The Single GREATEST Eastern Movie of all time

[NewJeffCT]

Poll question: The Single GREATEST Eastern Movie of all time

Sorry, I don't really know any Bollywood flicks, but I did my best.

[Tikki]

1. "Shall We Dance?"....the excellent Japanese film from 1996...

not that American cinema rip-off, lame, staring the bimbo of the day
attempt to remake a really good movie.



Tikki

[GreenTea]

2. What's Up Tiger Lily

[Deja Q]

9. Well, I'll get you the flashlight!

:rofl:

What's Up, Tiger Lily?

[Solon]

3. Zatôichi...

Was a pretty good movie. Oh, either that or "The Audition". :)

[kentauros]

5. Which of the Zatoichi movies? ;)

There were quite a few of them. "The Blind Swordsman" was great in all of them, though :)

[Solon]

11. Ah shit, all of them, I think I've seen two...

The Blind Swordsman kicks ass in all of them though. :)

[The Magistrate]

33. Those Are Excellent Entertainments, Sir

[ceile]

4. Audition

:scared:

[porphyrian]

32. I'll have to agree with you there.

Miike is one twisted motherfucker, and I love it.

[lost-in-nj]

6. Raise the Red Lantern

http://reelviews.net/movies/r/raise.html


haunting


lost

[qwertyMike]

7. Ran

Actually it's WEST of here - not east

[kentauros]

8. I love Seven Samurai, but

I really enjoyed The Hidden Fortress :D

You also need Yojimbo on that poll :)

[Patsy Stone]

26. Yojimbo rocked!!

[CGowen]

10. Looks like I have to watch Seven Samurai, only watched Kagemusha and Ran. n/t

[Stuart G]

12. What about ...Princess Mononoke..? nt.

[sakabatou]

13. Or other great anime films?

[NewJeffCT]

17. good choice

forgot about that one

[bigwillq]

14. Crouching Tiger

:bounce:

[IndianaJones]

15. Shogun Assassin. nt.

[MrCoffee]

16. The Killer

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

18. Ikiru

I believe it means "existence" in Japanese. I think it's Kurosawa's best film. I saw it in 1968 on French TV while I was spending a year over there. I found it extremely moving.

[Doc_Technical]

19. Red Sorghum

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093206/

[Forkboy]

20. Duh....

This and Seven Samurai were both made by Toho at the same time in '54, and both finished in the top 10 for the year and helped keep the company alive. Ishiro Honda, the director of Godzilla, learned from Kurosawa in previous movies before Seven Samurai.

[NewJeffCT]

28. how could I have forgotten that one?

good pick, though

[jpgray]

21. Rashomon, insofar as you don't need a Y chromosome to like it

:D

[AngryAmish]

22. Battleship Potemkin

[Stuart G]

24. I saw this one for the first time this summer...with full orchestra..

If you haven't seen it, it is worth the time. Especially if a local film club is reviving it on a big screen. Remember when you do that a lot of those shots, and editing had never been done befor

..Angry Amish.........great choice....

[grasswire]

23. Dersu Uzala (The Hunter)

Quite a remarkable film from Akiro Kurisawa.

Also, a B&W obscure Japanese film called "Woman of the Dunes" -- supposedly erotic, although I was more interested with the story than the alleged eroticism.

[Patsy Stone]

25. Tampopo

From Wiki:

Tampopo begins when a pair of truck drivers, an experienced one named Goro and a young one named Gun (played by Tsutomu Yamazaki and Ken Watanabe respectively), happen onto a decrepit roadside fast food stop selling ramen noodles. The business is not doing too well, and after getting involved in a fight, the heroes decide to help the young owner, Tampopo ("Dandelion", played by Nobuko Miyamoto), turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle soup making".

The main narrative is interspersed with stories involving consumables on several levels. The primary subplot involves a white-suited yakuza gangster (Koji Yakusho) and his mistress (Fukumi Kuroda), who find eyebrow-raising new ways to use food. Other satirical vignettes involve an office intern who upstages his senior colleagues by ordering in fluent French at a gourmet restaurant, a housewife who rises from her deathbed to cook one last meal for her family, and a women's etiquette class learning how to eat spaghetti in the gaijin way.

Nothing against the classics, but this is my favorite.

[Patsy Stone]

27. Also great: Wing Chun with Michelle Yeoh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Chun_%28film%29

[tigereye]

29. one of my favorites, too

:hi:

I always recommend this film to folks, and a Taxing Woman is also a lot of fun.

[Fire Walk With Me]

30. I voted for Seven Samurai

but recently saw a Korean film in the vein of "Crouching Tiger..." that easily outdid "Crouching Tiger..."

My sister had it on loan from a friend, and none of us know the actual title... :(

[yellowdogintexas]

31. From this list, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, but "Spirited Away" needs to

be there. Really.

[NewJeffCT]

35. I'm limited to 10 choices in the poll

so, couldn't decide which ones of many

[hoozyorsugadaddy]

34. I picked Ran