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.