The Asian Film Thread

Everyone should check out 3-Iron. It's an indie Korean film directed by Ki-duk Kim, who does these great slow moving and mellow films that are just really powerful, his films are a total experience in itself.

It's hard to describe the plot. Basically a jobless college graduate breaks into people's houses to live for a couple days while they're on vacation. He breaks into one house to find a housewife there that's being abused by her husband so they run away together. Stuff (but not hilarity) ensues.

Also check out Afterlife, a Japanese film by the guy who did Nobody Knows. It's an interpretation of what the afterlife (natch) is, in which you have to pick one memory from your entire life and you relive that one moment over and over for all eternity, forgetting everything else.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Lady Miyomi

I saw Moon Child about three weeks ago and even though it was longer than I thought it should've been, Gackt and Hyde did a pretty good job acting. However, having Hyde as a vampire was a little weird. I think Gackt did a good job of portraying a gangsta. Overall, the movie was good, even in the end.

Oh god, I'm sorry but are you fucking insane? That movie was horrid. Horrid. A blatant rip off of everything Anne Rice, no not because of the vampires but because they stole pratically every idea and scene from her books (the dancing with the corpse? Give me a break). It made me cry for all the wrong reasons and their acting skills were awful. If there was an Japanese equalivent of a Razzie, they'd take every one.

Gackt is a pretty sexy bastard though. It just bummed me out because they could have done a pretty decent film but I guess Gackt's writing is really not up to snuff. As if any other outcome would have been true.

There's nowhere I can't reach.