/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>>/cn/

Kinda.

"Hero" was a good movie tho.

I used to like it as a kid but I grew out of it.

sure

I fucking love Chinese costume dramas and martial arts movies.

I quite like old-school kung-fu films. Against the odds, modern kung-fu films seem to be even sillier.

Has Japan made any good movies recently that aren't by that one horror director? China and Korea have been making all sorts of great movies but I haven't heard of any decent ones coming out of Japan.

fucking worthless Chinese scumbags.

Old chinese martial arts movies + awkward french voices = My favorite.

>>8833100
>Has Japan made any good movies
No.

>>8833144
They made plenty of good movies decades ago. Not just the Kurosawa ones even.

The only recent Japanese films I've seen were The Suicide Club, which sucked, and Zebraman, which also sucked, but in kind of a lovable way.

I like that shit.

Once again, proof that the Jews are better at everything.

Are you even trying, goyim?

>>8833099
This I like the old ones. Newer ones rely too much on all that flying wires shit. Old ones have other ways to be ridiculous. I like the flying guillotine one.

I also like the goofy semi-modern ones with lots of special effects, like the kung fu hustle, shaolin soccer, and storm riders movies. I don't know why people don't make more movies with people blowing shit up with special effects.

Dark City was fucking awesome for that, even though it's not Chinese or martial arts.

>>8833191
>Old ones have other ways to be ridiculous.
This. There's something awesome about watching ninjas do double somersaults after bouncing off something that obviously wasn't a trampoline just out of shot.

I like old sci-fi serials for the same reason.

No but, I do have a new appreciation for the chinese language. I used to think it was Ching chong nip nong until I watched sword of the stranger. The way the chinamen spoke was very strange to me. I shrugged it of as old dialect and moved on. Then I saw ip man. The sounded the same. I love Chinese now, nip is still better though.

Chinese movies with flying dudes hold a special place in my heart from my childhood, though I kinda forgot about them lately.

Just posting this to annoy the guy that gets paid for doing it.

>>8833280
wrong pic

>>8833087
I also liked Hero.

Are there even action movies lately in Glorious Nippon?

Last I've watched was 13 Assassins.

>Chinese

>>8833280
how is that going to annoy him?

>>8833161
>They made plenty of good movies decades ago. Not just the Kurosawa ones even.
Like?
Also, get your pretentious shit out of here.

/jp/ has been filled with Chinese since the whole Wikipedia thing... or was it? I remember /jp/ being this Chinese even before, Flanfly threads being a prime example.

>>8833253
Chinese is ching, chong and nong, but no nip.

Also, 《赤壁》 Red Cliff [1+2] is great and you should watch them.

>>8833070
FUCKING NAMELESS!

My childhood hero.

/jp/ - Jhinese Culture

I like Gun-fu movies. Less flying but still plenty.

>>8837267
But now that we’re on the subject, suggest some good Chinese films.

>>8837320
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPL:_Sha_Po_Lang

West seems to like the east. meow.

>>8837355
>meow.
I don’t know what this means.
I mean I know it’s obviously the onomatopoeia for the sound a cat makes, but I don’t know why you would put it here.

>>8837267
Says the person that doesn't SHIT about the Chinese language.

>>8837370
Here’s a ching 青, here’s a chong 虫, here’s a nong 侬.

The ching one is of course qing in correct Pinyin but it’s good enough. There is nothing resembling nip in Mandarin.

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名称，GNU与Linux。Linux本来自己不是一个电脑操作系统，而是GNU系统的一个部
分。有个GNU corelibs，系统中心程序和重要系统组件，它才成为一个全面电脑操作系统，根
据POSIX的定义。

什麼玩意兒，兄弟！哈哈哈！我笑的太衝動了，我從椅子掉下來了，可是我還
是無法停止大笑！哈哈哈哈哈哈！這是個大便！哈哈哈哈哈!一個超大的大便
！哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈！一個震天震地的屎砣子！哈哈哈哈！恭喜啊
，兄弟！

>>8837369
U can't feel my heart u robot.

>>8837389
and how often are these words used? How about using a more standard sentence with common words, something that would be used in everyday speech? how often would you have to say "the green/blue insect in the rural"?

>English: I've already eaten today's dinner.
>Mandarin Chinese: 今天的晚飯我已經吃過了。/Jīntiān de wǎnfàn wǒ yǐjīng chīguò le.
>Cantonese: 今日嘅晚飯我已經食咗喇。/Gam1yat6 ge3 maan5faan6 ngo5 ji3ging1 sik6zo2 la3
>Taiwanese Hokkien: 今仔日ㄟ暗飯我已經食過矣。/Kin-á-ji̍t ê àm-pn̄g góa í-king chia̍h-kuè ah
>Japanese: 今日の晩御飯はもう食べた。/Kyō no bangohan wa mō tabeta.
>Okinawan Ryukyuan: 今日ぬ夕御飯ーなー噛だん。/Chuu nu yuu'ubanoo naa kadan.
>Korean: 오늘 의 저녁밥 은 이미 먹었다./Oneul ui jeonyeokbab eun imi meok-eotda.

>>8833100

China and Korea make awesome blockbusters.

Japan makes superior niche and indie films. The only recent, big budget Japanese directors I hold in any regard are Takashi Miike and BEAT Takeshi.

>>8837336
i don't know why i watched this movie 3 times
Sammo Hung looks better when he's old, like in Ip Man 2

any recent chinese movie about the three kindgom or similar ? i feel like watching war movie

>>8837320
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warriors_of_the_Rainbow:_Seediq_Bale

This is a really good Taiwanese film about native Taiwanese Aborigines of the Seediq tribe fighting against the Japanese during the time when Taiwan was a Japanese colony. It's very gruesome, full of gore and beheadings (the Seediq tribe specialised in headhunting). It's only been recently released though in cinemas, so I don't think there are DVDs/BDs yet.

>>8837454
oh, forgot to mention, produced by John Woo. the same guy who directed Red Cliff, and a whole bunch of Chow Yun-fat triad-shooting films.

>>8837456
Yes, watch >>8837267
Red Cliff is about the battle of Red Cliff, end of the Han, before the Three Kingdom Period. Good stuff.

>>8837417
Qing is common (請 清 情 etc), nong 农 for farm related words (农民 nongmin, farmers) And chong sounds are everywhere, like in 中国 zhongguo (China). Calm down man, I was just saying that ching chong and nong were valid Mandarin sounds.

>>8837320
3D Sex and Zen. It's the first Chinese porno filmed and shown in IMAX 3D, and it features Japanese AV idols.

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Sex_and_Zen:_Extreme_Ecstasy
>3D肉蒲團之極樂寶鑑
>A conceited Ming Dynasty scholar called Wei Yangsheng believes that since life is short, one should pursue the ultimate sexual pleasure as time permits. By chance, he meets Yuxiang, the daughter of the Taoist priest Tie Fei, falls in love with her on first sight, and marries her. Yuxiang is elegant and courteous under the influence of her father's faith, though her lack of passion cannot fully satisfy Wei Yangsheng's sexual needs. His disappointment is no less than his affection for her. He ventures in search of ways to increase his sex drive and performance in bed.

Can anyone recommend some good movies about great march?

>>8837488
Oh, saw some screenshots of this, along with the poster. not interested in 3D porn that isn’t either dickgirl or lesbian stuff.

>>8837495
I don’t know any about the Great March. But if you want communism-related films, try out Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 巴尔扎克与小裁缝). It’s about two young bourgeois men who are sent to the countryside for reeducation.
There they secretly introduce a girl to literature. It’s a good film.

Old movies with Jackie Chan like Project A are good.

>>8837538
A pretty recent good Jackie Chan film is Shinjuku Incident, but that is of course set in Japan.

>>8837241
>Also, get your pretentious shit out of here.

Oh shut the fuck up.

Hipsters liking Kurosawa doesn't make him any less of a director.

As for the other old Japanese movies, I can't recall names exactly, just some films I've seen on TCM. One had Fruit in the title the other was a ghost story.

>>8837495
dunno about the Great March, but if you're looking for Communist-themed films, there's this:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Founding_of_a_Republic
it's a 2009 Chinese propaganda film about how the republic was formed (Chinese Civil War against the KMT), and features a shitload of cameos by famous Chinese celebrities (Jackie Chan, Jet Li, John Woo, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Zhao Wei, Andy Lau, Donnie Yen...)

>>8837320
off the top of my head:
-Kung Fu Hustle
-House of Flying Daggers
-Infernal Affairs trilogy
-Assembly
-Curse of the Golden Flower
-Initial D (the Hong Kong film)
-Secret (Jay Chou)

>>8837531
What about beginning of the Great Revival?

>>8837548
didn't watch it yet. The last "new" one I've watched was the Rush Hour 3 I think.
Seeing Jackie Chan as an old man makes me kinda sad.

>>8837614
from what I've heard, it's a really shitty film. it had horrible reviews within China, whilst Founding of a Republic was much better recieved.

>>8837616
According to Wikipedia, critics were very uh, critical of it, but I thought was great.
It’s worth a watch. It’s Jackie Chan, but not as you know him.

>>8837595
>Kung Fu Hustle

One of my favorite films ever.

>House of Flying Daggers
Meh, I can't say I cared for this one. It's cool looking and all but the plot sucks.

Oh and don't forget Flying Tiger Hidden Dragon.

>>8837616
Watch Shinjuku Incident - you get to see an old Jackie Chan fuck a Russian whore in Japan. You don't see any dick though, sadly.

before someone mentions my homosexuality, I browse /fit/ and /jp/

Hey /jp/, how do you feel about Corean movies?

Can seriously, does anyone here know of any good Japanese movies from the past few decades, that aren't by that horror guy?

>>8837625
Yeah, Kung Fu Hustle is hilariously awesome. Better than God of Cookery, which was good too. But Kung-Fu Hustle beats it.
And you’re right, I watched House of Flying Daggers years ago, and can’t really recall much of the plot. I do recall some strong images though.

>>8837631
before being a standard film actor, Jackie Chan started off in "yellow films" (i.e. pornos).

from Wikipedia:
>Due to the commercial failures in his early ventures into films and trouble finding stunt work, in 1975 Chan starred in a comedic adult film, All in the Family, which features Jackie Chan's first and possibly only nude sex scene filmed to date. It is also the only film he has made to date that did not feature a single fight scene or stunt sequence.

A screenshot from Jackie's first porno film:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jackie_Chan_All_in_Family1.jpg

>>8837620
You know your stuff good for not being even Chinese.

>>8837638
i remember watching some corean movie about middle ages or some shit. they had nice armor and clothes there.

>>8837638
>Brotherhood of war
"You told me you would be back, what are you doing heeere !?"
I fucking cried in the end of the movie, and this fucking music during the last battle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj0sDOGeQVw

As far as I know, Japanese cinema and television drama is overall bad, but they’re famous for horror. I don’t watch horror.
Korea has their television dramas, and thriller films. Horror, too.
China is mostly costume dramas.
Taiwan doesn’t have such a category. Some drama series, but compared to Korean series they’re low budget and aren’t really watched abroad.

>>8837595

If you like Stephen Chow, you must watch A Chinese Odyssey, God of Gambling, Fight Back to School and all his other works.

>>8837756
The Japanese are famous for horror insofar as they have one good horror director.

That guy whose movies keep getting bastardized by soulless American remakes.

Are we limited to Sinosphere movies? I'm curious what you think about movies from Southeast Asia aka Mugen territory.

>>8837812
I've never seen any films from Southeast Asia. No Bollywood either.

Why, do they make anything decent there?

>>8837812
I remember seeing a (modern) thai movie on the tv about muay thai fights and whatnot. I don't remember much of it, but at least it had cool fight scenes.

What would Meiling's favorite Kung Fu movies be?

I do
especially when its mixed with traditional chinese music
godd example is Kung Fu Hustle

>>8837638
>Korean movies.

>>8839605
That looks more like Chinese movies.

I can't be the only one to have watched this.

Does /jp/ like Indonesian films with punching Indonesian men?

>>8839663
I didn't know that the Indonesians made movies.

>>8833070
Hell yes I love me some wire-fu. Crouching tiger hidden dragon, Hero, House of flying daggers, Five deadly venoms, The Evil cult etc. That shit is bananas.

>>8839641
listen to the theme /jp/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qil1-hg9d8

ZEB-AH-RUH, ZEB-AH-RUH

>>8839791
goddamit, i love those toku-shows OPs, they sound so much like soviet songs and stuff.

>>8839663

Funded and directed by foreigners

>>8833070
that's a pretty long potato peeler

So /jp/

Was Broken sword right? Was Nameless right? Was Qin Shi Huang right?

Was a united China worth all of that bloodshed?

>>8840186
Let me reword that for you.

>Was Mao Zedong right? Was Chiang Kai-shek right?

>Was dividing China in two, Communist and Republican, worth all of that bloodshed?

Depending who you ask, bloodshed for anything can be worthless, or can be justified. There is no right answer, only opinions.

>>8840186
Who cares. Communist China is awful anyway.
Seriously Yimou went from Raise the Red Lantern to this? What a shame.
Even if I like Hero.

>>8840614
>Seriously Yimou went from Raise the Red Lantern to this? What a shame.
You mean you’re hating on Zhang Yimou because his newer films aren’t rebellious enough?
Typical westerner

>>8841822
Rebellious or not, he just lost his edge.

Blind Shaft was great. There was also that movie about a police officer who investigated a string of murders and ended up being a suspect himself. I can't remember its name, though.

Master of the Flying Guillotine is the greatest film ever.

Also, is that old tv drama CCTV made of Romance of the Three Kingdoms any good?

>>8841890
Found it:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342778/

>>8841890
>>8841986
This sounds interesting. Going to download it and watch it tonight, if I find it.

Up

>>8845704
I’m afraid Up is not a Chinese film. Up is a 2009 American computer animated film I have not seen yet.

There’s also Up!, which I have seen. It’s a lewd 70’s film about Hitler who escaped to California and practices SM or or something in a castle. He’s killed.
There’s a naked lady as a narrator.

do not recommend