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How come China has never produced a Kurosawa?
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Date: May 27th, 2025 5:49 PM Author: talented quadroon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48965840) |
Date: May 28th, 2025 9:45 AM Author: talented quadroon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48967109) |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM Author: buck-toothed zippy pistol associate John Woo and Wong Kar-Wei have made some incredible movies (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48967129) |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:56 AM Author: arousing piazza liquid oxygen hong kong is a separate film industry
the real answer is mainland directors like zhang yimou made some bangers but they all got banned for showing gay shit (farewell my concubine) or for showing embarrassing episodes from chinese history (a touch of sin, to live) |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:58 AM Author: talented quadroon are u a Chinese film mo? touch of sin looks 180, adding it to the list (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48967147) |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 1:57 PM Author: Glittery Skinny Woman I've shilled another film by this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=333QeMq9kh4 |
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Date: May 29th, 2025 1:52 PM Author: Irradiated carnelian philosopher-king > got banned for gay shit
my brother in christ, Chen Kaige (farewell my concubine) made that movie in 1994, and since then has won double digit domestic film awards
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Date: May 29th, 2025 2:45 PM Author: talented quadroon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48971325) |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:58 AM Author: Fuchsia resort headpube CR. Also, does Edward Yang count? Yi Yi and A Confucian Confusion alone put him among the greats in any medium IMO. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48967145) |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 2:08 PM Author: Fishy native Yuge Stephen Chow fan here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48968109) |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 2:46 PM Author: Offensive Sanctuary kung fu, god of cookery, shaolin soccer. yes, in that order. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48968248) |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 2:52 PM Author: Fishy native Love on Delivery and Look Out, Officer! were both Belushi level mass market comedies imo Justice, My Foot! was also very good and the fat Cantonese thug phenotype guy he has across from him in many of these is a highly underrated comedic actor. afaik chow didn't direct these but as i understand it he had a good deal of creative control after he got more clout within the hk star system God of Cookery was a little overrated seeming but i enjoy low budget Shaw Brothers fare and still had fun with it |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 2:57 PM Author: Offensive Sanctuary 林子聰 is awesome. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48968311) |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 3:21 PM Author: Fishy native he's also a gifted physical comedy actor but i think i'm talking about "Uncle Tat" (達叔), who had me in stitches 4/5 times he had a bit on screen https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS5zbR54eGNS8FXXEQrtP2Fk8A2BwmTwWEG5Q&usqp=CAU the Cantonese Jack Black with only a tenth of JB's schtick-obnoxiousness |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 5:13 PM Author: Fishy native https://youtu.be/-FsAstiwLnc?si=l7BDUIf4mw92mTIh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48968684) |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 11:15 AM Author: talented quadroon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48967376) |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 11:24 AM Author: Bateful maniacal codepig location this is like asking why the balkans have never produced a massimo bottura (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48967398) |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 1:34 PM Author: talented quadroon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48967988) |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 2:07 PM Author: Fishy native China has some good filmmakers in the margins waiting to be discovered by Western critics still. A lot of Mainland film from the 70s and 80s still hasn't been professionally translated into English Generally the reasons CCP film endeavors failed are the same as to their Soviet counterparts: peevish MASSOLIT type bureaucrats holding the censorial rod, unsocialized peasant populations lacking taste for what's rareified in cinema, and a general lack of resources ponied up for anything beyond what's "high concept" enough to appeal to both party and people |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 2:12 PM Author: Glittery Skinny Woman I liked Beijing Bicycle which is kind of a callback to De Sica's Bicycle Thieves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpHgZgFBfJ0 |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 2:31 PM Author: Offensive Sanctuary kurosawa was wildly popular and pedestrian, think spielberg. he was not critically acclaimed and while he brought japanese cinema international, it is the cinephile and cineaste set that really worships him. japanese at the time thought his films were immature, too western and flashy. it is funny to me that white liberals worship kurosawa now.
chinese cinema was closed off for many decades and unknown to the west. there are many great directors, more recently the fifth generation, zhang yimou and chen kaige being personal favorites. the fact that barely anyone knows these names tells me that you guys think chinese cinema is jackie chan in rush hour. |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 2:32 PM Author: Fishy native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48968183) |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 2:46 PM Author: Glassy gunner dont forget kung fu panda (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48968244) |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 3:48 PM Author: turquoise coldplay fan theatre remember the Orbit Gum Girl? She acts in Chinese Films now for some reason:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Branch |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:42 PM Author: Fishy native she is stupid pretty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48968927) |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 5:15 PM Author: smoky base TBF, I watched 4-5 kurosawa films and thought almost all of them were awesome and 100x better than anything today (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48968687) |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:33 PM Author: talented quadroon What do you recommend in English for getting started? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48968886) |
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Date: May 28th, 2025 7:12 PM Author: Dull fantasy-prone school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48969001) |
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Date: May 29th, 2025 11:25 AM Author: Titillating soggy range mental disorder Zhang Yimou is more pedestrian, goofy and style over substance than Kurosawa
If you said Lou Ye or Peter Ho-Sun Chan you would sound more credible (ie, 6th gen directors) |
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Date: May 29th, 2025 11:43 AM Author: Glittery Skinny Woman he made more nuanced, "quieter" movies before going big budget Hollywood (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48970698) |
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Date: May 29th, 2025 1:59 PM Author: Offensive Sanctuary 6th gen directors mostly were babies or not even born when kurosawa was making movies. peter chan is hk, thats where he started and was most successful. yes, he made some films in china. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48971162) |
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Date: May 29th, 2025 11:48 AM Author: lascivious mahogany step-uncle's house toaster kurosawa is fucking awful (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48970712) |
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Date: May 29th, 2025 2:47 PM Author: Shivering nubile round eye eh he's no Goo Goo Muk Muk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48971332) |
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Date: May 29th, 2025 9:16 AM Author: talented quadroon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730447&forum_id=2#48970172) |