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Asian Cinema

Blue Spring
(2001) Yet another Japanese drama about shoe-gazing, waifish, bad-asses in high school.
Born to Fight
(2004) Thailand picks up where HK left off in 1994 with this insane action flick from the the stunt coordinator of Ong Bak!
Dead or Alive
(1999) More shocking Yakuza bloodletting from the director of Fudoh!
Evil Dead's Trap
(1988) Ultra-stylish and gory Japanese giallo. Required horror viewing.
 
Fallen Angels
(1995) Another of Wong Kar-Wai's seminal crime dramas.
First Option
(1996) Michael "Fitzgerald" Wong: Chinese or American? Who cares?
For Y'ur Height Only
(1979) Midget James Bond kicks butt and gets the chicks!
Full Metal Yakuza
(1997) The rampant silliness of Takashi Miike's RoboThug.
Godzilla: A Demon Reborn
(19XX) An article on the "new" Godzilla movies. (originally appeared in Video Junkie Magazine in 1996)
Hard-Core Hong Kong
(19XX) An over-view of the Cat-a-gory III nasties of the '90s! (originally appeared in Video Junkie Magazine in 1996)
Hitman
(1998) Jet Li is Rainman in the HK Triads!
 
Hunting List
(1992) Ultra-violent Triad action that definitely earns that Category III rating!

The Legend of Zu
(2001) Tsui Hark hops into bed with Miramax to deliver the most vacuous fluff piece of his career. And that's saying something!

 

Mothra 3
(1999) The little singing Motsura girls are wearing out their welcome.
 
Nowhere to Hide
(1999) A virtual sensory overload of uber-stylized crime cinema from Korea! 
Once Upon a Time in China and America
(1997) Jet Li returns and is ripped off by Shanghai Noon years later.
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
(1969) The master of all that is HK cinema, Jimmy Wang Yu, returns to massacre all who stand before him.
Sabu
(2002) Takashi Miike tries his hand at the jidaigeki genre and comes up with a fistful of air.
Shinjuku Triad Society
(1995) Still more Takashi Miike gangster stuff! The first of the Black Triad series.
The Tale of Zatoichi
(1962) The legendary Shintaro Katsu teams up with the legendary Kenji Misumi to create the first of the legendary Zatoichi blind swordsman films.
Walk In
(1997) HK crime with Danny Lee - who does not play a cop in this one!