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I'm a big fan of Zhang Yimou and would recommend most of his movies. His work from before 2000 have a very honest, touching, simple-life flavour to them delivered through his amazing use of colors and beautiful scenes. His movies are also a pretty good reflection of the average Chinese person's life, you know, outside the big cities like SH, HK and BJ.
Xingfu shiguang (2000)
About a blind girl that comes to the city to work as a masseuse and meets a man (played by zhao ben shan who is an absolutely amazing actor) who builds a fake massage house for her because he can't stand seeing her fail at her dream. Very touching movie with little comedic bits thrown in here and there.
Yi ge dou bu neng shao (1999)
A girl in the countryside tries to teach a class of kids when one of the kids run away. She goes on a journey into the big city to get him back. Very touching as well and shows how life is like in the very poor places of rural China.
Wo de fu qin mu qin (1999)
Probably the movie that made Zhang Ziyi famous. A very sweet love story about two people in rural China. Very sweet and heart warming I loved this movie.
Huozhe (1994)
A good hard look at the darkest ages of China. A real tragic movie that shows how fucked up the situation in China used to be.
Hong gao liang (1987)
A village is invaded by Japanese soldiers and the people fight to their last breath. Nothing more to say really. If I remember correctly, this is the movie that made Zhang Yimou famous.
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I'm really surprised that people mention many Japanese movies, yet no one mentions the best of them:
Kumonosu-jō
Dopperugengâ
Yume
Shichinin no Samurai
Yojimbo
All by the same director (guess who?). Absolute mastery in movie making, every single one of them.
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On March 20 2010 01:40 garista wrote:Show nested quote +On March 19 2010 09:03 7mk wrote:On December 21 2009 05:27 garista wrote:Nice selection Shauni. Love Exposure is so good! Here's my post from the other movie thread: ![[image loading]](http://img5.imagebanana.com/img/1n1rrd7a/loveexposure.jpg) I saw it at the Nippon Connection (a japanese film festival in Germany). It's 237 min. long and not a minute boring. Honestly. + Show Spoiler [Desciption] +[...] But now he’s gone and out-done himself with a four-hour movie about faith, religion, pornography, upskirt photography, fighting females and the Virgin Mary all scored to the insistent, pounding, slow-burning climax of Ravel’s “Bolero.” Based on the life of one of Sono’s friends, LOVE EXPOSURE is all about Yu, the son of a Catholic priest who loses his religion when his mother dies. Obsessed with sin and confession, Dad criticizes the state of his son’s spotless soul, claiming that his confessions are weak and simple and that he must confess real sins. Unable to make anything up, there’s nothing for Yu to do but become a sinner, and so the confused kid learns the ninja-tastic martial art of taking up-skirt photographs. Now a full-fledged pornographer he’s really got something to confess, earning beatings from his shocked dad. But in the middle of his new career, while dressed (as the result of losing a bet) as Sasori, the hero of a series of 70’s women-in-prison movies, Yu meets the love of his life, Yoko (Hikari Mitsushima), who’s in the middle of beating up a bunch of horrible men. Drag-clad Yu jumps into the fray and that’s when things get complicated. A villainess appears in the person of the giggling young schoolgirl, Aya (Sakura Ando) who shows up, stroking her green parakeet the way a Bond villain strokes his white cat, and soon she’s manipulating these two star-crossed lovers in the name of the cult for which she works, the Zero Church. [...] LOVE EXPOSURE has proven to be one of the biggest arthouse hits of all time in Japan, running for well over three months to sold-out shows, packed with teenagers. In this movie Sono pulls porn up from the gutter, and religion down from the heavens until the two meet and the most debased and the most divine become mirror images of each other, an alchemical marriage as breathtaking as turning lead into gold. Full of astonishing moments, you’ll see God in an upskirt photograph, and you’ll see an abuse victim in the Virgin Mary’s face. ( Source) Had to bump this thread because I just watched this movie.... what was that I dont even i mean I mean... hm damn I'm not sure I've ever seen a movie of which the story was so freakin ridiculous and absurd. Actually no I know I never have but I'm not sure I ever saw a movie that sucked me in like this either... let alone a movie that is freakin 4 hours long Haha ... you don't watch that many japanese movies, do you?  But you have to admit that it was time well spent.
No I dont.. I watched for example Takeshi Kitano movies before, they didnt have any of this sorta crazy weirdness.
But hell yeah it was time well spent :p
so glad I had finally found the time do watch it
On March 20 2010 05:08 Manit0u wrote:
I'm really surprised that people mention many Japanese movies, yet no one mentions the best of them:
Kumonosu-jō
Dopperugengâ
Yume
Shichinin no Samurai
Yojimbo
All by the same director (guess who?). Absolute mastery in movie making, every single one of them.
might as well just tell us
I googled "yume dopperugenga" and it lead be back to this thread haha
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Never thought I'd cry to an animated movie, but grave of the fireflies got to me. 
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On March 20 2010 05:08 Manit0u wrote:
I'm really surprised that people mention many Japanese movies, yet no one mentions the best of them:
Kumonosu-jō
Dopperugengâ
Yume
Shichinin no Samurai
Yojimbo
All by the same director (guess who?). Absolute mastery in movie making, every single one of them.
They are not by the same director.
Doppelganger is by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the others are by Akira Kurosawa.
And from Kiyoshi I prefer Cure and Kairo.
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Buying is not an option?
What about a video rental store? I mean, there are those that only have the latest mainstream shit and then there are others. Same with theaters.
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or Ip Man as it has been suggested earlier in this thread if ur looking for a good recent chinese martial arts action flicks.
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The Orphanage - Spain
I loved this movie, but I won't watch it again unless it's with a bunch of my friends. A psychological horror/thriller that is extremely engaging and spooky with great use of film techniques, storyline and acting to suck you right in. For a viewers who are mostly exposed to Hollywood horrors, this is a refreshing change that is intellectually engaging and actually scary. Watch this, and you'll be sleeping with the light on for days.
City of God - Brazil
A period drama describing the life of the young and underprivileged of Rio de Janeiro who live in the ironically named "City of God". It is an engaging movie with effective use of flashbacks to aid story progression. A very engaging and immersive film.
Others:
Mongol - Kazakhstan
Ip Man - China
Fearless - China
The Damned United - UK
12 Angry Men - US
The Godfather - US
The Prestige - US
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EPT![[image loading]](http://www.rapideyemovies.de/uploads/assets/trailer-photo/love-exposure_d70de03aa7639cf7e5b37af63715bd47.jpg)
