Our list! We’ll see how far we get … and we love suggestions!
Hong Kong
‘Infernal Affairs’ Trilogy (Particularly the first film) – Andrew Lau & Alan Mak
‘Comrades, Almost a Love Story’ – Peter Chan
‘Boat people’ – Ann Hui
‘Night and Fog’ – Ann Hui
‘Durian, Durian’ – Fruit Chan
‘Hong Kong Hollywood’ – Fruit Chan
‘Chungking Express’ – Wong Kar Wai
‘In the Mood for Love’ – Wong Kar Wai
‘PTU’ – Johnnie To
‘Shaolin Soccer’ – Stephen Chow
***’The Way We Are‘ – Xu Anhua, 2008
China
‘The Blue Kite’ – Tian Zhuangzhuang
‘Springtime in a Small Town’ – Fei Mu (also see the remake by Tian Zhuangzhuang)
‘Farewell, My Concubine’ – Chen Kaige
‘Raise the Red Lantern’ – Zhang Yimou
‘Hero’ – Zhang Yimou
‘Blind Shaft’ – Li Yang
‘Xiao Wu’ – Jia Zhangke
‘The World’ – Jia Zhangke
‘Suzhou River’ – Lou Ye
‘Lust, Caution’ – Ang Lee
‘Beijing Bicycle’ - Xiaoshuai Wang
Taiwan
‘A Brighter Summer Day’ – Edward Yang
‘Yi, yi’ – Edward Yang
‘Eat, Drink, Man, Woman’ – Ang Lee
‘Flowers of Shanghai’ – Hou Hsiao Hsien
‘A City of Sadness’ – Hou Hsiao Hsien
Korea
‘My Sassy Girl’ – Kwak Jae-yung
‘Old Boy’ – Park Chan-wook
***’Secret Sunshine” – Lee Chang-dong
Japan
***’Departures‘ – Yojira Takita
‘Hana-bi’ – Takeshi Kitano
‘Spirited Away’ (anime) – Hayao Miyazaki
‘Ghost in the Shell’ (anime) – Mamoru Oshii
‘The Twilight Samurai’ – Yoji Yamada
All the classic Kurosawa films – ‘Ran’ (See the parallels to King Lear!), ‘Seven Samurai’, ‘Yojimbo’
‘Flavor of Happiness’ - Mitsuhiro Mihara
