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Yeah I agree -- we followed sitenoise here but it turned out that there are other sites that are far more active. It's only a matter of time before this peters out because there is very little activity aside from the asian board, which is less than ten of us regulars. The fact that I can't say...

You personally post almost every post on this site, in an effort to pad it out like it's active. It's your site, but be honest. The fact that a moderator has to pounce in here and reply shows exactly what is missed about the imdb board. It would be appreciated if people could comment without...

[searches for the nose-picking emoji]. Looks like a seven to me. I dig it. Drives his motorcycle in low gear? How annoying. And it's probably one of those lame little 250's that's supposed to look like a Harley 1100. Too bad -- it looks extremely Japanese, and like everything out of Japan...

Bad Guys Always Die (China/Korea 2015) A joint China-Korea production, and you know that that means: Chinese money trying to glom off of Korean mojo. This was on youtube; I found it entertaining and kind of fun. It definitely has that ragtag feel of contemporary Chinese middle-budget mainstream...

Lol. Lol.

The world would really be a better place if you were an ESPN International sportscaster. I don't even know if there is an "ESPN International." Didn't you just recently get into Volleyball at the last Olympics? I recall something with that. I don't think you're going to win any converts to your...

May I? Anamorphic lenses are a technique they used a lot when wide-screen films became a thing in the 50s -- they wanted wide images to capture the vast expanse of the western prairie and stuff like that. So like divemaster says, the lens would capture a wide image and squish it (vertically) to...

Well, it seems like the Asian Cinema thread is the busiest thread on this site. Other than our little tribe, not much activity. So it seems like us imdb refugees are still on more of a raft than an island. But whatever. I think some of the other imdb-offshoot sites have more activity, but it's...

Yes and I kept thinking when I was watching it, they did it, the made that future, but it took until 'now,' the past 10 years or so. Now Vietnam is finally a booming Tiger economy and is doing well. But they didn't get a Marshall Plan, they had to do it on their own and it took 40 years. As far...

Well, that's the thing about perspective, isn't it? It's hard to say what's propaganda and what isn't (in this war... especially). It sure looks like that if you're American (or Ozzie). But the things portrayed and said were not exaggerated or unrealistic; the portrayal of soldiers was not...

The Little Girl of Hanoi (1975) Even if you think you're open minded and liberal, it's unsettling to see war from the other side's perspective. TLGoH was shot in Hanoi in 1974 or 1975 when the last blobs of napalm were still smoldering in Vietnam. It looks and plays a lot like Czech new wave...

I can't stand John Travolta, but I have to admit he was good here in his small role. Maybe because the character was a repulsive, cold-blooded lizard like him. I think there's a role for every actor. But you're right, generally, the characters were weak. It would have been better if it was 100%...

Yeah, well, the dilemma here was recommending a film that I hadn't already watched. If I had already watched it, I wouldn't have been in on watching it for the first time. But it's murphy's law that it would turn out to be the least good of the ones I've seen so far. Yeah so was I. I think that...

Let 'er rip!

Okay people persons, thanks to @plsletitrain for the suggestion -- you guys expressed some interest in these Shaw Bros films, so anyone that wants to grab some popcorn and join me, I'm going to be watching My Dream Boat (1967) this weekend. This is a melodrama written by Yao Chiung, queen of the...

Insanity is the artist's friend. This looks pretty damn OTT camp, but I bet it was influential.

I vote John's song, but I liked Paul's. John was certainly a better songwriter, but not by such a whole lot, and if it wasn't for Paul and the boys, he probably would have ended up working his whole life in a fish canning factory in Liverpool, just a typical bitter, sarcastic, drunk asshole at...

Thanks for the tip. I saw Auntie Lan for sale on Amazon for like $28. Yikes! If I ever make it to Hong Kong, I am going to look for street vendors that sell these DVDs. I bet they sell for a couple bucks. Because it makes more sense to pay $719 for a plane ticket to Hong Kong + HK$20 for a DVD...

Glad to hear you guys are into checking out those Shaw Bros films. I don't know if anyone else will like them, but you can expect the level of filmmaking is basically like the better kung fu movies, but in different genres. @divemaster13 suggests dramas, so that narrows it down a bit from the...

This site doesn't let me post it as media, but here's the full movie of Song of Orchid Island in Chinese, if you're curious what the visuals look like: https://v.qq.com/x/cover/w6vcwamxmivk61q/v00162qw79r.html