Ultimate Foreign (Mainly Far Eastern) Films (21 titles)
I suddenly discovered that watching films not in English wasn't just for the arty farty liberal unwashed brigade. Now I can't get enough!
Battle Royale
Who needs ASBO's?
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Battle Royale
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Fujiwara Tatsuya, Maeda Aki, Yamamoto Taro
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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Japan at the start of the new millennium. The country is in a state of chaos, violence by rebellious teenagers in schools is completely out of control. The government hits back with a new law: every year a school class picked at random will be cast away on a desert island to fight it out among ..read more »
72%
from 21,666 members
OldBoy
Possibly the best film ever made?
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OldBoy
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Kang Hye-jeong
Director: Chan-wook Park, Park Chan-Wook
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A man is inexplicably kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years and his wife is brutally murdered. On his release, he is given a wallet full of money and a mobile phone. A stranger calls and asks him to try and figure out why he was imprisoned. A girl appears and promises to help him solve the enigma ..read more »
72%
from 41,381 members
Lady Vengeance
No wishy washy Hollywood moralistic claptrap from this film. You do the crime... you get some scissors in your neck
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Lady Vengeance
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Lee Young-Ae, Choi Min-Sik, Kim Si-Hu
Director: Park Chan-Wook
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Another tale of revenge from the creator of OldBoy. Lee Guem-ja has been released from prison having served 13 years for the kidnapping and murder of a child. A seemingly unassuming prisoner, Guem-ja has in fact been plotting her revenge on the man who was responsible for her incarceration. With ..read more »
64%
from 15,515 members
Sympathy For Mr Vengeance
Really nice cinematics, great storyline, compelling characters
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Sympathy For Mr Vengeance
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Song Kang-ho, Hyun-Joon Shin, Bae Du-na
Director: Park Chan-Wook
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A deaf-mute man, Ryu, works in a smelting factory and inhabits his own silent world, oblivious to the din both at work and in his downscale apartment building. He idolizes his sister, who urgently needs a kidney transplant, and when he's laid off and then tricked out of his savings by organ ..read more »
68%
from 8,865 members
Zatoichi
5 years since I watched it but still remember some of the scenes like it was yesterday
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Zatoichi
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano
Director: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
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Takeshi Kitano, best known for such gangster films as VIOLENT COP, BOILING POINT, and BROTHER, makes his first period drama with ZATOICHI, an updating of the classic Japanese character portrayed by Shintaro Katsu in movies and television from 1962 to 1989. Zatoichi is a blind samurai who shuffles ..read more »
70%
from 18,850 members
Audition
"Zzzz OK, I can't really see the fasination with this film, nothing is happening... Wow hey I didn't expect that!" Never has a saying been truer.
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Audition
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki
Director: Takashi Miike
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AUDITION is an art-house cult horror film that will be talked about for a long time to come. Ryo Ishibashi stars as Aoyama, a single father who has not dated since his wife died seven years earlier. To help find another woman to bring joy into Aoyama's charmless life, his best friend, television ..read more »
62%
from 15,654 members
Visitor Q
Even I thought this was a bit sick! How many taboo's have been broken? Really good but don't watch with your grandmother.
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Visitor Q
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Kenichi Endo, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe
Director: Takashi Miike
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In Miike Takashi's outrageous, taboo-busting satire Vistor Q, shamed reporter Kiyoshi Yamazaki visits one of Japan's many comfort houses to make a documentary about sex and violence amongst the nation's youth and is surprised to encounter his nubile daughter there. Soon after he meets "Q", an ..read more »
57%
from 2,810 members
Ichi The Killer
My first real graphic, no holds barred, Japanese kill fest. Takeshi Miike take a bow son.
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Ichi The Killer
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto
Director: Takashi Miike
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Prolific director Takashi Miike (AUDITION) keeps finding new ways to test the boundaries of on-screen violence. ICHI THE KILLER is a masterful piece of filmmaking, simultaneously funny and horrific, but it's only for viewers with strong stomachs. One character, Kakihara (Japanese indie film ..read more »
64%
from 8,429 members
Dumplings
Try explaining the plot to people at work without being arrested.
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Dumplings
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Ling Bai, Pauline Lau, Tony Leung Ka Fai
Director: Fruit Chan
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No woman can resist the temptation of potential rejuvenation - for some it's a dreamy blissful chase; for others a never-ending nightmare of endless pursuit. But Qing can afford it all. An ex-starlet turned wife of a prominent rich man, Qing is destined to have this dream come true. Qing uses a lot ..read more »
59%
from 3,659 members
Three Extremes
Two decent short stories squashed between a short version of Dumplings
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Three Extremes
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Mai Suzuki, Pauline Lau, Tony Leung Ka Fai
Director: Takashi Miike, Park Chan-Wook, Fruit Chan
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THREE...EXTREMES brings together a team of highly-regarded Asian filmmakers, featuring a trio of short works by Hong Kong's Fruit Chan (DURIAN DURIAN), Korea's Chan-wook Park (OLDBOY), and Japan's Takashi Miike (AUDITION). The trilogy opens with Chan's disgustingly entertaining DUMPLINGS, which he ..read more »
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from 2,499 members
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