Quote (ZiggyStardust @ Feb 5 2015 10:00pm)
I love Korean cinema. Obviously their specialty over the recent years has been revenge films, which would fit your criteria of action, crime, gangster, thriller. Now, I really don't think many of those films I would recommend to people as "MUST watch", because few of them have truly been great films for me... but the thing is they are all consistently good at the worst. And if you're into Korean cinema then you already love their style so then I guess they all kind of turn into must-watches for you.
Mother is probably the only exception, that's the best Korean film I've seen and it's a truly great film.
Chan-wook Park's vengeance trilogy is solid. I felt Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance was the best of the three, but they're all good and they seem to get more, uh, crazier stylistically with each one.
The Chaser is pretty good and I didn't love I Saw the Devil as much as most people seemed to, but the dude wears such a bitchin' leather jacket in the film.
Memories of Murder is a very good film that is more mystery than thriller or anything else, but a very engaging story. The same director did The Host which is a really fun monster movie.
And for some more on the action side. The Man from Nowhere, which contains one of my favorite shots of all time. A Bittersweet Life is a very cool gangster film, and A Company Man was not as good but solid.
Like I said, most of these weren't really great films (at least to me), but they're just so consistently good. I think Korean films contain some of the most innovative cinematography in all cinema right now and they're all just such a pleasure to watch.
ill check out mother and a bittersweet life i've watched the rest Chan-wook Park is amazing i've watched everything by him im pretty sure the most recent was his vampire movie it was well meh
10 fold better than that shit twilight though lol
Quote (Scaly @ Feb 5 2015 10:31pm)
Couldn't agree more. Pretty much anything by Chan Wook Park or Joon Ho Bong is amazing. Also pretty much anything starring Min Sik Choi.
One of the films that got me into Korean cinema was 'Save the green planet'. Definitely worth a watch and very much in the vein of 'I'm a Cyborg but that's ok' by Chan Wook Park.
e/ Oh and if you want a better gangster film than 'A Bittersweet life' (which is still a good movie btw) I would have to say I enjoyed 'A Dirty Carnival' far more.
I have not seen A Dirty Carnival
Quote (Secksii @ Feb 6 2015 12:23am)
^agreed but here's more
A dirty carnival (hella gangsta fight scenes)
bittersweet life (my favorite actor, dat asian dude from GI joe/red movie and soon to be released terminator 5)
I saw the Devil (same actor mentioned above, fucking crazy movie)
The Man From No Where
Tazza (gambling/crime movie, fucking awesome)
Tazza 2 (gambling/crime movie)
Berlin File (action filled thriller)
Art of Fighting (bullied victim learns how to fight, stands up for himself)
Fighter in the wind (some korean dude that got rekt by the japs during ww2, but later trained himself to become GG, based on true stroy Masutatsu Oyama, founder of Kyokushin Karate)
Once upon a time in high school
A company man
Target
New World
No Tears for the Dead
The Suspect
lmk if you want more
few in there i havn't seen this is a good start
