Hey guys,
I started a blog recently that has zero followers(obviously) about some asian cinema that has struck me recently. I will be updating it as often as possible. Let me know what you think. If you have any comments or film recommendations please shoot them my way.
http://thingsimdiggin.blogspot.com/

Cool. I like your writing style. I watched Realm of the Senses back when I was still doing a lot of Japanese cinema which ran up to about the time of A Taxing Woman Returns. As that culture turned to violent gangster movies followed by pointlessly vengeful spirits I moved towards Hong Kong cinema. Main land China films always seemed to melodramatic for me.

Keep at it.

all people need to do is watch Visitor Q..my all time favorite...I have yet to find any movie to top it
great blog keep it up!!

korea in the early late 90's and early 00's were untouchable. they sadly have dropped off recently and japan has taken back the crown again in my opinion.

That was great! Bonkers, but great!
Me and my ex were watching it one day and our flatmate walked in, looked at us and said "if you 2 have that look on your faces, I don't even wanna know what you are watching"

Nice to see this blog. I just got Empire of Passion this week .

Fav Japanese film I watched this month is Okuribito "Departures". Highly recommended!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1069238/

For anime, finally watching Ergo Proxy and also Osamu Tezuka's Freedom Projects.

Did you see Tokyo Sonata?

great thread. i've been watching trailers for all of the above mentioned.

Okuribito and Tokyo Sonata look very moving.
I've been meaning to watch Freedom Projects

I just purchased:
Legend of the Shadowless Sword - Korean
Tokyo Gore Police
Takashi Miike's Black Society Trilogy

If you have not seen anything by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, do it. Start out w/ Charisma and go from there. Some of his films are marketed as horror b/c American distributers have no idea what his films are really about.

I hope this is ok, if not, let me know.

http://www.archive.org/details/Mushroom_Attack
Matango for anyone interested.

I had never seen this until the other night, was a bit of a slow burner, but worth it in the end.
And I can finally appreciate the toys

oh yeah, plot holes galore! Just need to throw logic out the window.

I think the sad part is that they do know what his films are about, money is just more important. Some of the smartest people out there work in the film industry. It makes it even more depressing that we have to wade through so much trash to find anything.

Anyone else been checking out the NYAFF? Anyone wanna get together and catch something this weekend?

Anyone give Three...Extremes a view yet? Three short stories. I think two of the three were good. The dumplings one grossed me out a bit too much.

Yes, good stuff! Dumplings was my favorite (check out the extended cut).

Dumplings wasn't bad to me. It was when that lady aborted that young girl's fetus out. I have only seen the extended cut, so I got the good stuff.

Not sure if this topic is strictly horror / gore, but I've been watching some Johnnie To films as of late. The Mission, Breaking News, Exiled, and a few others. His shootout scenes are spectacular, especially with the music going on.

The Infernal Affairs trilogy is also something good to watch. Sad endings for each one, but very good. Makes the American movie the Departed look like crap.