Title: AsiaTorrents.me + General Asian Stuff Discussion Post by: BurntSnow on October 10, 2012, 01:06:33 AM I've been trying to get into more Korean culture lately (yes, because I got a girlfriend; no, I will not show a picture because I would prefer not to reveal her face and/or age) so I went to the website in the title and it's actually really great. Pretty big community for a private tracker and the system flows smoothly, too. Seed as much as you leech and for every 100 hours or so that you are seeding at least one torrent you get a free GB added to your seed ratio. Anyways, some general rules of this thread:
1. Please don't try to intentionally derail the thread (unless you're Goat). It's disrespectful and ruins the fun for all of us. 2. If you don't like Asian girls then don't comment. That's what the off-topic board is for, go make your own anti-Asian thread. 3. No, I am not obsessed. Title: Re: AsiaTorrents.me + General Asian Stuff Discussion Post by: gweedo on October 10, 2012, 01:31:41 AM I do have to say oldboy and battle royale are two movies I think are amazing. I really can't wait to see what the Oldboy director can do in the American horror genre.
Title: Re: AsiaTorrents.me + General Asian Stuff Discussion Post by: FirstAscent on October 10, 2012, 04:16:08 AM This isn't some random list. I have handpicked these films based upon criteria. All are Asian films. Countries or regions include Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Vietnam. Learn the directors, the periods, and the actors. Learn the styles of each director. This list contains some very famous films. One of them is ranked the best film ever made (regardless of time or origin). Several others appear in the top 50 films of all time. Most all are highly rated by the various review sites. Many are considered to be 'Great Films' by a well known reviewer.
And you should pay for some films. Because if everyone leaches, then nobody is going to invest in making films. The list is not in some particular order. Links are added at random as I feel like it. The Host Manji: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-5XRJYsOlc The Warped Ones Chungking Express: http://mubi.com/films/chungking-express I Hate But Love 2046: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=G0XoGNy-4_c#t=1826s Late Spring Late Autumn Farewell my Concubine A Bittersweet Life Ashes of Time Redux: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saHxm_md60c Equinox Flower Early Spring Battle Royale Tokyo Twilight: http://mubi.com/films/tokyo-twilight The Scent of Green Papaya Days of Being Wild: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cExEkJjyD8 High and Low Cyclo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdOPQj8ccPA Lost in Translation Yi Yi: http://mubi.com/films/yi-yi-a-one-and-a-two The Makioka Sisters Pale Flower: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOOr4nuWFqU Woman in the Dunes The Face of Another Pitfall Mystery Train: http://mubi.com/films/mystery-train Secret Sunshine Tokyo Drifter Branded to Kill No Regrets of our Youth Priest of Darkness Spirited Away My Summer at Grandpa's The Sandwich Man Taipei Story That Day, on the Beach: http://mubi.com/films/that-day-on-the-beach Temptress Moon Three... Extremes Black Sun A Borrowed Life The Third Dead Angle Intimidation Thirst For Love Lightning Sudden Rain Sound of the Mountain A Wife's Heart Untamed Doube Suicide Japanese Summer: Double Suicide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1J9Migw-zQ Anzukko Daughters, Wives and a Mother As a Wife, As a Woman A Wanderer's Notebook A Woman's Story Yearning Mother I Lived, But... Affair in the Snow Flame and Women: http://mubi.com/films/flame-and-women Home From the Sea All About Lily Chou-Chou All Around Us Tokyo Sonata The Taste of Tea: http://mubi.com/films/the-taste-of-tea Vibrator Black Rain (Shohei Imamura) Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees Pandemomium Scattered Clouds Silence Has no Wings The Bad Sleep Well Flowing The Crucified Woman Where Chimneys are Seen: http://mubi.com/films/where-chimneys-are-seen Flavor of Green Tea over Rice The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums What Time is it There? After the Rain Spring in a Small Town (1948) Floating Clouds (1955): http://mubi.com/films/floating-clouds Blind Beast Giants and Toys Seisaku's Wife The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka The Terrorizers A City of Sadness: http://mubi.com/films/a-city-of-sadness Women in the Mirror Coup D'Etat The Human Promise The Affair: http://mubi.com/films/the-affair A Time to Live and a Time to Die Three Times The Puppetmaster Good Men, Good Women Flowers of Shanghai Millennium Mambo A Brighter Summer Day Silence Childhood Days Spy Sorge The Housemaid (1960) Three Seasons Forever Enthralled Devils on the Doorstep The Housemaid (2010) Ju Dou A Confucian Confusion Fires on the Plain Cure The Clone Returns Home Sansho the Bailiff Heroic Purgatory: http://mubi.com/films/heroic-purgatory A Story Written With Water: http://mubi.com/films/a-story-written-with-water Woman of the Lake Crazed Fruit I am Waiting Osaka Elegy Eros The Grandmasters Summer Soldiers Rikyu Tears on the Lion's Mane The Petrified Forest The Ruined Map Only on Mondays With Beauty and Sadness Manji: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-5XRJYsOlc Twenty-four Eyes Tokyo Olympiad The Eel Jigoku The Insect Woman The Vertical Ray of the Sun: http://mubi.com/films/the-vertical-ray-of-the-sun--2 Pigs and Battleships Norwegian Wood Empire of Passion: http://mubi.com/films/empire-of-passion Gate of Flesh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0xWk4_EMx4 Antonio Gaudi (Hiroshi Teshigahara) Kuroneko Intentions of Murder A Story of Floating Weeds Eros Plus Massacre The Pornographers Red Cliff Youth of the Beast The Only Son The End of Summer Death by Hanging Patriotism (1966) Street of Shame Dodes'Ka-Den Cafe Lumiere: http://mubi.com/films/cafe-lumiere Lust, Caution: http://mubi.com/films/lust-caution When a Woman Ascends the Stairs Vengeance is Mine: http://mubi.com/films/vengeance-is-mine An Autumn Afternoon Floating Weeds Good Morning Poetry In the Realm of the Senses The Human Condition Early Summer Last Life in the Universe Still Walking Raise the Red Lantern Dolls Kwaidan Onibaba Mother (2009) House The Hidden Fortress Hard Boiled Sanjuro Kagemusha Audition Fallen Angels: http://mubi.com/films/fallen-angels Hero Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring Harakiri Ugetsu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgBHeJfnJ5s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Ikiru Tokyo Story Hiroshima, Mon Amour Yojimbo Rashomon Oldboy In the Mood for Love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypY9OaKCfRU Seven Samurai Title: Re: AsiaTorrents.me + General Asian Stuff Discussion Post by: BurntSnow on October 13, 2012, 05:57:59 AM This isn't some random list. I have handpicked these films based upon criteria. All are Asian films. Countries or regions include Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Vietnam. Learn the directors, the periods, and the actors. Learn the styles of each director. This list contains some very famous films. One of them is ranked the best film ever made (regardless of time or origin). Several others appear in the top 50 films of all time. Most all are highly rated by the various review sites. Many are considered to be 'Great Films' by a well known reviewer. I'm incredibly impressed. Definitely will try to get to all of these. After Phone I'm going to watch Oldboy, and then go from there. And you should pay for some films. Because if everyone leaches, then nobody is going to invest in making films. The list is not in some particular order. Links are added at random as I feel like it. --- Title: Re: AsiaTorrents.me + General Asian Stuff Discussion Post by: FirstAscent on October 13, 2012, 04:28:59 PM This isn't some random list. I have handpicked these films based upon criteria. All are Asian films. Countries or regions include Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Vietnam. Learn the directors, the periods, and the actors. Learn the styles of each director. This list contains some very famous films. One of them is ranked the best film ever made (regardless of time or origin). Several others appear in the top 50 films of all time. Most all are highly rated by the various review sites. Many are considered to be 'Great Films' by a well known reviewer. I'm incredibly impressed. Definitely will try to get to all of these. After Phone I'm going to watch Oldboy, and then go from there. And you should pay for some films. Because if everyone leaches, then nobody is going to invest in making films. The list is not in some particular order. Links are added at random as I feel like it. --- Anyone taking an interest in Asian cinema must become familiar with the following directors: - Yasujiro Ozu - Wong Kar-Wai - Akira Kurosawa - Edward Yang - Tran Anh Hung - Kon Ichikawa - Masahiro Shinoda - Hiroshi Teshigahara - Lee Chang-dong - Hou Hsaio-hsien - Yoshishige Yoshida - Kenji Mizoguchi - Shohei Imamura - Nagasi Oshima - Mikio Naruse - Sejun Suzuki You might resist the older films due to your own tastes. I suggest you don't. Ease your way into such films if you desire, for there are treasures within. You may associate a lot of Asian cinema with gangster and swordplay fights. However, so many Asian films deal with family and relationships, and they are powerful films. Click all the links I provided in my prior post and watch the video trailers/clips to get a sampling of the genres. Above all, become familiar with the directors, and I'll say it again - do not discount the older films. You'll be missing a lot. And you can't ever lay claim to being a fan of Japanese Cinema unless you watch Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes and The Face of Another. Same goes for Yaujiro Ozu's Tokyo Twilight and Late Spring. And Masahiro Shinoda's Pale Flower. And Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu (a deficiency on my part which needs to rectified). And Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Iriku (another deficiency on my part which urgently needs to be rectified). And regarding non Japanese directors, Edward Yang's Yi Yi and Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love, 2046, Fallen Angels, and Chungking Express. Throw in Wong Kar-Wai's Ashes of Time Redux as well. The list goes on. Get to it! |