Blu-ray Community Top Asian Films [Read OP--due Feb 16]

[Grethiwha]

1. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (Japan, 1961)
2. Hazard (Japan, 2005)
3. Ran (Japan, 1985)
4. Ikiru (Japan, 1952)
5. Love Exposure (Japan, 2008)
6. Fallen Angels (Hong Kong, 1995)
7. The Happiness of the Katakuris (Japan, 2001)
8. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Japan, 1959)
9. The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (Japan, 1959)
10. Harakiri (Japan, 1962)
11. Seven Samurai (Japan, 1954)
12. Sansho the Bailiff (Japan, 1954)
13. Woman in the Dunes (Japan, 1964)
14. Grave of the Fireflies (Japan, 1988)
15. Branded to Kill (Japan, 1967)
16. Memories of Murder (South Korea, 2003)
17. The Bad Sleep Well (Japan, 1960)
18. Castaway on the Moon (South Korea, 2009)
19. Profound Desires of the Gods (Japan, 1968)
20. Kagemusha (Japan, 1980)
21. House (Japan, 1977)
22. Kwaidan (Japan, 1964)
23. Exte: Hair Extensions (Japan, 2007)
24. Mad Detective (Hong Kong, 2007)
25. Strange Circus (Japan, 2005)
26. Dreams (Japan, 1990)
27. Ugetsu (Japan, 1953)
28. I Live in Fear (Japan, 1955)
29. The Hidden Fortress (Japan, 1958)
30. Dodes'ka-den (Japan, 1970)
31. Drunken Angel (Japan, 1948)
32. Samurai Rebellion (Japan, 1967)
33. Tokyo Story (Japan, 1953)
34. Snowpiercer (South Korea, 2013)
35. The Wind Rises (Japan, 2013)
36. Suicide Club (Japan, 2001)
37. Why Don't You Play in Hell? (Japan, 2013)
38. Guilty of Romance (Japan, 2011)
39. Cold Fish (Japan, 2010)
40. 2046 (Hong Kong, 2004)
41. The World of Kanako (Japan, 2014)
42. Mother (South Korea, 2009)
43. Onibaba (Japan, 1964)
44. The Chaser (South Korea, 2008)
45. Noriko's Dinner Table (Japan, 2005)
46. Ocean Heaven (China, 2010)
47. Okja (South Korea, 2017)
48. A Taxi Driver (South Korea, 2017)
49. The Twilight Samurai (Japan, 2002)
50. Empire of Passion (Japan, 1978)

[Jasonic]

1. Spirited Away (2001)
2. Memories of Murder (2003)
3. Red Cliff (2008/2009)
4. Princess Mononoke (1997)
5. Battle Royale (2000)
6. Seven Samurai (1954)
7. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
8. A Bittersweet Life (2005)
9. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
10. Wolf Children (2012)
11. New World (2013)
12. Castle in the Sky (1986)
13. Only Yesterday (1991)
14. Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
15. Ran (1985)
16. Sunny (2011)
17. Kiki's Delivery Service
18. The Wailing (2016)
19. Your Name. (2016)
20. The Man From Nowhere (2010)
21. Kikujiro (1999)
22. Harakiri (1962)
23. Snowpiercer (2013)
24. A Separation (2011)
25. Porco Rosso (1992)
26. My Sassy Girl (2001)
27. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
28. The Wind Rises (2013)
30. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
29. Castaway On the Moon (2009)
31. The Handmaiden (2016)
32. I Saw the Devil (2010)
33. 13 Assassins
34. Paprika (2006)
35. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
36. Ip Man (2008)
37. Kagemusha (1980)
38. Millennium Actress (2001)
39. High and Low (1963)
40. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

There are many other films I love, but I'll keep it to 40.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Hucksta G

Cheers for that, I mistakenly and ignorantly thought it was Russian haha

Heh. No problem.

I wish I could see some more Romanian New Wave films, if this is any indication. I need to find a way and get off my lazy butt.

[Hucksta G]

Originally Posted by AaronJ

Heh. No problem.

I wish I could see some more Romanian New Wave films, if this is any indication. I need to find a way and get off my lazy butt.

Beyond the Hills is a good one by the same director

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Hucksta G

Beyond the Hills is a good one by the same director

Thanks. I will try and find it.

[TajSamKojiJesam]

1) Eros + Massacre (1969)
2) Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)
3) Woman in the Dunes (1964)
4) Double Suicide (1969)
5) Affair in the Snow (1968)
6) Pandemonium (1971)
7) Heroic Purgatory (1970)
8) Intentions of Murder (1964)
9) House (1977)
10) Harakiri (1962)
11) Go Go Second Time Virgin (1969)
12) The Face of Another (1966)
13) This Transient Life (1970)
14) The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
15) Onibaba (1964)
16) The Warped Ones (1960)
17) Branded to Kill (1967)
18) The Affair (1967)
19) The Naked Island (1960)
20) In the Mood for Love (2000)
21) Pigs and Battleships (1960)
22) Violence at Noon (1966)
23) The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966)
24) Coup d'Etat (1973)
25) Pale Flower (1964)
26) Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971)
27) Woman of the Lake (1966)
28) Himiko (1974)
29) Noisy Requiem (1988)
30) When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
31) Kuroneko (1967)
32) A Woman's Case (1970)
33) Sonatine (1993)
34) Patriotism (1966)
35) Avetik (1992)
36) Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
37) Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
38) Silence Has No Wings (1966)
39) Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
40) Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
41) Vengeance is Mine (1979)
42) Samurai Rebellion (1967)
43) School of the Holy Beast (1974)
44) Angel's Egg (1985)
45) Blind Beast (1969)
46) Fireworks (1997)
47) Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973)
48) Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971)
49) The Sword of Doom (1966)
50) Eureka (2000)

[Mothravka]

Originally Posted by Hucksta G

1. Silence

Which one? Shinoda's film is surely Japanese, but if it's Silence (2016) by Scorsese, that's pretty much on the border. It's more American than anything else, especially when it comes to the production.

Originally Posted by Hucksta G

9. Lilya 4ever
11. Slumdog Millionaire
13. The Last Samurai

27. Incendies
31. Only God Forgives

36. Life of Pi


45. Babel

50. The Russian Woodpecker

Runners Up in Case anything doesn’t count
51. Gandhi
52. Lion

Lilja 4-ever (2002) is a Swedish/Danish production by a Swedish director.

Slumdog Millionaire (2008) is mainly a British film, France and USA are listed as production countries too.

The Last Samurai (2003) is like Scorsese's film, mostly and mainly American. All the production companies involved are American. I think Japan is listed on IMDb just because it was shot there.

Incendies (2010) is a Canadian film. I think France is a bit involved too.

Only God Forgives (2013) is a Danish/French production (with Sweden and USA also listed on IMDb).

Life of Pi (2012) would mostly count as an American film with some British, Canadian and Taiwanese funding/production. But there's also not really any significance in the film to do with Taiwan.

Babel (2006) is a French/American/Mexican production.

The Russian Woodpecker (2015) is a British/American/Ukranian film, but I don't think we count Ukraine as Asia, especially when it doesn't usually happen elsewhere.

Gandhi (1982) is maybe more British than Indian, but counting it as an Asian production is maybe debatable.

Lion (2016) is mainly an Australian film with some British and American funding, it seems.

So yeah, I would say that Silence (2016), The Last Samurai (2003) and Life of Pi (2012) are absolutely more American than Asian and really stretching the definition. Gandhi (1982) is a bit harder, but I wouldn't count them in a poll like this. Maybe some other people have some input?

The others are clearly not Asian films.

[Alister_M]

Yeah, Snowpiercer would be on my list if it qualified, but it doesn't. It's a South Korean/USA/Czech/French co-production, filmed in the Czech Republic and Austria.

[ZeTi]

#1 Exiled - 2006 - Johnnie To
#2 Sunny - 2011 - Hyeong-Cheol Kang
#3 A Better Tomorrow - 1986 - John Woo
#4 Harakiri - 1962 - Masaki Kobayashi
#5 A Bittersweet Life - 2005 - Kim Jee-Woon
#6 Violent Cop - 1989 - Takeshi Kitano
#7 Goyokin - 1969 - Hideo Gosha
#8 Sympathy for the Underdog - 1971 - Kinji Fukasaku
#9 Bullet for Hire - 1991 - Chun Man Yuen
#10 Women in Dunes - 1964 - Hiroshi Teshigahara

to be continued ...

[Mothravka]

Originally Posted by Trollhunter

30. Mother

I think it would be good to specify which film you mean. There's several Asian films that use that as their English title. The one by Naruse? The Joon-ho film? Hatami's film? Shindô's film? Or any other?

Originally Posted by Hucksta G

39. Timbuktu

I just saw that I forgot to mention that one in my previous post to you. It's a French-Mauritanian film. France is in Europe and Mauritania is in Northwestern Africa, so the film has nothing to do with Asia at all.

[Gerby]

01. Sansho The Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
02. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, 1962)
03. High & Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
04. Woman In The Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
05. The Life Of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952)
06. Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa, 1975)
07. Time (Kim Ki-Duk, 2006)
08. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
09. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
10. The Crazy Family (Sogo Ishii, 1984)

11. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
12. Shura (Toshio Matsumoto, 1971)
13. Come & See (Elem Klimov, 1985)
14. Raise The Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, 2001)
15. Once Upon A Time In China II (Tsui Hark, 1992)
16. A Seperation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
17. The Goddess (Wu Yonggang, 1934)
18. The Man Who Stole The Sun (Kazuhiko Hasegawa, 1979)
19. Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (Lau Kar-leung, 1984)
20. Project A (Jackie Chan, 1983)

21. About Elly (Asghar Farhadi, 2009)
22. Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
23. The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa, 1956)
24. A Colt Is My Passport (Takashi Nomura, 1967)
25. Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
26. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
27. Samurai Assassin (Kihachi Okamoto, 1965)
28. Watari, Ninja Boy (Sadao Funatoko, 1966)
29. Grave Of The Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988)
30. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)

31. Departures (Yōjirō Takita, 2009)
32. Memories Of Murder (Bong Joon-Ho, 2003)
33. The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957)
34. The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003)
35. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Lau Kar-leung, 1978)
36. Goyokin (Hideo Gosha, 1969)
37. Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom (Norifumi Suzuki, 1973)
38. Final Score (Arizal, 1986)
39. Deewaar (Yash Chopra, 1975)
40. Manila In The Claws Of Light (Lino Brocka, 1975)

41. In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)
42. Shanghai Blues (Tsui Hark, 1984)
43. Yol (Yilmaz Güney, Şerif Gören, 1982)
44. Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1955)
45. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
46. Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (Yukio Noda, 1974)
47. Kuroneko (Kaneto Shindo, 1968)
48. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (Kim Ki-Duk, 2003)
49. Uzak (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002)
50. Children Of Heaven (Majid Majidi, 1997)

[Mrdamron]

1. Seven Samurai
2. Yojimbo
3. The Killer
4. Kung Fu Hustle
5. Infernal Affairs
6. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
7. Shaolin Soccer
8. Throne of Blood
9. Enter the Dragon
10. Hard Boiled
11. Samurai I
12. Chunking Express
13. Rashomon
14. Police Story
15. Sanjuro
16. A Better Tomorrow
17. Police Story 2
18. Stray Dog
19. Ran
20. God of Cookery
21. Drunken Master
22. City on Fire
23. Running Out of Time
24. Samurai Fiction
25. Lady Snowblood
26. King of Comedy (S. Chow)
27. 2046
28. A Hero Never Dies
29. God of Gamblers
30. Lost in Time
31. All About Ah Long
32. The Street Fighter
33. Battle Royale
34. Raise the Red Lantern
35. Farewell My Concubine
36. Drunken Angel
37. Godzilla/Gojira
38. A Bittersweet Life
39. Yi Yi
40. Fireworks
41. Ong Bak
42. Fight Back to School
43. Once a Thief (J. Woo)
44. Justice, My Foot!
45. Election
46. Bullet in the Head
47. One Nite in Mongkok
48. In The Mood for Love
49. Shogun's Samurai
50. High and Low

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Gerby

37. Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom (Norifumi Suzuki, 1973)

Just because of the title, I had to go look this up. This sounds absolutely BONKERS!

[Gerby]

Originally Posted by AaronJ

Just because of the title, I had to go look this up. This sounds absolutely BONKERS!

And the film actually does live up to the title!

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Gerby

And the film actually does live up to the title!

Oh man. Some day I'll have to track this down.

[TajSamKojiJesam]

It's a very fun movie, but I think it's only the third best film by Norifumi Suzuki. I'd say School of the Holy Beast (1974) and Sex and Fury (1973) are his best and most outrageous works. He really went all out in these two.

I just remembered I have an an album of Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom (NSFW). I really want to watch another Suzuki movie now.

[dallywhitty]

01. Hausu
02. Sansho Dayu
03. Battle Royale
04. Akira
05. Ran
06. Ugetsu Monogatari
07. Gion Bayashi
08. Audition
09. Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
10. Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - The Advent
11. Onibaba
12. Uwasa no Onna
13. Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King
14. The Big Boss
15. Fist of Fury
16. A Tale of Two Sisters
17. Urotsukidoji II: Legend of the Demon Womb
18. The Host
19. Perfect Blue
20. Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend

[Mothravka]

1. Eros + Massacre (1969, Yoshishige Yoshida)
2. The Face of Another (1966, Hiroshi Teshigahara)
3. Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974, Shûji Terayama)
4. Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky)
5. Woman in the Dunes (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara)
6. An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Yasujirô Ozu)
7. The Music Room (1958, Satyajit Ray)
8. The Mirror (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky)
9. Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky)
10. Uski Roti (1970, Mani Kaul)
11. Close-Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)
12. Silence Has No Wings (1966, Kazuo Kuroki)
13. Devi (1960, Satyajit Ray)
14. A Geisha (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)
15. A Woman's Case (1969, Jacques Katmor)
16. Letters from a Dead Man (1986, Konstantin Lopushansky)
17. Pandemonium (1971, Toshio Matsumoto)
18. Double Suicide (1969, Masahiro Shinoda)
19. Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004, Lav Diaz)
20. Keisatsukan (1933, Tomu Uchida)
21. Shinjuku Mad (1970, Kôji Wakamatsu)
22. Still Life (1974, Sohrab Shahid Saless)
23. The Color of Pomegranates (1969, Sergei Parajanov)
24. Yearning (1964, Mikio Naruse)
25. This Transient Life (1970, Akio Jissôji)
26. The Assassination of Ryoma (1974, Kazuo Kuroki)
27. Noisy Requiem (1988, Yoshihiko Matsui)
28. Avetik (1992, Don Askarian)
29. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2002, Wang Bing)
30. The River (1997, Tsai Ming-liang)
31. Robinson's Garden (1987, Masashi Yamamoto)
32. Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky)
33. Mother and Son (1997, Aleksandr Sokurov)
34. Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989, Bae Yong-Kyun)
35. Mati Manas (1985, Mani Kaul)
36. Night and Day (2008, Hong Sang-soo)
37. A Moment of Innocence (1996, Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
38. Days of Eclipse (1988, Aleksandr Sokurov)
39. Ecstasy of the Angels (1972, Kôji Wakamatsu)
40. Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971, Shûji Terayama)
41. Coup d'Etat (1973, Yoshishige Yoshida)
42. The Long Darkness (1972, Kei Kumai)
43. Himiko (1974, Masahiro Shinoda)
44. A Simple Event (1974, Sohrab Shahid Saless)
45. Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)
46. Harakiri (1962, Masaki Kobayashi)
47. The Naked Island (1960, Kaneto Shindô)
48. Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971, Noriaki Tsuchimoto)
49. Heart, Beating in the Dark (1982, Shunichi Nagasaki)
50. Intentions of Murder (1964, Shôhei Imamura)

I didn't really bother to rank the latter part of the films, especially since a lot of them will receive the same amount of points anyway.

27 from Japan, 8 from the Soviet Union, 4 from India, 4 from Iran, 2 from South Korea, 1 from the Philippines, 1 from Israel, 1 from China, 1 from Taiwan and 1 from Armenia.

[TajSamKojiJesam]

Originally Posted by Mothravka

15. A Woman's Case (1969, Jacques Katmor)
28. Avetik (1992, Don Askarian)

Forgot about these two. Excellent films, but for some reason I didn't think of Israel and Armenia.

I didn't include any Russian films, even though it's technically an Asian country. It just feels strange to me to classify it as such.

[MechaGodzilla]

Originally Posted by TajSamKojiJesam

Forgot about these two. Excellent films, but for some reason I didn't think of Israel and Armenia.

I didn't include any Russian films, even though it's technically an Asian country. It just feels strange to me to classify it as such.

I know what you mean, I think of Russia as being part of Eastern Europe first and foremost.