All about Asian Movie

Asian movie has developed very fast for these year. You can exactly get good story telling, gorgeous pictures, rich culture and different touching theme at the same time.

More and more people are not only concentrate on hollywood or French movie, but also have started to pay more attention on Asian movie. Are you interested in it? If you do, I'm sure your life will get more fun!

Taipei exchange

Directed by: Hisao Ya-chuan

Produced by: Hou Hsiao-hsien

Written by: Hsiao Ya-chuan

Starring: Kwai Lun-chuan

        Zaizai Lin

        Hou Zhi-jian

This is an exchange story happens in a coffee shop. Doris opens a coffee shop with her younger sister, Josie. They ask their guests to bring a gift at the opening ceremony, but the gifts filled over the shop. So Josie gets an idea and starts to let customers to trade things that they think the item is equal value.

In my opinion, this story is really interesting, and also I like the style of directing which is really humor and funny. In the story, everyone has their own dream, and Doris’s dream is to open a coffee shop and exchange items in her coffee shop. One day she met one customer who is a pilot. He has 36 handmade soaps, then he shares his stories with Doris, and Doris draws for his stories which are basic on each soap. After that, Doris gets a dream because of his stories, which is traveling around the world. So she gives the store to a travel agency and her sister in order to exchange 36 cities’ airplane tickets.

When I watched this movie, I felt I was reaching my dream. I want to travel all over the world, too. In my point of view, keep going to follow your dream, no matter how hard to reach just keeps going to do, is important and hard thing to insist in everyone’s life. But you should believe that one day the dream will come true.

Confessions

Directed by: Tetsuya Nakashima

Written by: Tetsuya Nakashima

          Kanae Minato

Starring: Takako Matsu

[Confessions won the awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Editor at the 34^th Japan Academy Prize. It was selected as Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83^rd Awards.] From Wikipedia.

This is a psychological film which is about revenging.

Yuko Moriguchi is a junior high school teacher whose daughter died by accident. But after her investigation, she finds the truth is her daughter killed by two students in her class. So she reveals the truth to all the students in the class in the last day before spring break. And she tells them that the milk they are drinking, she put her husband’s HIV contaminated blood in it. Since that day, she quit from school but her avengement starts. Because of the ADIS virus, every student in that class is very worried about themselves, and they blame on the two students and crowd out them. The class becomes a hell then, the mind of students starts to warp and pervert, and finally the two little killers’ frequent depressions and stress were the prelude to a complete mental breakdown.

Because it’s too violent, the trailer just could be shown on the internet. Its violence is not only reflected in the image, but also hit audience by its beats. Ethics or justice? The process of killer and avenger keeps touching the audience heart during the whole movie.

In my opinion, this is the best Asian movie in 2010.

A Moment to Remember

Directed by:  Lee Jae-han
Produced by: Cha Seoung-jae
Written by: Lee Jae-Han
                     Kim Yeong-ha
Starring: Jung Woo-sung
     Son Ye-jin
              Baek Jong-hak

                    A moment to remember is a classic Korean movie which tells a love story.

Sun Jin is born in a rich, she is pretty and kind but gets a bad memory since she was a kid. Chul Soo is an illegitimate child and lives in poverty. Because of Sun Jin’s bad memory, they meet and fall in love. In their married life, they live happily together. Everything goes well at beginning until Sun Jin’s memory gets worse and worse. She displays forgetfulness more and more everyday. And then they find she gets Alzehimer disease. She is going to forget everything include what she did, where she is, who her husband is, and who she is. Despite the disease, Chul Soo doesn’t give up and keep helping Sun Jin to get memory back by different ways, although she always forgets who he is and blames on him. At the end, Sun Jin’s family and Chul Soo replays the scene they met first time, and she seems remember everything then, they hug in the jeep finally.

Almost people cry because of this sad story. Actually, the story telling is old, but this film is good at detail expressing, so that’s why it becomes a triumphant success movie. The external and internal conflict of two characters is built perfectly. It’s really very touching to watch they change over the course and the other emotional moments.

Can you image if you get this kind of disease that makes you forget everything you did and you have, and you can’t do anything against it? It is worse than “lost everything”, because the people who around you gets hurt. And there is nothing should be blamed on. That’s the saddest part.

Battle Royale

Directed by: Kinji Fukasaku

                      Produced by: Kenta Fukasaku
                    Kimio Kataoka
                     Chie Kobayashi
                          Toshio Nabeshima

Written by: Kenta Fukasaku

                      Koushun Takami

Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara
Aki Maeda
Taro Yamamoto
Takeshi Kitano
Masanobu Ando

This is a horror movie, not only about violence, bloodiness and betrayal, but also about faith.

A high school class which has forty students are selected government and shipped to a deserted island where they get random weapons and forced to fight to the death. There only one survivor can get back his or her freedom and leave the island.

This is a heart-stopping action film which teaches us a worthy lesson of teamwork and determination, but wrapping them up in a provocative, shockingly violent package. It’s surprise to watch the high school students form alliances and turn on each other and drop off one by one for surviving. The reality is cruel for everyone.

As usual, Fukasaku directs Battle Royale with force and conviction, it shouldn't be easily ignored, and also will not be easy to forget. The faces of those kids will linger long in your mind after the movie ends.



Curse of the Golden.Flower

Directed by: Yimou Zhang

Produced by: William Kong

                         Weiping Zhang

                      Yimou Zhang

Written by: Yimou Zhang

Starring: Chou Yun-fat

       Li Gong

       Jay Chou

       Junjie Qin

In this movie, the image is fantastic. Your eyes can get a great visual enjoy during the whole movie. The gorgeous golden color can’t be erased in your mind after the movie done for a while. Compare to the sense of sight, the story and theme become very weak. The external and internal conflict is not strong enough for each character. It is just like a beautiful melodrama and can’t touch the heart of audience at all. 

The simple story is about a general steals the throne and has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest during China's Tang dynasty. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family. But he lost everything except the high kingship at the end.

The emperor looks endowed with civil and martial virtues, but actually he is avaricious and relentless. That’s why he can get the throne. And the sad ending is directed by him. The empress is the victim of political marriage. She never gets any love from her husband. Because of loneliness, she falls love with her stepson. By the affair being found out, she becomes the target that the emperor wants to kill. One of her son is good kung fu and valued by the emperor. For protecting his mother, he decides to break with his father and plans an uprising. But his plan is failed and he is killed by the emperor.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Directed by: Ang Lee

Produced by: Li-Kong Hsu

                          William Kong

                Ang Lee

Starring: Chou Yun-fat

                   Michelle Yeoh

            Ziyi Zhang

                Chen Chang

This movie is beautiful and elegant; great shot and directed; touching and humorous. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the movie of 2000.

This is the story of two women during the Ching Dynasty. One of them tries to find justice and honor in her whole life, but it’s too late to discover the unfulfilled love. Another woman tries passionately to break free from the constraint society; even if it means giving up her privileges for a life of crime and passion. There’s an ethereal dramatic effect here that transcends a primary function of imagination and storytelling. Successfully applies its fantastical elements to develop story, character, and a kind of poetic license that captures the beauty of its own spirit.

It’s an action movie that doesn't try to blow you out of your seat, but rather it captures you in suspended awe for prolonged periods of time. Going into the film, I was prepared to be awed by the spectacular martial-arts sequences. But what caught me by surprise was how emotionally invested I became in the characters.