Hey, I have to buy a Christmas present for my friend and he is really into Asian Cinema. He is really into Sion Sono, Ryūichi Hiroki, Jia Zhangke plus Hong Kong cinema of the 80s and 90s. So I was thinking of a book.

He has read Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke and Planet Hong Kong..... I would imagine something on the lines of Planet Hong Kong would be good but no idea.

AFAIK a lot of Sino A listers who have a diverse range such as Zhang Ziyi have the career tendency of acting in martial arts and other physically demanding action roles early in their career before focusing on drama, comedy, and other range as they get older into their 30s and beyond. Plenty practically abandoning not just Wuxia and general matial arts but even overall bodily demanding action genre stuff by the time they reach past 40 minus genre specialists and those who already were practising martial arts to a serious degree outside of acting suche as Michelle Yeoh in personal time.

So I find it peculiar that Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia, who was practically the beauty goddess of Sino cinema during her career, went into physically tiresome roles after her 30s (where her most famous internationally known stuff were from this period of her career), and not t just that but basically ended her career with s Wuxia stuff by the time she retired at the age of 40.

I'm curious about the circumstances that led to this trajectory in her career? Especially when she was known primarily for her lovely face first and foremost during her 20s (and in turn was obviously typecasted into romance and drama)? Her most beloved roles now even within the Sino world are her martial arts stuff esp collaborations with Jet Li and Jackie Chan and her final Wuxia roles unlike others like Ziyi who are are associated nowadays with less active genres.

Discussion So i remember watching a show/movie about a younger girl living with her mom and dad/step dad. The dad/step dad was very creepy looking at her weird and I think abusive. Maybe the mom didn't care I don't remember. At one point I think she goes out to this like creepy building or something and meets this guy. There also might be a piano. It's weird at first. I wanna say he tries to kiss her and she starts crying or something. I also wanna say he figures out what happening and becomes close with her. Please let me know asap if you know. It's driving me crazy!!!

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I'm doing a work about the japanse new wave movement (nuberu bagu) and I need to watch this movie to do an analysis of how marginalized groups and cultural otherness is represented through the visual and narrative techniques (that's the topic of my work) And the problem?: I don't find anywhere to watch it ;)

Btw: if you know any other film from the movement that represents marginalized groups or cultural otherness and where I can watch it, It would be very helpful to me.

As the title says, drop recs

I’ve been searching for this Asian movie/series for a while now, but I haven’t been able to find it. I stumbled upon it on TikTok a while back. I’ll try my best to describe the plot:

The general story is about mothers wearing brooches with four or five small lights on them, which indicate their children’s performance at school. The performance levels determine each family’s quality of life and social status; the more lights on a brooch, the better the family’s lifestyle. I remember (at least from what I saw on TikTok) that the plot revolves around a family with a son and a daughter. The son is super smart and is his mother’s pride and joy, while the daughter struggles academically and receives tougher treatment from her mother.

SPOILER: There’s a scene where the daughter resorts to cheating in school to get better grades and gets caught. The son, on the other hand, ends up taking his own life due to the intense pressure to maintain perfect grades. Consequentially, when the mother is at the grocery store, the lights on her brooch start fading one by one, and the people around her stare in shock.

That’s all I can remember. I’d really appreciate any help identifying it because I was hooked and would love to watch the whole thing.

I seen a lot of Korean dramas and its common to see people who are 6 footers like Kwon Sangwoo. Same with many Japanese and Chinese movies in stuff other than martial arts.

So it makes me wonder why martial arts movie traditionally chose Asians who are at best average height and small even in Asian standards (baring exceptions like Bruce Lee who was 5'7 and the 5'10 Sonny Chiba)? Two of the biggest stars pre-2000s Jet Li and Jackie Chan were around 5'4-5'5 for example.

Of course people would claim its because Asians are growing taller today..................

Except outside of the martial arts genre you had people like Toshiro Mifune (who was 5'9) and the 182 cm Chow Yun-Fat (who was born in the 50s before the huge growth spurt hit Asia) and people who fit modern average Western standards height possibly a bit taller. More significant when you take into account what we think as average in the West is just recent and stats I seen pre 1950s claim the average say German was around 5'6 and it was common to see Greek people below '5'4. So they were already selecting tall people for non-martial arts role. True some of these actors like Toshiro and Chow Fat primarily acted in genres with martial arts involved a la historical epics like the 7 Samurai and mostly shootout action movies with some disarms and unarmed attacks thrown in the middle of gun fights. But still you had people like Isao Kimura who primarily played in drama and romance roles who were tall not just by Asian standards but even by the standards of smaller and less important European nations such as Hungary and Romania before the Great Wall fell in the 90s.

Where as martial arts genre stuff typically selected people who were short by Western European standards such as Mako and Philip Ahn (Master Kan in Kung Fu).

Why is this? Why do they typically select taller people across the rest of Asian cinema but martial arts movies seem to be the domain of people who are not only short by modern Western standards but even average or slightly below average in pre 80s Asian standards? What is the reason?

Nowadays its very common for tall people esp younger roles to be chosen of tall stature such as the recent Donny Yen. I mean considering a lot of these old movies went out of there way to choose villains who were pretty tall even by Western standards ranging from 6'2-even 6'6 and taller, why was the leading roles often just average by Asian standards?

The West has a tradition of selecting tall people in martial arts flicks or at least action roles involving lots of Hand to hand combat even as far as the 70s as seen in Tom Laughlin and Alain Delon! So I don't get why the norm in old Asian flicks and Western stuff taking place in Wuxia and Kung Fu settings often chose middle height people to play martial arts roles?!

What is the phenomenon behind this? I mean its quite BS that many of these same Asian martial arts movies frequently find a big 6 feet 2 inches tall 300 pound Sumo wrestler or 6'6 giant muscular Triad thug as chapter boss fight, if not the ultimate big bad of the movie even before Bruce Lee introduced the genre during the 70s. Even Western martial arts flicks or action movies starring relatively short actors like Jet Li such as Rush Hour 3 routinely a big bad giant Asian guy to play thug opposing the smaller white or black and Asian duo! The Rush Hour 3 example is almost 8 feet tall for Christ's sake and my memory's hazy but I seen plenty of other examples in big action flicks. I mean another Jet Li movie War had no issue finding a few Japanese actors bordering the 6 feet range, if not 6 feet tall, to play the Yakuza thug including at least one taller and stronger than Jason Statham!

So why do they tend to choose short Asian leads for martial arts movies even in Asia despite the fact 5'9-5'10 has been the norm in historical, drama, and romance hell even comedy movies in East Asia as early as the 50s and earlier?

Shout-out to @fanaticaldragon who advised me to watch these, a few years ago? I finally watched one brother, and I loved it!

Rurouni Kenshin (2012)

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With all the rage about Alain Delon's death in the media and how every major website in the Sino world from Hong Kong newspapers' official websites to Taiwanese blogs and even Chinese diaspora living in other non-Western countries had written stuff in other languages such as Malay under web domains for their own languages (which would happen to include a couple of people of Chinese descent who don't know any Sino language such as Indonesian Chinese)....... Delon's passing was basically given focused everywhere in among Sino netizens and diaspora who forgotten to speak any Chinese language.

So it makes me want to ask...... I just watched Manhunt and Sandakan No. 8 two movies which are the top 3 highest grossing of all time in ticket admissions from Japan......... With over 80% of the sales coming from Chinese audiences! To the point that Manhunt is still the highest grossing foreign movie ever released in China and Sandakan 8 also still remains the runner up or 3rd place depending on the source you read. How much did they profit to be precise? Manhunt made over 300 million tickets sold in China (with some sources saying total market life time is close to a billion at over 800 million admissions!) while Sandakan is the 100 million sold tickets range.

And thus it should be obvious the leads of both movies Ken Takakura and Komaki Kurihara were catapulted to the top of the AAA list giants name within China with both stars getting a lot of their famous works from Japan dubbed into Chinese theatrical releases and later on Kurihara and Takakura would star as among the leads of their own Chinese-language productions. Up until his death Takakura would continiously receive media coverage from China and visit Beijing several times near the end of his life. The same happened to Kurhara except she visited China with more frequency since the late 80s coming back every now and then an to this day she still gets honorary visits from the Chinese industry and media, even a few politicians. Takakura was so beloved in China that when he died, the Chinese foreign ministry at the time praised him in an obituary for improving the relations between China and Japan.

For Komaki Kurhara, Sandakan No. 8 sped up in how the comfort women and other touchy topics regarding sexual assault esp rape by the Japanese army within China was approached by the general populace. As Wikipedia sums up, the struggles the movie's co-protagonist goes through was something the general mainland Chinese populace identified with in light of how an entire generation of the country suffered through the horrific Comfort Woman system Esp the human trafficking issue depicted in the movie.

So I'm wondering were Ken Takakura and Komaki Kurihara also household names in Taiwan and Hong Kong and the rest of the Sinosphere like Alain Delon was? I can't seem to find much info on them in Cantonese and Hokkien nor in the languages of places the Chinese diaspora frequently moves to across Asia such as Indonesian and Malaysia. So I'm wondering how well received where they in the rests of the Chinese-speaking world?

New to Reddit here and was curious to see if there was a page regarding Asian film aficionados. As mentioned, saw that Hong Kong horror movie "The Eye." Not bad, but not as regarded as I had heard. It's got that 2000s charm with the sewer green, anal blue color that coated so many movies back then, which I mock but I miss. Story is solid, it's just not scary minus a few creepy scenes. The ending is also unnecessarily over-the-top BUT, again, not a bad movie. Worth a watch if you can find a rip of it.

\"The Eye\" - The Pang Brothers 3/5

As per the title, my wife and I are looking for something to aid on our language gathering journey. We are unfamiliar with what is available that is native Thai and not a mere dub from elsewhere.

Preferably something with more of an actual storyline to it and not petty love triangle stuff.

Hi guys! Can you suggest Asian films, series or short films that portray intergenerational trauma. Thanks :)

Big fan of Korean/Thai/Chinese/Japanese films, especially dramas. What are some films that deal with death, heartbreak, conflict between friends and family, sickness and generally heavy stuff.Preferrably with nicely written characters.

Some of my favourites are: Hope, An elephant sitting still, Happy Old Year, Silenced, Forgotten

I’ve recently got into some works of Jun Kurosawa and have been enamored by his style. Unfortunately though, I’m having a tough time finding most of his short films. Anything to help point me in the right direction to seeing more of his work would be much appreciated.

I have some special edition Region-3 DVDs of Korean films that I'd like to attempt to sell. Is there a niche website that would give me a better chance at doing this, or would eBay be the best bet? Would it be worth it to post what I want to sell here or on another subreddit? Does anyone here still collect them?

it's about a librarian who's also a secret radio host in the nighttime. she reads love confession letters sent by her listeners on her program and helps her audience with romance probems. one day she gets a letter adressed to her cause she has an admirer. i recommend!