East-Asian Cinema

Post good East-Asian movies. At least it's not another GoT/superhero/bane thread.

I'll start dumping

>btw east asia is china, japan and korea
>inb4 taiwan and hongkong are not china

Pic related by Wong Kar-Wai

Batman v Superman

Veteran (2015)

City on Fire and A Better Tomorrow. Back when Chow Yun Fat was absolutely brilliant.

Best mainland China movie made to date, you can't even argue against this.

why are cop/gang movies so popular? On the top of my head I've seen Infernal Affairs and that movie with the big and little brother (anybody know the name?)

Pic related is A Touch of Sin, also by Zhangke like

This is arthouse but it's really good nonetheless, might need to watch it twice.

Black Coal Tin Ice
actually pretty good

Three Times (2005)

There was an asian movie where the main character lived in other people's houses when they left for vacation.

He also never spoke. Do you kno what was it called?

3-Iron

South Korea:
Memories of Murder
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring
Vengeance Trilogy
Attack the Gas Station
A Bittersweet Life
Chaser
A Tale of Two Sisters
Housemaid (1960)
Old Boy
Save the Green Planet
New World (2013)
3-Iron
JSA
Oasis
I'm a Cyborg
Breathless
The Man From Nowhere
Mother
Peppermint Candy
Silmido
I Saw the Devil
Pieta
The Yellow Sea
The Host
Chingu
A Dirty Carnival
A Hard Day
Shiri
Castaway on the Moon

But I like Bane threads.

Yeah, that was it. Our teacher made us watch it in high school a few years ago. I wanted to watch it again but couldn't remember the name.
Thank you.

Bane's a big guy

Can anyone recommend some good and interesting films from mainland China?

Most seem to be from Hong Kong

Two good japanese ones that are really good:

Visitor Q
Tokyo.sora

As mentioned earlier in the thread, Jia Zhangke is the biggest (and best?) from mainland China over the last 15 years.

Look into Jia Zhangke ( ) for starters. He has some more good movies. Still Life is really good too. Btw he's married to Zao Tao who appears in pretty much all his movies, her acting is really good.

Other than that it's mostly smaller directors who have some occasional good movies. might be worth a watch.

I think the reason people think HK overshadows mainland is because Wong Kar-Wai is such a hack and he has so many great movies.

was for

>most are from Hong Kong
gee I wonder why

One of China's biggest and best is Zhang Yimou - check out Raise the Red Lantern, Hero, and To Live

>Raise the Red Lantern
is this actually good? It has been on my hard drive since ages but I've never gotten around to watching it

Yes. Zhang's visuals are as beautiful and grand as ever with a more intimate story than his later work. Sort-of a middle ground on both ends for him stylistically.

Only HK, Taiwan, Singapore, and China for the most part know how to make actual film. Japan and Korea occasionally produce something that can somewhat be considered 'art' but for the most part only trash comes out of there and it has everything to do with their obsession with Hollywood films as well as their immaturity in film making.

Does anime count?

I would say China is more immature in film-making than both Japan and SK. The hollywood obsession is probably true for SK but I'm not sure about Japan. I think it might just be a cultural thing where their fucked social lives leave little room for interests in anything other than the occasional anime porn