Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
JSA: Joint Security Area (2000)
- Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Young-ae Lee - A Korean military thriller of high repute that opens with a double–killing on the bitterly–tense border between North and South and…
Tears of the Black Tiger (Fah Talai Jone) (2000)
- Dir. Wisit Sasanatieng
- A blast of wild inspiration from the New Thai Cinema, this restages a Hollywood Western within a luridly kitschy setting using back–projection,…
Time and Tide (2000)- Dir. Tsui Hark
Feat. Nicholas Tse, Wu Bai - Healthy measures of hard–boiled alienation and gyroscopic fire–fights ignite this Hong Kong kick–butt–fest that somersaults…
Bangkok Dangerous (1999)- Dir. Danny Pang, Oxide Pang
Feat. Pawalit Mongkolpisit, Premsinee Ratanasopha, Patharawarin Timkul - Frenetic, violent gangland tale set in the throbbing Thai capital, about a deaf–mute hitman isolated by his affliction and his profession, and…
Dead or Alive (Hanzaisha) (1999)- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Ren Osugi - A jaw–dropping, wickedly amoral revenge thriller from the dir. of AUDITION, who blows the dust (and the roof) off gangster movie cliches and…
Emperor and the Assassin, The (Jing Ke Ci Qin Wang) (1999)- Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Gong Li, Zhang Fenyi - Vast, gilded historical spectacle set in the 3rd Century BC, centred on China's legendary first Qin emperor's struggle to consolidate a unified…
Hero (A Man Called Hero) (1999)- Dir. Wai Keung Lau
Feat. Ekin Cheng, Shu Qi, Kristy Yang - A typically offbeat HK amalgam of historical saga, martial arts action and CGI special effects. Set in the first half of the 20th century, this…
Nowhere to Hide (1999)- Dir. Lee Myung-Se
Feat. Park Joong-Hoon, Ahn Sung-Ki - An irreverent pastiche of seemingly every violent cop flick ever made, this hysterical, hyper–kinetic Korean action movie throws up every…
Running Out of Time (1999)- Dir. Johnnie To
Feat. Andy Lau, Lau Ching-wan - A crackingly–paced, plot–bending Yin–Yang heist drama, with terminally–ill master jewel thief Andy Lau playing against the…
Bullet Ballet (1998)- Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
Feat. Shinya Tsukamoto, Hisashi Igawa - After his fiancee commits suicide, a young man tries to obtain a gun so that he can do the same, and in the process becomes embroiled in warfare…
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