favorite asian film

[coffeeman]

What is everones favorite asian film?

Crouching tiger ?

Battle Royale ?

Oldboy ?

Flying Daggers?

any others..

ps thanks for all the cool ideas about best french films..

[Rod Serling]

don't forget all the wonderful tartan asia extreme movies such as ringu 1, 2, 0, & the eye, dark water, etc

[INEEDANSWERS]

'The House of Flying Daggers' is personnally my favourite due to the way in manages to be visually enchanting and the way it incorporates the different sounds of movement especially throughout action scenes!

What about 'Hero' starring Jet Li: An unforgettable colossal martial arts epic where Tony Leung (as Broken Sword) and Maggie Cheung (as Flying Snow) -- non-kungfu persons, these are -- elevate themselves, martial-artly and emotionally, several thousand lightyears above the expectations of the fandom of Hong Kong movies since their debut in 1980's.

The following links might help you:

http://uk.geocities.com/rainforestwind/feast.htm

http://www.heroic-cinema.com/articles/top-2002.htm

http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/2P5OYDRNAG9V4/104-9798888-9535948?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Hope that helps!

[Fat Boy]

"Lashu shentan" aka "Hard Boiled". John Woo movie starring Yun Fat Chow & Tony Leung. Excellent action movie - special reference to the 2 minute tracking shot in the hospital gunfight/baby rescue scene full of gunshots, explosions & flying stuntmen. Only film I know of to claim "No babies were harmed during the making of this movie"

[stoo_pid]

Crouching Tiger is still my fave by a long chalk. Also still have a soft spot for Akira (does that count?)

[Dom Tuk]

Nothing even comes close to OLDBOY. Its probably the best movies ever made...asian or otherwise.

Dont forget 'Hero' for the best cinematography. Every frame is a work of art.

This by the way folks is my 1000th post on Answer bank.

[Aschenbach]

I recommend Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Seven Samurai and Ikiru.

Also Jackie Chan's classic Police Story and Project A.

Chow Yun Fat (from CTHD) is also great in Killer, Hong Kong 1948 and City On Fire.

Re: Battle Royale - I know it was a comic but someone should have told the director that it's difficult to get up let alone run around after suffering multiple bullet wounds. And the soundtrack resembled a Greatest Hits of Western classical music (Blue Danube, Air on a G String...)

[Ward-Minter]

Best Asian movie ever ever ever is "Audition" followed by "Ring".

[Dom Tuk]

WM...Audition is something else, loved it...have you seen oldboy??

[*ALFIE*]

I enjoyed a film called "Lagaan" - anyone heard of it ?

[Fatboy40]

Shaolin Soccer

[hollie_bee]

Kung fu hustle!!!! all the 'matrix' special effects with some hilaaaiiiirrrriiiioooouussss bits to add! Quality!