AsiaTorrents.me + General Asian Stuff Discussion

[BurntSnow]

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.

[gweedo]

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.

[FirstAscent]

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

[BurntSnow]

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.

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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.

[FirstAscent]

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.

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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.

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!