Recently viewed Asian movies, some with pretty

[keiko_kirin]

I watch too damn many Asian movies, this is true. It's an addiction! Some recent ones (all are subtitled except for the first):

Soredemo boku wa yattenai (a.k.a. I Just Didn't Do It) (Japan; 2006) starring Ryo Kase and Koji Yakusho. Realistic legal drama about a young man arrested for groping a teenager on a crowded train.

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[sasword]

Cheap Killers is one of my ultimate favourite slashy/trashy HK movies - Stephen Fung is such a hobag in it even if he's meant to be straight. None of it makes an ounce of sense really, but it's just so, so ghei. <3 And I liked Moving Targets - it was nice to see Nic and Edison wangsting it out and the secondary 'couple' were cute too. I really want to see more of the 'brat pack' of HK making films en masse (Aka Stephen, Daniel, Edison, Shawn, Nic, Sam Lee.)

[keiko_kirin]

Cheap Killers is slashy, trashy, and unbelievably fun! I will forget things in it and when I pull it out again, I'm all like, "Oh, right, it's the finger-chopping scene!" LOL. This time around, I'd totally forgotten about the flame-thrower. How could I forget the flame-thrower?! jeeez.

Moving Targets is great fun and chock full of the eye candy. The other couple were totally adorable, too. A Kit/Fung love story music video is included on the DVD as an extra treat. The movie doesn't seem *that* slashy until all the scenes are put together side-by-side to music. ^_^

I really want to see more of the 'brat pack' of HK making films en masse (Aka Stephen, Daniel, Edison, Shawn, Nic, Sam Lee.)

Seriously!! I'd love to see more of them together. Looks like Stephen is doing more directing, but at least his next film has Edison in it. Nic keeps getting into long-run Chinese wuxia, and I enjoy those, too, but it keeps him away from his boyfriends buddies. Pretty HK Boys, keep the band together, dammit!

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[gwyn_r]

Koji! Ack, no subtitles, though.

I watched Babel finally about a month ago. I thought he was, as usual, really amazing and I felt so incredibly sorry for him by the end. That was the one storyline I actually felt compelled by. The movie as a whole just didn't work for me, but his story and at times the daughter's were like a separate movie I wasn't just exasperated by.

Babel

[keiko_kirin]

Yeah, that's pretty much how I felt about the movie, too. The storyline with Koji and the daughter was the one that worked the best for me, and I wasn't wanting to slap all the characters in it.

The courtroom drama movie *may* make some rounds in arthouse theaters with subtitles, so keep an eye open. It played at some US film festivals in the fall. So there are subtitles out there, and I curse the Japanese DVD company for not including them.

I will probably Netflix Silk and rip his scenes, because damn, Koji is hot in that movie. But it is so not worth having otherwise unless you're a huge Michael Pitt fan.