OVERLOOKED, UNDERAPPRECIATED ASIAN FILMS
T - Taiwan
V - Viet Nam
K - Korea
C - China
If
you're looking for substance over style, attention to detail,
casting that isn't beholding to marketing, films that shed light
on the human condition; and if you can live without special effects
and gratuitous violence for a couple of hours, the films listed
below (from past and present) promise to satisfy.
T - Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
T - Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming Liang)
T - Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee)
T - A City of Sadness (Hsiao Hsien Hou)
T - Dust in the Wind (Hsiao Hsien Hou)
T - A City of Sadness (Hsiao Hsien Hou)
V -
Vertical Ray of the Sun (Tran Anh Hung)
V - The Floating Lives (Quang Binh Nguyen Phan)
V - Buffalo Boy (Minh Nguyen Vo)
V - The Scent of Green Papaya (Trahn Anh Hung)
V - Sand Life (Nguyen Rhanh Van)
K -
Spring Summer Autum Winter (Kim Ki-duk)
K - Moving On (Dan-bi Yoon)
K - Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
K - Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
K - Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)
K - The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)
K - Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong)
C -
2046 (Kar-Wai Wang)
C - Not One Less (Yimou Zhang)
C - In the Mood for Love (Kar-Wai Wong)
C - Postman in Shagri-La (Yu Zhong)
C - Postman in the Mountain (Huo Jianqi)
C - The Farewell (Lulu Wang)
C - Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
C - The Story of Qiu Ju (Yimou Zhang)
C - Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang)
C - Red Sorghum (Yimou Zhang)
C - Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu)
C - Quitting (Zhang Yang)
C - Wisdom Tooth (Liang Ming)
C - Black Blood (Miaoyan Zhang)
C - Snow in the Wind (Yang Yazhou)
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