it was 100% generic at first but at the end, I thought it was quite a nice ride
That'll keep me busy. Good thing I lost my job a few days ago.
Sonatine
the wandering earth was popcorn kino but if you're a jap you probably will be offended
Can't recommend Kitano enough. Sonatine, Hana-bi, Boiling Point, Kikujiro, Violent Cop, Brother
Cure (1997)
Harakiri
High and Low
Sounds like you're still developing cinema literacy for the very formalist ~50s era b&w or the subject matter doesn't appeal to you so I'd stay away at the moment from titans like Ozu. Don't give up on Kurosawa, try High & Low or Ran.
Japanese new-wave will help bridge the gap between old and modern, lot's of great stuff there. I'd highly recommend some Teshigahara films like Woman in the Dunes and The Face of Another. Teryama's films are also great.
For general awesome Japanese films of any period:
Wolf and Cub, Lady Snowblood, Sword of Doom, Tokyo Drifter, Tetsuo the Iron Man, Hausu, Blind Beast.
I'm almost there. After I read the analysis to Rashomon for instance it just illuminated to me a new perspective on film. But you're right. Thanks for the recommendations.
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Hey you're making an effort you'll get there. That's great you actually read some analysis, it can really help develop your appreciation starting out. Also props for checking out Tsai Ming-Liang, Neon Rebels is based.
Everything by Park Chan-wook
Shit my dude. Checked out what all the directors of the movies you named did also. It's like a fuckin' gold mine. I think I'm covered in japanese movies alone for the next few years.
Well if the film is critically acclaimed and I felt it is not I knew I misunderstood something. Tarkovsky was the same story. Didn't understand shit until I read analysis.
Rebel of the Neon God reminded me of Wong Kar-Wai a lot. I really dig the style of those films. Especially Wong's films seem to be based on an emotion than on a real plot. Which was completely bewildering to me the first time I watched In The Mood for Love.
Asian cinematography is just awesome. Even a movie with the shittiest plot often have amazing visuals.
Yeah I picked up on that from your OP so I tried to pick some older films that appeal to those sensibilities. I'm a streamer on a site where we play films and have a built in chat with Yea Forums users, right now it's auto stream but every night ~9 hours from now is when we're active. My name's kayo there, we stream just about everything - new and old, popular and arthouse, US and foreign. Come by if you like and feel free to ask for a request.
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Shoplifters
>only 1 oscar nomination and no wins
No wonder people shit on The Academy, they don't know a good film if it hit them in the face.
>if you're a jap you probably will be offended
Why? I saw it last week and I didn't catch any anti-jap stuff. It wasn't even pro China for that matter, just a Chinese movie with Chinese people playing a central role.
interesting how she got hot, compared to her in love exposure.
This was kino. GOAT final scene.
I've put off watching Love Exposure for so long. I just have a hard time signing up to watch a 4-hour movie, especially from Sion Sono. I don't know if I'd enjoy that much of his weirdness in one sitting.
farewell my concubine
shanghai triad
goodbye dragon inn
ichi the killer
city on fire
The Wailling
Cool! Definitely check this one out, thanks senpai!
Dont recommend that shit movie...
Does anyone remember this asian kino (probably korean) where this detective is trying to remake past events at one part of the movie, there was this fat guy ar a restaurant and so the detective goes to the same restaurant to relieve that memory, he orders all the food the fat guy did and eats and eats and eats to the point where he is vomiting all the food but even then he still keeps eating to remake the moment?
Gotta second this. Just watched that a few days ago (because I'll watch anything with Bae Doona) and it was pretty meh. Really, if you've seen one "true story" about some shlub who rose up to become an insanely rich drug boss who ends badly (Blow, American Made), this movie offers nothing new, aside from its location.
This.Classic espionage Kino
Made in Hong Kong
Cyclo
watch all by Takeshi Kitano
also recent movie SHOPLIFTERS
LOVE EXPOSURE
Base Beat Takeshi.
It didn't feel like a slog at any time for me, and I'm pretty bad at watching movies without pausing.
Blues Harp
The Bird People in China (one of the most majestic and melancholic endings of all time)
that was one of my top fav scenes of themovie.
i even cried like a stupid cunt
the OUTRAGE trilogy is thought to be too memeish, but its absolute entertainment.
pacing is amazing and its like 3 movies but feels like half an hour runtime total.
>TFW you realize that memories of murder was based on real events
Yeah. That hug looked so genuine. It took what could have been a cliche and turned it into gold.
When she's questioned at the end of the movie, it retroactively made that scene even more painful.
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Everybody probably already knows this but the final shot, the look is supposed to be for the real killer. It's genius on so many layers it's fucking incredible. Psychopaths like this always return to the location of the crime, so it would be only natural for him to watch the movie. On the other hand he is looking at all of us as the killer, as the little girl said, is an ordinary looking guy, not some kind of caricature and could be lurking in the masses without you even seeing it. I get goosebumps every time I watch it.
true. i felt the same way.
IRL who was the murdered then??
am i blind or this list needs the following additions:
Spring Summer Autumn Winter and Spring
Burning
might be missing some more
Check out A Land Imagined. It might be showing in an art cinema near you soon. Feels a lot like WKW but totally new.
Totally not shilling my home country's latest kino btw.
For Japanese cinema check out anything by Sion Sono (Yea Forums loves him because he's Yea Forums-lite) or Hirokazu Koreeda. The latter's latest film Shoplifters is pretty solid and all his movies are comfy as hell.
>the look is supposed to be for the real killer.
tfw the killer was the movie spectator all along
Japan has best constructed shots.
China the most approachable and universal emotional themes.
Korea is a perfect mix of both.
Yes? No? Fight me?
You won't regret it. Those four hours go by quick, if only Sono didn't chicken out of releasing the original six hour cut
It's an old chart. Burning was released last year
Spring Summer is there, under Drama. The first movie on the list. At first glance I thought those were two different ones.
>China
if you mean Taiwan and HK , then yes.
the only honorable mention i have for China as in the PRC, i'd say Red Cliff
That movie needed to be like 30 minutes shorter. And tonally its all over the place. But t was ok.
So what is the deal? Taiwan and HK are more liberal. Because I was surprised by some of the Chinese movies I watched that they went past censoring. I really know nothing about the social climate there.
not what i meant.
the china movie industry is nonexistant due to the fact that communism completely obliterated any sort of artistic input.
taiwan and HK werent affected so they ended up being major asian cradles of art. also much earlier than korea, that was a late bloomer as well.
Has anyone seen An Elephant Sitting Still (2018) ?
Looks like Chinese kino
Why weren't they affected? I mean it's a part of china isn't it?
Only by technicality. In all practical ways, Taiwan and Hong Kong are separate countries with their own laws and government. China is legally supposed to take over Hong Kong in a couple decades though, and they'll probably try taking over Taiwan eventually too.
That doesn't sound good.
Kim-Ki Duk will fuck you for life with Moëbius, The Isle and Bad Guy. Beautifully made and way more fucked up than Human Centipedes etc.
the wailing
much appreciated senpai
if you like MoaM watch Black Coal Thin Ice
watched this many years ago, such a strange film that keeps switching between genres
this was just sap
saw it...boring ending