So, I recently moved to New York and soon got hold of a free ticket for Tribeca Film Festival. What should I watch? An Asian movie, of course… so I ended up seeing the premier of this great, new, Vietnamese martial art/action movie, directed by Le Thanh Son. I had no expectations and got surprised [...]
I haven’t seen many movies this year, so can only offer these for voting: And these I’ve only heard about, so recommend me the best:
(mostly 2008 movies and some late 2007 ones)
A couple of weeks ago I found and interesting Bhutanase blog on the Internet and sent them some questions about the movie industry. Norbu from the site “Kuzu” (Bhutan Weblog: www.kuzuzangpo.com) was kind enough to answer them, so here’s an interview with him about Bhutanese cinema: asiafan: – Imdb lists 10 movies from Bhutan, are there [...]
http://www.milarepafilm.com/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499238 Bhutanese movie from 2006 in Tibetan language. Premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. Director: Neten Chokling Rinpoche. Lead actor: Gimyan Lodro. The Bhutanese film industry seems to bloom, I already need both of my hands to count the movies made in the Himalayan kingdom. :) I found this movie because of a false record at imdb, I [...]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475750/ Typhoon aka Taepung (2005) is a Korean action drama. Another big budget film from the end of last year, which is not as good as much it costed but still a decent movie. As many times before, it is about a North-Korean terrorist, who’s chased on sea and in many countries. The story seems to be simple [...]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0778020/ Korean drama, romance – 2006. Yoon-hee is harrassed by her rich husband, and one day decides to kill herself, but then she’s saved by a similarly unfortunate policeman. As the movie title suggests, they develop a romantic relationship which leads to further complications… The unhappy marrige and aggressive husband drives Yoon-hee into the arms of a [...]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430651 Japanese black comedy from 2004 starring Tadanobu Asano. I watched this movie because I liked the soundtrack so much. With expectations based on the music I was a little disappointed, even though I was prepared to see something comepletely mindless. The film also stars Vinnie Jones (Lock Stock.., Snatch, X-men). Director is Gen Sekiguchi, it’s [...]