Just bought my wife is a gangster myself today to MIB, cant wait to watch it. Ah Dumplings, very strange movie that, watched it once a few months ago, good film, but weird, the leading actress (i forget her name but shes lovely!) plays a woman who seemingly is obsessed with looking young, so she goes to a woman who has some kind of talent with making dumpings which help to make her and others youthful in looks (im not a good writer so please forgive the poor description of this film ^^). Was shocked with what she made dumplings from later in the film, but wont spoil it, needless to say it kind of made me angry, since i felt so sad for the girl. Great, but strange film.

Well, I'd love to go but with no income I'd not be able to afford it, although I'm sure the ticket price will probably end up being great value.

And if I did go and had the money, I'd probably end up buying half the merchandise on offer.

the tickets are £10, also benoit are you going to japan on your trip, i am going there in nov, on my own mind you but hope to meet people outthere, i am having japanese lessons at the end of the month, so in time i can order dvd stright from japan and not have to worry about subtitles.

also do you know that My Wife Is A Gangster 3 is out soon.

also I am recording japanarma so when i have all 6 eps I can send them to you lot, i have the last series on dvd as well somewhere.

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i am having japanese lessons at the end of the month, so in time i can order dvd stright from japan and not have to worry about subtitles.

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Not wishing to put you off but to become fluent enough in Japanese to follow the dialogue in a film will probably take quite some time - especially the speed the natives speak at. Unless you are a very quick learner and can devote the maximum amount of study time to it, I don't think a year or so is too unreasonable a target. Even my cousin who lived and worked out there for a couple of years never became fluent enough.

Anyway, back on topic,whilst I still have the first two My Wife Is A Gangster films to watch, I just hope that My Wife..3 doesn't mean this will become a franchise that is run into the ground for the sake of it. Nothing spells disaster than a great idea being diluted because greedy producers think it has mileage after the first film was a great success.

-- Edited by Man In Black at 19:54, 2007-04-07

Just been reading about My Wife...3. It came out last December in Korea and stars my future ex-wife Shu Qi in the lead role!

What I don't get is how they can tie this in with the original premise of the first film when neither the original wife or husband (who I understand isn't even in the second film) are present! Despite the positive reviews I have read about it, this does sound like they are capitalising on the original films success by milking the title without having any direct connection to it, which is quite sad.

thanks for the heads up MIB. Love the house of flying daggers, one of the most visually beautiful movies iv ever seen with the lovely Zhang Ziyi ^^, Kung Fu Hustle is Hilarious, so i really should get to see that again.

just received Takashi Miike's Dead or Alive Final Version on press disc today, so I shall be watching that later. Anyone seen it?

-- Edited by Darth Mattitude at 14:48, 2007-05-04

Some interesting DVD lists there.  Personally I am more inclined towards old-school Kung-Fu though perhaps 'used to be' would be more accurate. 

In the last few days I watched 'Ring' with a youngish Chigusa Nagayo starring in the title role as a wannabe pro wrestler who works in what looks like some kind of steel/metal works.  The opening sequence is great and features some nice shots of Chigusa working in the hellish looking environment of the factory.  If you pay attention you notice that when she leaves work (cycling on her bike) that the big silver bus that passes is actually the All Japan Women's tourbus.  Quite a nice touch.  Later on through the film various wrestlers appear (from 1993) for only brief seconds mostly. 

On a curious note I think that the only wrestler that is played by an actress is the Devil Masami character.  She was never that good looking!  Perhaps they thought she was too much of a faceache.

Altogether a pretty weird film where the men seem to constantly try and rape the Chigusa Nagayo character or put down women in some kind of way.  This is all far to over the top and rather spoils the film.  It might make more sense if I could speak Japanese

If you want to see the beggining of the film check it out at:

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v470008xG5Tz7Ak

The music at the beggining is pretty cool.

Stranger to see Chigusa in a kind of love scene.  It turns out more like a wrestling match!  She was never my idea of a sex symbol

A couple more TV heads up for you:

Tonight at 1.40 am BBC2 (you read that right) are showing a Chinese film called Foreign Moon. It's about a Chinese flautist who comes to London to study msuic but has to start up a business to pay her fees.

And over on film 4 starting Sunday through to Tuesday, the excellent Infernal Affairs trilogy gets another outing.

Another TV heads as Hong Kong chiller The Eye is on Film 4 tomorrow night at 23.40pm.

Amazingly, there haven't been many Hong Kong horror films and The Eye was something of a breakthrough. Whilst not a complete "Horror" Dumplings was a big success too.

As for old stuff, Mysterians sounds familiar. I don't know if you've seen the Lady Snowblood films or the Zatoichi films but they are classics. Also, films like Tokyo Drifter and the Seijun Suzuki films of the 60's which are Yakuza classics. I don't know if they will be to your taste as Suzuki was often fired by film studios for making films that were too obscure.

Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Drifter

Heads up - Jet Li's Wu Shu martial arts swansong Fearless debuts on SKY Premier tomorrow night at 23.30pm and will run for the whole week in that slot. Highest recommendations to see this film.

Also, Bravo 2 have been showing Hong Kong action and martial arts films during the week at 21.00pm. Tonight it is New Dragon Gate Inn (with Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung). Next week they'll be showing

Monday: Tiger On The Beat (with Chow Yun Fat)
Tuesday: Full Contact (with Chow Yun Fat)
Wednesday: Island of Fire (with Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung & Andy Lau)
Thursday: Bichunmoo (excellent Korean martial arts film)

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Have been looking and discussing films at other sites 

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Well, invite some of those people along to join us here!

 

Are they censored? and are they dubbed or subbed?

I have both on DVD anyway and won't be staying up late to watch them, but thanks for the info, might watch the start just to answer my own questions above.

-- Edited by NymVette at 22:51, 2007-08-19

Cant beat battle royal, fantastic film, there is several different box sets here in japan, i already have 7 dvd sets of them, the original tartan releases of one and two, the 2 tin sets, the bullet ridden box japanese set of the original film and 2 other bonus feature packed sets
with a couple of tshirts and things with them. I love battle royale and really need to watch them again.

A couple more TV notes:

Tonight on Film 4 is Ju-On: The Grudge at 00:45am and on Sunday is Lady Vengeance at 23.35pm which is followed by a replay of Ju-On.

-- Edited by Man In Black at 20:22, 2007-08-22

Battle Royale is of course legendary.Iv picked up quite a few asian films here in japan,a newly released Geisha film which looks like a comedy, a film called TRICK, Dororo, a few animes and a few sci fi fantasy films which look awesome. I love japanese cinema so cant wait to watch them finally!

Film 4 does it again with Johnny To's renowned triad film Election airing on Tuesday at 22.40pm!

My Asian DVD collection is not as big as I'd like it to be. If I had the room and the money then trust me it would be much larger than it is right now! At the moment it stands at 203 DVDs - that's including Anime. 158 excluding Anime.

Well check out Election tonight on Film 4 to give you an idea of what Johnnie To films are like.

Another nice find Mib ^-^ Arigatou for the info!

Iv been on a spending spree with asian film recently Mib ^-^ (since i just realised my fornightly income supprt thing has gone up by quite a bit!) and yester along with elfed Lied, i bought a couple of more films. Typhoon is one i have to watch so i might go and see that tonight, also Tetsuo Body Hammer which i hope will be good fun, because the original was fantastic apart from that lazy ending of it.Im going to look online for the Seyuki film on dvd which i think may be out in a couple of weeks (or as many of us know here the west, Monkey!)

Im sure youll get them Mib ^-^.Amazon is amazing for asian films,i had a look on there recently and theres several new Asian films on Tartan asia in the US which we havent got here yet.I bought a couple of ebay because i dont have a credit card of my own (which at this rate of my spending is probably a good thing i dont..).One movie Bloody Reunion is one i bought and its a korean film which is supposed to be quite brutal and Gory, and another is called Silk, which from the box looks to be a korean version of Cube.