• Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.

Asian Cinema 2011

Status
Not open for further replies.
C

CiSTM

Banned
CaptYamato said:
Yesasia sold out and a few days later they opened it back up. So maybe they are printing more?
Click to expand...
Actually you are right. It wasn't CJ Ent. release so it probably will get other prints.


All the Korean films I have imported have quality subs. It's sad that we never got a release here. Tartan going under really hurt the flow of Asian films to America.
Click to expand...
Same here. Daytime Drinking is the only case where the subs have been horrible everything else primo.
 
T

ThirstyFly

Member
There's some concern on blu-ray.com that A Bittersweet Life may have SDH subtitles due to the fact that Content Zone has only included SDH English subtitles for it's other movie releases on Blu-ray (according to a poster, I have no facts to back this up).

I'm definitely going to hold off on importing until it's confirmed if the subs are SDH or standard. I find SDH subtitles too distracting and I wouldn't be able to watch the movie like that. I don't need the limited edition, so waiting for the release date shouldn't be an issue.
 
K

K444WSR

Member
Seam said:
a-better-tomorrow-1986.jpg


Watching A better tomorrow, good film!
Click to expand...
Great film. This along with hard boiled and the killer, are amongst my favourite films.
 
E

equap

Banned
I saw 13 Assassins recently, good movie but one thing confuses me. I thought that hunter guy/hobo got killed??! and then he showed up alive at the end......WTF?!??!
 
T

TheKaeptain

Banned
equap said:
I saw 13 Assassins recently, good movie but one thing confuses me. I thought that hunter guy/hobo got killed??! and then he showed up alive at the end......WTF?!??!
Click to expand...
He wasn't what you thought he was.
 
V

Vard

Member
CiSTM said:
IIRC the license of the film no longer belongs to Madhouse. Masao Maruyama has left the building and is gearing up for his new company (Mappa) and dream machine is going to be finished there... At least I hope so, I want my last Kon movie :(
Click to expand...
Oh you're half-right. http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-ne...sao-maruyama-talks-mappa-and-dreaming-machine

So it is with Mappa now, but the project is still on hold. He also said:
I don't care how many years it's going to take; I will get the financing required to complete the title.
Click to expand...
 
P

panda21

Member
Poetry is pretty amazing. Really involving and not at all what I was expecting, and manages to stay interesting despite being quite long.
 
Z

ZoddGutts

Member
Watched a couple more of Hong Kong movies. The Detective was pretty good for the most part, worth seeing. Accident is good but at the same time you can't help but be disappointed by the film because it had more potential than what turned out to be.
 
P

panda21

Member
is a bs life ever coming out on bluray in europe/uk? i've been tempted to get the dvd a few times

also is this the amazing one or is that ahjussi?
 
X

Xater

Member
Probably going to watch Confessions on thursday. A local art house cinema is showing it just subtitled. Should be great!

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnws8ZymxME

Well like I said, I saw it on thursday. Great film with an interesting way of telling the story. Also probably one of the meanest pieces of fiction I have seen/read in a while.
 
K

Ken

Member
Not sure if this is the right place to ask this but does anyone know the title for this film?

It's a Hong Kong movie about cops looking for some terrorists (?). The terrorists eventually hole themselves up in an apartment building with a father and his two kids, and run into another group of terrorists (?) from mainland China.

And I might as well ask here as well, are there any good Cantonese comedy films or dramas anyone could recommend? Thanks.
 
T

TheKaeptain

Banned
^that is what I said when I watched the Milocrorze trailer.


panda21 said:
is a bs life ever coming out on bluray in europe/uk? i've been tempted to get the dvd a few times

also is this the amazing one or is that ahjussi?
Click to expand...

The license is in limbo in the UK and USA. Ahjussi=Man From Nowhere.
 
V

Vard

Member
P

Peru

Member
It was decent. Very pretty interior shots. It was a melodrama but I wish they'd gone further with the melo earlier in the movie, they hold off on the juicy stuff for too long. I wanted more sex, more jealousy, more antics.
 
S

sefskillz

shitting in the alley outside your window
Peru said:
It was decent. Very pretty interior shots. It was a melodrama but I wish they'd gone further with the melo earlier in the movie, they hold off on the juicy stuff for too long. I wanted more sex, more jealousy, more antics.
Click to expand...
pretty much sums up my feelings. i rewatched the trailer recently and it just reminded me how good it could have been. trailer is pretty damn great, but the film just didnt hit the mark overall. still, not a bad watch
 
C

Cosmic Bus

pristine morning snow
Has anyone seen Nobuhiro Yamashita's My Back Pages? I really enjoyed Linda, Linda, Linda a few years ago, and while this is obviously quite different in tone, reviews are quite good overall. Trailer (sadly unsubbed).

Based on Saburo Kawamoto’s autobiographical novel “My Back Pages: Aru 60-nendai no Monogatari” (A Story of Life in the 60s), the film is set during the student protests at Tokyo University. At the time, Kawamoto was working as a journalist covering the protests, which were in reaction to the Japanese government’s tolerance of US involvement in the Vietnam War and the use of Okinawa as a staging ground for that war.

Satoshi Tsumabuki plays a reporter named Sawada who interviews protesters and collects data on behalf of the editorial department of a weekly publication. As tensions ramp up in the late 60s, he meets a young activist who introduces himself as “Umeyama” (Kenichi Matsuyama), although his real name turns out to be Katagiri. Katagiri tells him “Guns and other weapons are being gathered. In April, we’ll take action.”

Sawada has serious misgivings about Katagiri, but the two men strike up a strange rapport during a uniquely turbulent era.
Click to expand...
 
P

Popstar

Member
Just watched the teaser and a couple clips from The Sword Identity. Directed by the scriptwriter for Wong Kar-Wai's The Grandmasters.

It will be playing at VIFF so I will hopefully check it out then. Looks great. I'm a sucker for more meditative wuxia flicks.

Teaser.

Clips.
 
T

TheKaeptain

Banned
Anyone watch this:

rTEdY.jpg


It comes out on Tuesday. I would like to know if it is good. I watched some of The Beast Stalker and it was alright. Same director.
 
F

Flek

Banned
CaptYamato said:
Anyone watch this:

rTEdY.jpg


It comes out on Tuesday. I would like to know if it is good. I watched some of The Beast Stalker and it was alright. Same director.
Click to expand...

yeha i have the HK blurry and love it, way better than beast stalker imo - go get it!
 
T

TheKaeptain

Banned
Really? I only watched half of Beast and it was good. Damn, I will order it tomorrow then. The blu got an alright review on Bluray.com
 
F

Flek

Banned
yeha I've seen most of his movies and i would say that the sniper movie is the worst then comes beast stalker which is really good and then stool pigeon which is even better
 
C

CiSTM

Banned
blind by YUKIHIRO SHODA - Shortfilm set in post-nuclear Tokyo in a dimension not so distant from ours. Young salary-man's morning commute takes a surreal turn.
Ry6Ok.jpg

http://vimeo.com/28533174

People Mountain People Sea - trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DtJAnTrcsak#!

Headshot - trailer... doesn't look good as i was expecting but still pretty neat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adf0Pl8ibJc&feature=player_embedded

The Sword Identity
http://vimeo.com/28474028
http://vimeo.com/28474028

TATSUMI - awesome.
zbNqj.jpg

http://vimeo.com/23579935
http://vimeo.com/23598019

Seediq Bale - Theatrical Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi-C4eis2-Y&feature=player_embedded

SAUDADE trailer - cool!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2LrKkMPb9Y&feature=player_embedded
 
A

Angelus Errare

Banned
So Korea's big TV Movie Girl K is finally finished; what did everyone think of it? Figure I'd post it here since it's really more of a movie than a drama

KillerK.jpg




Synopsis for those who don't know

Cha Yeon Jin is a high school girl whose outwardly normal existence and reticent character masks her true identity: she is a professional assassin who is seeking vengeance for her mother after watching her killed in front of her eyes. She infiltrates SS1, the secret organization that her mother was connected to, by becoming one of their killers, all the while trying to track down her mother's murderer.
Click to expand...

Only 3 episodes each a little over an hour. Each one had 19세 이상 시청가 content rating but apparently did ridiculously well in it's timeslot (all 19 have to be shown between 11pm - 7am)

I recommend it, definitely getting the DVD when it comes out. It has more violence and full on boob shots (nipples and all) than most R rated movies >.> (Damn it Chrome keeps fucking up the rendering on my asian characters RAAAAAGGGGEEE!)
 
P

Peru

Member
Yeah I liked it. Straightforward over-the-top revenge movie in one sense, but I loved the raaage aspects of it. She was pissed as all hell when slaughtering those people, and played very well by the newcomer. Some brutal stuff emotionally in the third episode.
 
A

Angelus Errare

Banned
Peru said:
Yeah I liked it. Straightforward over-the-top revenge movie in one sense, but I loved the raaage aspects of it. She was pissed as all hell when slaughtering those people, and played very well by the newcomer. Some brutal stuff emotionally in the third episode.
Click to expand...

Word, definitely agree with you on that. I wonder what else in the same vein CGV has in store the ratings Girl K pulled in they should be doing more TV movies like this.
 
A

alex chilton

Member
Thanks for the heads up about Girl K. So it's actually good eh? I saw pics of it a while ago, didn't know anything about it really and just dismissed it cause I thought it would be something cheesy and second rate like Iris. Gonna check it out now.
 
D

Decado

Member
Can't seem to find anything on this "Girl K" tv movie.

I thought that Iris had potential but got lost in the romance angle and shitty K-pop interludes.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

Korean Netflix Show Review: Mr Plankton *SPOILERS*
12
4K
near replied
Shift Up CEO says his Stellar Blade and NIKKE character designs come from “following his instincts”
Game Dev 2
89
6K
Putonahappyface replied
The Virtues of Ancient Rome
45
2K
Liljagare replied
What actually happened to Warren Ellis?
14
2K
CGNoire replied
Andy Serkis, Ben Starr, Jennifer English, and Charlie Cox join the cast of The Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
News Trailer 2
58
3K
DelireMan7 replied
Top Bottom