Today I will look back at the 10 best Asian movies I’ve watched in 2012. No Chinese movies will be included since I just composed a list yesterday. 10. Secret Sunshine dir. Lee Chang-dong According to Lee in the interview, the movie is not about religion but about the struggle of an ordinary person who fails […]
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10 Best Chinese Movies – 2012 Roundup One
From today I will embark upon my 2012 roundup series that will include all the terrific films I have watched in the calender year of 2012. Hopefully these roundup lists would be useful for you as good recommendations. Let’s begin with the best Chinese movies I saw this year. After watching 20-plus Chinese movies within […]
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December Film Recommendations
Since I’m gonna do a 2012 roundup series on this blog for the rest of December, the film recommendation of this month’s edition is earlier than last month.BUT I have more good film to recommend this time. ★★★★★ Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters This is a film Paul Schrader was born to make, […]
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Top 100 Films on Taste of Cinema
I made a top 100 favorite film list back in March this year to mark my 50th post. Now nine months have passed, and the posts on Taste of Cinema have reached 200,it is the time to adjust this “ever-changing” epic list. Ten changes have been made from the old list, that’s ten films dropped […]
Tatsuya Nakadai, Happy Birthday!
Today marks the 80th birthday of the legendary Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai, who was most famously known as the leading man of Akira Kurosawa’s late films like Ran and Kagemusha. Unlike another well-known Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune, who was criticized as “only being able to act Samurai well”, Nakadai has a wider range in his performances. […]
Yasujiro Ozu, Happy Birthday!
Today marks the 109th birthday of great Japanese auteur Yasujirô Ozu, it also means this master of cinema has left us for 49 years(Ozu was born and died on the same day). This year, his most important film Tokyo Story was voted as the best film in the Sight & Sound top 100 films of all […]