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World Cinema / Asia
The powerhouses of China, India and Japan dominate Asian cinema. But the continent boasts several other key players, including Hong Kong (with its magnificent martial arts movies, ballistic crime pictures and stylish arthouse dramas by the likes of Tsui Hark, John Woo and Wong Kar-wai), South Korea (renowned for complex crime thrillers and dark ... show more > Recommended World Cinema / Asia Films
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Lust, Caution2007, Ang Lee, DVD During WWII in China, a beautiful spy begins an affair with a powerful political figure to facilitate his assassination, but complex emotions complicate her mission. The film has already made headlines for its graphic sex scenes, yet these are so ...
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Seven Samurai1954, Akira Kurosawa, DVD Superlative adventure film in which seven warriors defend a village from ferocious bandits. With comedy, pathos, tension and some of the finest action sequences ever filmed, this is simply magnificent cinema. It was of course later remade as 'The ...
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Sansho Dayu + Gion Bayashi (Masters of Cinema)1953-54, Kenji Mizoguchi, DVD Famed for its period reconstructions and powerful imagery, often through the director's trademark long takes, Sansho Dayu is one of the most critically revered of all of Mizoguchi's films, and a classic of world cinema, often cropping up in lists ...
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Ugetsu Monogatari + Oyu-Sama (Masters of Cinema)1951; 1953, Kenji Mizoguchi, DVD Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales of the Rain and Moon) is a masterwork of Japanese cinema. Based on a pair of 18th century ghost stories by Ueda Akinari, the film's release continued Mizoguchi's introduction to the West, where it was nominated...
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20462004, Wong Kar-Wai, DVD Wong Kar-Wai's gorgeous loose follow-up to In the Mood For Love in which Tony Leung is the writer who has moved to a hotel to complete his science-fiction story. A familiar swoony atmosphere dominates. Both seductive and baffling, it's a must-see ...
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 The Satyajit Ray Collection (Volume 1)1963-66, Satyajit Ray, DVD Three classic films from the renowned Bengali filmmaker, Satyajit Ray: Mahanagar, Charulata and Nayak. Mahanagar (The Big City) (1963), stars Madhabi Mukherjee as a housewife whose growing independence alarms her traditionalist family, and is ...
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Woman of the Dunes (Directors Cut)1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara, DVD The director's cut of Teshigahara's best known work. Out in the sand dunes a woman lives alone at the bottom of a pit. Local villagers bring her a man. He can't escape, but gradually they are drawn to each other. An atmospheric, highly charged and...
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Mikio Naruse Collection (BFI)1954 - 1960, Mikio Naruse, DVD A collection of three of Mikio Naruse's finest films. Features When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960), an elegant black and white Cinemascope melodrama in which a bar hostess attempts to escape her lot; Floating Clouds (1955) and Late Chrysant...
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The Chess Players1977, Satyajit Ray, DVD Ray's first film in a language other than Bengali - here English, Urdu and Hindi - is a gently humorous, acutely observed satire of colonialism and self absorption. Using the powerful symbolism of the chess games of two nobles to make an acute com...
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 The Realm of the Senses1976, Nagisa Oshima, DVD It is a testament to director Oshima that the Realm of the Senses (Ai No Corrida) was distributed at all. An explicit study of sex and death, the subject matter was so controversial in Japan that cans of film were smuggled to France to be processe...
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 Ran1985, Akira Kurosawa, DVD Returning to a field explored in Throne of Blood, Kurosawa, at the age of 75, adapted Shakespeare's King Lear to the story of ageing warlord Hidetora who, in an attempt to restore peace, divides his kingdom between his three sons and retires from ...
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The Apu Trilogy (Box Set)1955, 1956, 1959, Satyajit Ray, DVD The three films, each a masterpiece in their own right, are enormously touching in their simplicity, emotional sweep and visual beauty. In Ray's extraordinarily accomplished debut Pather Panchal(1955), he begins the story of Apu, a boy born into a...
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The River (Renoir)1951, Jean Renoir, DVD AKA Le Fleuve. A lovingly restored print of Renoir's rite-of-passage tale of three sisters living in Bengal, India, whose lives are thrown into disorder following the arrival of an American pilot.
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 The Scent of Green Papaya1993, Tran Anh Hung, DVD An exquisitely filmed rags-to-riches love story about a servant girl growing up in 1950s Saigon. One of the quietest and loveliest melodramas you will see. Very beautiful.
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Chikamatsu Monogatari + Uwasa No Onna (Masters of Cinema)1954, Kenji Mizoguchi, DVD Based on a centuries old tale with roots in real events, Chikamatsu Monogatari (A Tale From Chikamatsu, aka The Crucified Lovers) tells the hauntingly tragic story of a forbidden love affair between a merchant's wife and her husband's employee in ...
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