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South Korea/Hong Kong movies Nanonymous No.10119 [D][U][F][S][L][A][C]
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Fuck off japs edition
Let's discuss nice movies but be careful not to deanonymize yourself.

Nanonymous No.10123 [D]

The Day a Pig Fell into the Well
>A great film about infidelity and relationshits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_a_Pig_Fell_into_the_Well

Nanonymous No.10126 [D][U][F] >>10366
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If you can get anonymously movie (since this one is rare) then get Running on Karma, IMO the best Hong Kong has to offer. Story is about big and strong as fuck former monk doing impossible things. I felt like a child watching it.

Nanonymous No.10160 [D][U][F]
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>sk
>hk
arahan is both

Nanonymous No.10366 [D][U][F]
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>>10126
>An Intelligent Muscle Man
>oxymoron
>I felt like a child watching it
Will watch. It even has 2 seeders.

.mp4, best scene, is Poongsan, shit low-budget film with female protagonist being the kind of person you would kill in an instant. Maybe it was intentional that she's totally unlikeable, but fuck, she made my blood boil. The entire part where they are crossing through DMZ is cancer.
If you like hong-kong faggotry like casting singers, watch For the Emperor. It's crime thriller with charismatic protagonist. Some parts are really dull for muh aesthetics faggotry zoomers love, but it's something what hollywood should have been. There's sex, explicit violence and drama. Nothing hard to watch, that's certain, no artistry involved too, but overall enjoyable.

Nanonymous No.10650 [D][U][F] >>10673
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Not unrelated, because hong kong is chinese.
Some chinese and taiwanese films are comparable. Check out Tsai Ming-liang, Lu Chuan, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Diao Yinan, Jia Zhangke and Wang Bing, only I know since I developed little to no interest in wuxia and martial arts films in general.
Some films provide rather unique insights in case you don't particularly like contemporary eastern literature like me.

Anyway, I just saw Sunflower. Synopsis:
>Former gangster Tae-sik is released from prison and heads back to his hometown to live in a small restaurant with a woman. Attempting to leave his past behind, he takes a job in a garage and tries to keep away from the local gangs, most of whom still live in fear of his brutal reputation. When a local politician wants to knock down his adoptive mom's restaurant to build a new shopping mall, Tae-sik struggles to avoid returning to a life of violence.
If you liked Breathless, you'll probably like that too. It was much better than I expected with great rhetoric and interesting shots. Highly recommend, but the ending is quite shit, forced just like in Running on Karma.
I also recently saw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Aurora_(film) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_(2014_film). Princess Aurora is shit just like Lady Vengeance, if I knew, I wouldn't watch it. Broken is more interesting. It's "about a father who becomes a fugitive as he hunts down the two men responsible for his daughter's rape and murder." Enjoyable, but the latter half is too long and full of pointless shots imo, maybe I would enjoy it if was released on bluray, but it was released only on dvd. Not crisp.
As for Running on Karma, I did enjoy the first half, but not the second. Expected lighthearted martial arts movie and what I got instead is film that doesn't know what it wants to be. Weird. Recommend some more tho if you know any, HK movies are still mystery to me.
.mp4 is from the city of violence
Btw, do you know any other site than podnapisi that doesn't require javascript? I used subscene, but they recently cloudflared it makes sense when they had ads served by israeli company.

Nanonymous No.10673 [D] >>10756

>>10650
Will watch, synopsis was enough.
>ending is quite shit, forced just like in Running on Karma
>As for Running on Karma, I did enjoy the first half, but not the second
Just like me, it lost focus when things were interesting, but you gotta admit these fights were terrific and protagonist - actor in reality is VERY skinny.
>Recommend some more tho if you know any, HK movies are still mystery to me
The only one I can truly recommend is Exiled, movie with amazing shooting scenes that don't make any sense. All Johnnie To movies I watched but the mentioned were really bad and boring. HK has action and dynamism but lacks satisfaction from watching unfortunately. Still they're better than Japanese ones that are some of the most boring I've ever watched (objectively speaking).

Nanonymous No.10756 [D][U][F]
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>>10673
>fights
.mp4, it's normal