Last seen ASIAN movie

[Angra]

Originally Posted by horcrux2007

I haven't seen the original; I've only seen the god awful remake.

Brrrr...

[RadioactiveCinemaCult]

Originally Posted by Angra

My Miike favorite is One Missed Call. Probably his most mainstream movie to date.

I remember having seeing it too. All I can come up with was, there was this phone ringtone, dead schoolgirls, pictures on the phone and in the end, corpse.
Ichi The Killer is not mainstream? Well, maybe not.
(Haven't seen GOZU [2003] yet. Or Dead or Alive: Trilogy. )

Originally Posted by horcrux2007

I haven't seen the original; I've only seen the god awful remake.

Oh boy. I only have heard about the remake and how bad it is. (What to expect?)

[roshiq]

Kuntilanak 2 aka The Chanting 2 (2007)

Yup...not as good or effectively scary like the first one but this is a decent sequel at least. Sad, there's no English subtitle available for the 3rd part on youtube or any torrent sites yet.

>>: B

[horcrux2007]

I was wondering if anyone has seen "A Tale of Two Sisters". Is it anything worth watching?

[Angra]

Originally Posted by horcrux2007

I was wondering if anyone has seen "A Tale of Two Sisters". Is it anything worth watching?

It's one of the best asian ghost movies. In my asian top 3.

[roshiq]

Originally Posted by Angra

It's one of the best asian ghost movies. In my asian top 3.

Ditto!

[roshiq]

Ghost Of Oiwa (1961)



Another classic film adaptation of the popular Japanese ghost story Yotsuya Kaidan. Nobuo Nakagawa's 1959 color version was more into horror & creepy but this is more of a drama than a horror flick. Still a good watch indeed.

>>: B+

[ChronoGrl]

Originally Posted by RadioactiveCinemaCult

Visitor Q [ビジターＱ] (2001)
[*Bijitâ Q]

Takashi Miike, he seems to give very mixed opinions and messages in his films... But, this was something, that I was kind of glad to witness. It was dark comedy, social commentary and it had very crooked plot.
About father who tries to make a documentary about violence and corruption of youth, but his family is not much better. We meet stranger, who just hooks up with family and is pretty okay for what is happening inside of closed doors. Includes whole bunch of taboos.
Recommended! (The beginning seems little slow, but it does not really matter, what will happen afterwards).
(Japanese)

I definitely list this as one of the Most Disturbing movies I've ever seen (along with Martyrs and Blue Velvet) - What I found really interesting about this movie is that it strives specifically to unnerve you in different ways -

You have psycho-sexual disturbing content, starting with the incest scene and you are confronted with other disturbing concepts, including violence and the violent scenes were played with humor, using violence to cut the intensity - Almost as though Miike was saying, "I'm going to create something so disturbing that THESE VIOLENCE SCENES will give you relief" If I recall. It's been a while and I'm not sure I need to see it again. Not that I think it's a bad movie; I just don't know if I need to feel icky like that again.

I used to have a thing for Miike -

• Audition is probably my favorite; that one I could watch again (though I did think that it dragged at the start)
• Gozu, at the time, I LOVED, but I remember very little of it (outside of it being very Lynch-like)
• Ichi the Killer I don't remember much of aside of the nipple-slicing - I think that what surprised me was that the movie focused on a character that I wasn't expecting to be the focus (that sentence probably didn't make sense...)
• One Missed Call wasn't bad, though if I recall it dragged a bit (and I thought that movies like Ringu and Ju-On did it better)
• The Happiness of the Katakuris - Er, I didn't really care for that one, but that could have been that I had really high expectations...
• I remember Zebraman being just OK
• And I think that I really liked The Great Yokai War
• His contribution to 3... Extremes is a brilliant and twisted horror short
• And I loved his Masters of Horror, "Imprint," though it shouldn't have been in English (the translation was bizarre)

Originally Posted by horcrux2007

I was wondering if anyone has seen "A Tale of Two Sisters". Is it anything worth watching?

The ending was a bit of a let down for me but otherwise I found it to be really genuinely creepy.

[anglewitch]

I watched the original Godzilla. I tell you what I think I just wasted a hour of my life.

[neverending]

Originally Posted by anglewitch

I watched the original Godzilla. I tell you what I think I just wasted a hour of my life.

I'll tell you what I think:

Godzilla is one of the most important horror films of the 50s, and is a brilliant piece of cinema.