What Asian film should I watch tonight?
 

Okay, I have a stack, but need one picking. I'll review the choice made. No 'others' here, cos this is all I've got to choose from.

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Haven't seen any of those. What you should do is go out and rent "Battle Royale".

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Seen it. It's okay.

Trust me, if I haven't mentioned it here, I've probably seen it or I don't want to.

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Infernal Affairs.

... or Audition, I'm going through a Takashi Miike phase.

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tae guk gi, amazing war movie

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dude where's asian 19 year olds volume 8....that is what you should watch.

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Id see either of the Zatoichis or Ong-bak, all very good.
With a gun to my head Id recommend them in chronological order.
Avoid Hero.
The rest I dont know, but I've heard Auditon is... interesting.
Whats the name of that other film he made... nasty nasty stuff.

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old boy

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Tae Guk Gi is by far my favorite of those... although I've only seen that, Hero and Ong Bak.

Two other awesome newer Asian movies to check out are Oldboy and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring.

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Tae Guk Gi is by far my favorite of those... although I've only seen that, Hero and Ong Bak.

Two other awesome newer Asian movies to check out are Oldboy and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring.

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Old boy is on my radar, but not heard of the other one. Cool, thanks. (I'm interested in any new stuff coming out, but not stuff that's been around a little while already, if any ones got any suggestions).

I've also got all of Beat Takeshi's ones on my radar to collect/watch sometime too, as I really enjoyed 'Violent Cop'. But I want to clear the decks with the ones I put in the poll first.

AUDITION - What misery should have been!!
 

Go with AUDITION

Hero is great too and ong-bak has great ction flick but the story sucks

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I've heard the ones where the girls throw up on each other are kinda hot.

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Haven't seen any of those. What you should do is go out and rent "Battle Royale".

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Actually, I have seen HERO. BR, however, is sweet.

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Wow, surprised someone else has seen this one. Great movie. I heard they are remaking it for the states but I have the feeling the ending won't fly too well over here.

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And they'll probably do something dumb like cast Tom Cruise as the main character.

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Wow, surprised someone else has seen this one. Great movie. I heard they are remaking it for the states but I have the feeling the ending won't fly too well over here.

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Another vote for "Old Boy". This is a twisted movie with amazing visuals. Koreans rule.

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If you want Korean, twisted and beautiful visuals you gotta see Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring. Actually I wouldn't go as far as to call it twisted. The cinematography is stunning and the natural scenery is beautiful. Thinking about it more... I need to rent this again.

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If you want Korean, twisted and beautiful visuals you gotta see Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring. Actually I wouldn't go as far as to call it twisted. The cinematography is stunning and the natural scenery is beautiful. Thinking about it more... I need to rent this again.

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Thanks for the rec! Will check it out. Also, diebitter, Tae Guk Ki = great war movie. I think you'd like it.

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I've only seen 2 of these so I didn't want to vote, but wanted to see results so I voted Hero.

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All these are fine choices I'm sure, personally I'd pick Tae Guk Gi right now as I'm in the mood for a war movie.

That being said, my vote would be a write-in: NSFW

Swede

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Bullet in the Head is awesome - an epic, like The Deer Hunter.

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Bullet in the Head is awesome - an epic, like The Deer Hunter.

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Yah, I know it's awesome, just doesn't seem well known, from the voting [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

And, darn, I can't find it or Tae Guk Gi now! [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] I did find Lady Snowblood and Five Fingers of Death though, which I should have put in the vote.

Talk about a cock-up [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

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Battle Royale - top

or the Japanese version of the ring : Ringu

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Tae Guk Gi is probably the best of those by a considerable margin, but I haven't seen all of them, just almost all. Serious stuff, though.

Ong Bak is good fun, but sometimes feels a bit like recycled Jackie Chan.

The remake of Zatoichi is really a lot of fun. The tapdance scene in the end is, well, inexplicable and incredibly long.

Hero is great fun and visually absolutely incredible, but feels a bit artificial in its construction.

Bullet in the Head I have to see again. Everybody loves it but it didn't wow me, and it sounds like I'm the only guy it didn't. I suppose I should sit through it again to see if that changes.

Audition, I didn't see, and I didn't see the first Zatoichi, either.

For all around good film, I'd put Tae Guk Gi substantially above all the ones here that I have seen. It's quite moving, and the action scenes are the best I've ever seen in a war flick by a very, very long way. They leave the ones in Saving Private Ryan in the dust, for me. Much more concentrated and intimate, less patchy switching around for effect. You really see the thing itself, not an idea of it or presentation of it, in comparison. Absolutely convincing.

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So, Hero wins. Thanks for all the comments, they'll inform my decision about what order to watch the rest in.

Thanks all!

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Infernal Affairs is an absolute must-see. They're remaking it with Damon, DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson and Martin Sheen, and I don't see how the new one can possibly compete.

Gary

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Audition, then you'll get to see the lovely lady in my avatar in action.

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off-topic, my rommate's friend was over last night and he brought this guy he knows b/c he needed a ride. anyway, the guy's really creepy and seems to think i enjoy his company. i very clearly don't. so i'm reading 2+2 and this guy comes in and sits on my bed (b/c it's the only thing to sit on in my room) and starts talking to me about this movie for an hour and a half. dude just wouldn't leave, even though i wasn't contributing anything to the conversation and wasn't even looking in his direction. hell, i don't even know what color shirt he was wearing. it was really annoying.

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Infernal Affairs is an absolute must-see. They're remaking it with Damon, DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson and Martin Sheen, and I don't see how the new one can possibly compete.

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Hmm thanks for the heads up. I went to check the netflix customer reviews on it and all but the third got rave reviews. The third got average reviews but was said to wrap up all the loose ends well. So I put all three on my list.

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Audition, I didn't see, and I didn't see the first Zatoichi, either./quote]

Just to clarify, there were over 25 Zatoichi movies made. I think almost all of them were in black and white. I got a chance to watch a bunch of them on IFC. The new one isnt bad either, though I thought the choice to use CG blood was a little weird.

I recommend Tae Guk Gi. Someone also proposed Infernal Affairs and even though its not on the poll, I recommend that too.

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This should end this thread if you haven't seen it yet.

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Bad choice hero sucks!

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I was hoping you were referring to which Asian porn you were going to watch.

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This would be my choice.

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If we're going to start adding in other suggestions, I'm adding in Sword of Doom.

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If we're going to start adding in other suggestions, I'm adding in Sword of Doom.

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Great movie.

Lots of recommendations here for Oldboy, but I'd add in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (also directed by Chan-wook Park).

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I'll throw in another vote for Oldboy. Wow. It is truly one of the most mind warping movies I have seen. I do think it should be interesting to see what they do with an "Americanized" version.

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I'll throw in another vote for Oldboy. Wow. It is truly one of the most mind warping movies I have seen. I do think it should be interesting to see what they do with an "Americanized" version.

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Although I sincerely hope I'm wrong, my guess is they're going to dull it down and make the climax of the story less ridiculous/awesome.