I've been wanting to watch some Asian films, history based ones mostly. But hey if there are others you'd recommend of different genres I don't mind! I need something to do while waiting till the start of my next quarter.
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Oooh. Me Rikey.
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I have heard rumblings about Oldboy and Chinese Ghost Story; which are both on my must buy list.
I would also suggest Hard-Boiled. John Woo's best movie imho.
And for a spin-off...you might also try Fistful of Dollars by Sergio Leone. Which would be a Spaghetti Western based off of Yojimbo.
Speaking more of the great influence Kurosawa had on film.Last edited by vizi; December 14, 2009 at 08:45 PM.
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Oh, I'm well acquainted with Blondie. hehe.
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Yamato, kind of PRO Japanese as much as an American war film is Pro American, kind of a nice spin on things though.
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Some suggestions:
Non-historical:
Oldboy
Infernal Affair (The departed is an american remake of this film. Not that it needed a remake.)
Also check out John Woo, especially hard-boiled as vizi suggested. Killer and a better tomorrow are also good, IIRC.
Akira kurasawa. Those of his films I have seen were great. I suspect the rest are as well.
Historical:
Tae Guk Gi (brotherhood of war), a movie about two brothers in the korean war.
Can't think of any more at the moment. I know I have seen more asian films, but I don't remember if they were good or not.Member of S.I.N. -
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Some of the Historical Bollywood ones are epic, if you don't mind the fact that they break into their typical vibrato indian file songs every 5 minutes.
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The Good, The Bad, The Weird is awesome.
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You know, I find that sort of ironic, how Sergio Leone, with A Fistful of Dollars, basically copied much from a Japanese film, Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, and now there's a Japanese reinterpretation of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Leone's original work. There was also a Japanese remake of Django a couple years back, but I much prefer the original Sergio Corbucci work.
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As for Japanese historical cinema, Akira Kurosawa is definitely a good place to start. His films are, if not entirely based on historical events, set in historical periods as a backdrop for the stories. Ran, though mainly based off of William Shakespeare's King Lear, is a great film as well.
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花木兰 赤壁 坂の上の雲
I do not know the English name of these videos above, two Chinese new films and one Japanese new TV drama about history. -
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodhaa_Akbar
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