Far East Films – News, Reviews and a nice friendly forum on this site which was formerly known as Dragons Den UK
Podcast on Fire – With the boast that they’re ‘Asian Cinema’s No.1 Movie Podcast’, this site had better be good. Luckily it is.
10,000 Bullets – Great site with lots of news and reviews and information, always worth spending sometime having a trawl through.
Asian Movie Web – Nice site with a good archive of reviews and news, well worth checking out.
City On Fire – Big site with attitude. Many of the reviews are short, but these guys know their stuff.
Cool Target – Tidy little blog of reviews from one of the team members of Far East Films.
HK DVD Heaven – The site hasn’t been updated in at least a couple of years, but the HK reviews are still worth checking out.
Hong Kong Film Net – Excellent site that has grown into a fantastic resource with a large collection of excellent reviews.
Kung Fu Cinema – Mark Pollard’s site is on of the BIG kung fu sites on the web – bookmark it.
Love Asian Film – Small but always excellent blog style site.
Love and Bullets – Another excellent collection of reviews that has slowly grown over the years into an excellent reference site.
Love HK Film – A monster of a site with loads of good stuff – put a couple of hours aside and have a look.
M-Dream – Asian entertainment website with all sorts of goodies – such as cover art and biographical information on Asian stars.
Nippon Cinema – Top site dedicated to Japanese cinema with the latest news and reviews and a good trailer archive.
Monkey Peaches – Another great resource for news on Hong Kong and Chinese cinema.
Sex Gore Mutants – Does what it says on the label – hundreds of reviews of films with a sex and gore quota.
Beyond Hollywood – Great news and reviews with a no nonsense attitude and a good emphasis on Asian flicks.
Asian Fanatics – Massive website and community with news and views on all aspects of Asian cinema. And lots of gossip.
Twitch - Excellent site for news and reviews of foreign language, independent and cult cinema.
Koreanfilm.org – Darcy Paquet’s site is the daddy of all english language sites dedicated to Korean films on the web. A ‘must visit’ page for anyone interested in Korean cinema.
HanCinema – The Korean movie and drama database, this massive site does what it says on the label. And well.
London Korean Links – Excellent resource detailing the latest news and views on all sorts of Korean issues as well as coverage of related London based events.
Third Window Films – This UK distributor released a bunch of Korean flicks before branching out into Japanese cinema, a great catalogue.
Terracotta Distribution – Relatively new UK distributor, who has a few Korean titles on their books and possibly more to follow.
Asian Movie Pulse – Asian cinema website with news, reviews and articles – also houses a growing forum.
FilmSmash - Blog-based site from some of the team of the sadly defunct Kung Fu Cult Cinema, as well as a lively forum.
KoreanFilm.org.uk – Site dedicated to Korean Cinema news with a UK focus.
Great website, great article, I will be coming here regularly for the latest news.
thanx
Not to forget that Park said that he wanted to make a film that his “daughter could watch”… er… maybe without the gunfire?
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I loved this film! What a fantastically original thriller. Alternately expertly between slow-burning suspense, horror, and drama, Na Hong-jin has my attention! I’m excitedly looking for to his next, The Murderer, which sadly doesn’t have a lot of information I can find on it. Thanks for the great review!
I decided to give this movie a go based purely on Shin Ha-kyun being the lead, as I loved him in JSA, Thirst, and the Vengeance films. Like yourself, given the zany poster I believed this to be a wacky, fun comedy. I was misled and couldn’t have been more pleased to find a film that exceeds and expectations the viewer could have about what they’re getting into. Another great review, thank you!
Thanks for the comments!
There’s not alot of info around on Na Hong-jin’s follow up ‘Murderer’, but here’s what I’ve seen:
The film will be co-produced with 20th Century Fox and enters principle photography early 2010. Murderer will be directed by Na Hong-jin and is based on his own script. Interestingly he has already cast the two stars from The Chaser – Ha Jung-woo and Kim Yun-seok – in this. The plot details which have been revealed are that ‘Murderer’ is the story of man from the Korean autonomous prefecture of Yanbian, who sets sail for South Korea for a hit – i.e. to assassinate someone. He is paid only $500 in advance and told nothing about his target. Of course, things don’t quite go the way he is hoping…
Should be good!
I watched Haeundae on R2 DVD the other day. I came to it with an open mind, and found it to be a huge disappointment. Maybe it was the international edit, but it all seemed a bit disjointed. I loved it when it started raining containers from that big container ship though!
That’s a view held by lots of people, I found that I took it the other way (and in the vein that all of these disaster films are put together) and found alot to like. In fact, I thought the containers scene was very funny but a little out of tone with the second half of the film. It definitely seems to be a film which divides its viewers!