Asian movies

**ajithfederer** · 24th September 2010, 01:20 AM

Revisiting Windstruck Randomly

Jun Ji Hyun

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Welcome to Dongmakgol - Another fine film. Recommended to like minded viewers.

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**AravindMano** · 11th October 2010, 10:46 AM

Tokyo Sonata. Started well with a simple premise, progressed expectedly, followed up with a bizarre detour and quite a rewarding end.

**ajithfederer** · 3rd January 2011, 03:41 AM

The Good, the Bad, the Weird

Crazy ass Korean Western film. Good Entertainment.

**Vivasaayi** · 24th January 2011, 02:33 PM

Good bad and the weird

This guy Ji-woon Kim has some style...all his movies that I have watched are aesthetically too good. As the original, the funny weird charecter stole the show when compared to the other two guys..

We get to hear the famous kill bill song "please dont let me be misunderstood" in one of the important sequence...even the thought of Tarantino remaking the original leone - eastwood classic is mouth watering....tarantino must make a western..pure western..

**ajithfederer** · 25th January 2011, 01:18 AM

Vicky

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**kid-glove** · 15th February 2011, 07:06 PM

Speaking of Kim. "I Saw the Devil" is another #WIN (4th one in a row!) Following psychological horror, existential mob drama, & kimichi-western, Kim takes on serial killer/revenge flick in mold of Heat/FaceOff/The Dark Knight! Like all his previous films, it's the surface that he's most interested in. He scratches it, even if barely, for the ridges (Futility of revenge, disparity of other forms of violence in face of rape, and so on.) to be made felt. But it's the immediacy of the faceoff, & carnal violence that one finds gripping. It feels weak when it explores adultery that borders on statutory rape. But it also seems like Kim doesn't want our 'consent'. He takes the genre to unknown territory (breaks the convention like all his previous films without seeming like empty gimmicks!), and for the first time (at least to me), unfolds with a seamless narrative (the plot-points seem less wrinkled). The most fascinating aspect of Kim is mood control (take all the bouts of silence between the explosive action setpieces of TGTB&TW). If it's Leone, Melville, or the Hongkong masters in his previous films, with ISTD he tries to marry Fincher to Cronenberg by the way of Mann & Nolan. This is a schizophrenic mix, but Kim pulls it off.

All said, a much more worthwhile experience (than films nominated for Oscar this year). Contains my favorite opening sequence of the year. And contains my fav. performances of 2010. Oldboy's Choi min-sik returns (if Dae-su kicked off the early part of 2000's with one of the rawest performances of all time, Kyung-Chul in flesh and blood seems to be a concoction of Stuntman Mike & Max Cady with Ledger thrown in for bouts of irreverence & vanity! But it all seems organic like Min-Sik could only be!) Mr.Lee lives up to the 'Korean Delon' tag bestowed on him post-Bittersweet Life.

**kid-glove** · 18th February 2011, 02:20 PM

Thanks to Grouch, I got the English/Holly equivalent of Choi min-sik - Gary Oldman !

**groucho070** · 18th February 2011, 02:39 PM

Eh, Oh. Remember reading about him in this entry in Cracked.com

**kid-glove** · 18th February 2011, 02:47 PM

Ah, spot the odd Carrey out. Ha ha. Good list that, De niro, DDL, C-M-S, and even Bale. One can't truly know the intricacies of their 'methodical' approach, but I suppose the idea is to be fully transformed at end of it. Which they all do, for my money..