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What was the last Asian film you watched? I saw "I Saw the Devil." It's a really good Korean revenge movie. This guy that works with the police has a wife that died at the hands of a serial killer, so he tracks him down and makes him swallow this pill and he can hear everything around this guy and see where he's at on a GPS. Every time he goes and kills someone else he beats him and tortures him. There are some gruesome scenes, but nothing too bad.

Big Man Japan


wow

"Rodan"

Infernal Affairs III. The first one was remade as The Departed. All four are good.

Kaiji

I watched Confessions, directed by Tetsuya Nakashima, not long ago and was absolutely blown away by it. I really enjoyed Kamikaze Girls and Memories of Matsuko, but what surprised me about this one is how different it is from either of them - it's hard to believe that it shares the same director but it's absolutely brilliant all the same.

The most recent one though was The Time Traveller, an adaptation/sequel of Yasutaka Tsutshui's novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Riisa Naka is a decent actress and really quite cute too, but the film itself is nothing to write home about. I daresay the adaptation from 1983 is actually better.

I've not seen the Kaiji film adaptation, but the anime series was superb. I'll add it to my Lovefilm rental queue. "Zawa zawa!"

Chocolate, a Thai movie about an mostly-nonverbal autistic girl with savant-y karate skills. Not that bad for its genre. The fight scenes all need to be cut in half, the montage at the beginning could be considerably shorter as well. High-ish number of cliches, though mostly more or less well-handled. Her behavior was fairly stereotypical, although that never stopped her from getting s**t done. There were a goodly number of amusing and/or supremely badass moments in it, imho. The dynamic with her NT sidekick/on-and-off-damsel-in-distress inspires many a giggle.

Negative Happy Chain Saw Edge.
It was pretty stupid and predictable, and had too many stylized action sequences.
I only checked it out because it´s an adaptation of a novel by the author of Welcome to the N.H.K.