Zatoichi (2003) (Japanese)
Review: (Taken from IMDB)
The story of the blind swordsman Zatoichi should be well known to most aficionados of Japanese cinema. I was thrilled when
i heard that Takeshi Kitano (of all people) would be making a re-make of the classic series. And i was not disappointed.
The blind masseur/swordsman Zatoichi stumbles upon a lone widow when he comes walking in the countryside. He helps her carry a basket and she tells him of her problems while he is invited to stay with her. The local town is plagued by a war between different criminal factions and the protection rates are constantly going up. Soon two geishas also arrive in town with their own agenda, linked to one of the warring gangs.
Zatoichi is a beautiful film in my opinion. Everything from photography and scenery to music is exceptionally well tuned to the mood of the film. Also the action sequences are very well made, the fencing well choreographed and nicely shot. What distracted me somewhat though is the use of liquid animation for the blood. There is almost no usual fake blood in this movie, rather it’s liquid animation-blood spraying when people are stabbed. This looks odd, but it’s still a minor distraction.
Zatoichi feels both like a nice tribute to 60′s and 70′s samurai-films as well as a fresh take on the genre. Both modern and classic, which is one of the finest compliments i feel you can give a movie like this one. I enjoyed it very much and i rate it 7/10.
Year Released: 2003
Directed By: Takeshi Kitano
Writers:Takeshi Kitano (screenplay)
Kan Shimozawa (novels)
Genre: Action / Drama / Crime
Running Time: 116inutes
Also Known As:Takeshi Kitano’s Zatoichi (International: English title) (informal title)
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (USA)
Zatoichi (International: English title)
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English hardsubbed.
IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363226/
(7.6 rating out of 10!)
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Diary of June aka Bystanders (Korean) 2005
Year:2005
Director:Im Kyung-Soo
Writer:Im Kyung-Soo
Genre:Mystery, Thriller
Cast:Kim Yun-jin, Eric Moon, Shin Eun-Kyung
Country:South Korea
Language:Korean
Subtitles:English
Runtime:105 mins
IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475557/
Synopsis:
Detectives Chu Ja-young (Shin Eun-Kyung) and Kim Dong-wook (Eric Moon) are investigating a string of murders involving local high school students. Scraps of a diary are found with each victim, leading the detectives to suspect the writer of the diary, a middle-school student who’s suffered serious bullying. Each murder happens just as described in the so-called ‘June diary’, but the student is already dead…
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Blood Rain (Korean) 2005
Plot
Director Kim Dae-seung brings us a shocking historical thriller set in 19th century Korea. Blood Rain tells the story of a slew of grisly murders plaguing a small, fairly isolated island village. However, it’s not just the mounting death toll that’s causing residents to worry, but the sadistic, methodical way in which the victims were killed. With the killer still on the loose, the government sends in special investigator Wong Gyu (Cha Seung-won) to crack the case. While conducting his dogged investigation, he soon uncovers a myriad of hidden secrets, tracing the murders back to an incident that occurred some seven years earlier. The previous owner of the village’s paper mill was executed as a Christian. Does that mean that the murdered man’s spirit has come back to seek bloody retribution? The real truth, Wong Gyu learns, may be far more terrifying?
Year:2004
Director:Kim Dae-seung
Writers:Kim Seong-jae,Lee Won-jae
Genre:Mystery, Thriller
Cast:Cha Seung-won,Park Yong-woo,Ji Seong,Oh Hyeon-kyeong,Choi Ji-na,
Country:South Korea
Language:Korean
Subtitles:English
Runtime:119 mins
IMDb link:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462684/
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Eko Eko Azarak: Birth of the Wizard (1996) (Japanese)
Kimika Yoshino returns in this prequel to ‘Wizard of Darkness’ to play Misa Kuroi before she was famous, or at least before she realized she was a witch. ‘Birth of the Wizard’ begins in Meiji-era Japan, in a village of former witches and wizards. I say former, because someone seems to have slaughtered them. Skip to the present day, and an archaeologist discovers a mummy from the village. Blissfully unaware that the mummy is, in fact, possessed by an evil spirit (naturally), he runs off, leaving his assistant
alone. The mummy comes to life, kills her, and the evil spirit takes over her body. This evil spirit is now searching for Misa, who is protected by Kyle Reese, It is Misa’s destiny to defeat this evil spirit, but she needs Saiga’s help to do it.
Release Date:1996
Director: Shimako Sato
Writers:Shinichi Koga
Shimako Sato
Genre: Horror
Cast: Kimika Yoshino, Wataru Shihodo, Chieko Shiratori, Akira Otani, Eisei Amamoto
Runtime: 83 min
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles:English subs.
IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116178/
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Sword in the Moon (2003) (Korean)
This grand-scale martial arts fairy tale takes place in Korea in the 17th century. Two brothers work together as guards of their country’s most powerful leaders. But one day the brothers become accidentally separated. When one starts working for the other side, he is instructed to kill his own brother, who still works as a guard for the Korean government
Release Date:2003
Directed:Ui-seok Kim
Genre:Action / Drama / Adventure
Cast:Choi Min-su, Jo Jae-hyeon,Kim Bo-gyeong
Runtime:100 min
Also Known As:Cheongpung myeongwol
Country:South Korea
Language:Korean
Subtitles:Eng Subs
IMDb link:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0370402/
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Happy Birthday (Hong Kong) 2007
Review from IMDb;
It’s a long heard story that the first woman Eve are made of a rib of the first man Adam so that the matches of ribs and Adams are going on and on for centuries outside Eden on earth. Happiness is almost guaranteed if finding the right rib; and the hell of encounters and breakups would keep haunting over if wrong matches are made. People come and go. Some do stay for a while but will leave anyway in the end, except the one and only individual.
However, will happiness finally arrive if you are lucky enough to meet your right rib or Adam? Take Xiao Mi and Xiao Nan in the movie Happy Birthday as an example. We’re not suppose to blame Xiao Mi for missing her really Mr. Right. She did nothing wrong. She was just not sure, like you, like me, like everyone of the world. True love requires trust, but what if trust turns out to be a mistake. It’s an eternal regret that Xiao Mi lost Xiao Nan forever. She’d better be with him in all his limited journey of life and as confident as Xiao Nan that she’s the rib of his. But…but…but what if he’s wrong? What if they spent some time together and then quarrels came and ended up in a permanent breakup? The king in Cinderella story said when true love came, you’d know it immediately even when you touched her hand for the very first time. Nothing stops true love. Things always come this way in fairy tales. How excellent the life will be if reality comes also this way.
It is not difficult to find a pair of arms for temporary consolation. But it is extremely a tough job to find a warm hand, leading you to his or her heart and making you stay there for now and for good. Uncertainty keeps entangling and torturing Only one thing is affirmed. That is when the rib breaks, you do hurt.
Directed: Jingle Ma
Genre: Romance
Cast: Louis Koo, Rene Liu, Bowie Tsang, Lawrence Chou.
Runtime:
Also Known As: Sun yat fai lok
Country: China / Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English/Chinese subs.
IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923923/
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