Your favorite Asian movies

Cnh I am a huge fan of the classics too and my favorite was the lone wolf and cub series as well as Zatoichi the blind swordsman. Infact I learned that shintaro katzu and tomisaburu (shogun assasin)wakayama were both brothers in real life. Akira kurosawa did a movie called rashimon and it was supposed to be played by shintaro katzu but he was such a big star from the zatoichi series that he had all these understudie film students with him that mr kurosawa kicked him off the set and fired him so they got a different guy to play him.

I love mike takeshki in all his yakuza movies and also sonny chiba as his movies were raw! But I am familiar with all the classic japanese cinema too and there is tons of hollywood movies that have remade these. Bruce willis in last man standing was a classic remake of akira's Yojimbo. Also there was this tales from the cript one about a guy who is nearly eaten by a gargoyle and is set free as long as he never speaks of the incident or what he saw. I noticed this when I watched the movie kwaidan from the name maski you mentioned above.

nguyendot wrote: »

All my home movies are Asian.

I will watch any movie with Anthony Wong Chau-Sang as hes one of the greatest actors in china next would be Donnie Yen followed by andy lau.

teekay0007 wrote: »

mrbiron wrote: »

Asian movies eh.....Big Trouble in Little China! Jack Burton really embraces the culture like none other.

You can say that again! Wasn't there a stunning green-eyed lady in that movie that PFB could fall in love with in every scene?

mrbiron wrote: »

We just mask sub par with a few explosions and gratuitous b00b shots to over compensate for a crap movie.

In my culture, we find 15-20% gratuity acceptable!

Your talking about her from sexin the city? Not a very talented layerd actress like mieko kaji, Meiko can portray a whole entire scene and speak a 1000 words with just one glimpse. That other actress kim kantrel? Or something is not even in the same league.

trj wrote: »

I have watched a lot of asian horror movies, but to name a few. The grudge, shutter, the ring comes to mind. All of them has been re-made in English, but the originals are spooky.
Only thing I don't like is having to read subtitles. I have been out of the game for sometime though. I don't know what kind of new asian movies are coming out.
I still watch shaolin soccer, kung fu hustle when I want to laugh a little and when I am in mood for proper cinematographic experience red cliff, war of arrows are the movies I can watch over and over again.

Watch the iceman with Donnie yen its awesome and a throwback to old school meets new stuff. Basically they are these super strong chi warrior super human kung fu masters from way back in like the ming dynasty and get frozen in the ice. They basicaly get thawed out and come back but hundreds of years have passed and they are walking around in modern society and are out of the loop big time. Its funny and has tons of action to keep you glued to the screen.

One of the greatest is detective dee and the phantom flame with Andy lau. This movie has the most expensive scenes ever created and its a tsu hark type of sherlock holmes. There was more extras in the scenes than any other movie before it. There was a statue they had to make for one of the scenes and alone just for that it cost over 12 million!

I loved both versions of that movie Voltz. Did any of you guys ever get to see the movie Gantz 1 and 2? Netflix has those on bluray and its stunning as are all the big live action movie manga adaptations. Those are more akin to Marvel action movies released here.