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

[Grethiwha]

Originally Posted by Mothravka

I disagree. Some scenes are shot in Japan, which I don't think makes it Asian. The majority of the film seems to be shot in New Zealand, that's why it is listed as a country too. It was shot in USA also. Wikipedia lists only USA as a country to take an interesting example.

But the director is American, the producers are American and all of the production companies are American. The same with the crew working behind the camera etc. And it was distributed by Warner Bros. I even think a lot of the awards it got were those that they only give out to American films. As I said, it's more American than Asian.

I agree that it's definitely more American than Asian.

But I also agree with Al, that the best way to do this, is, if an Asian country – basically if it's listed on imdb – then it qualifies, and leave it up to the individual voters to decide whether to include it.

I haven't investigated it, but I assume that, since imdb lists Japan as a country (which it doesn't do, for, say, Silence), that Japan had some small involvement in the production, beyond it just being filmed there. The fact it also features a majority Japanese cast, is set primarily in Japan and features a lot of spoken Japanese might have led me to include it if there weren't, easily, 50 Asian films I liked more.

The American Godzilla films, I probably would have chosen not to include, even if I did love them more than some of the films on my list. Japan is listed on imdb, but probably only because Toho licensed out the IP, or whatever, which isn't reason enough in my mind to consider them sufficiently Asian. But, I wouldn't begrudge others from listing them, if they really wanted to, for the sake of having a single, unbiased authority (however faulty) on what can be included.

Originally Posted by LegacyCosts

Wouldn't it be easier if you just went with the nationality of the filmmaker?

Then Brokeback Mountain would count as an Asian film, and The Raid wouldn't...