Thread: Hollywood be gone!

This is a thread for all things film and TV related that doesn't come from Hollywood. Here are a few of my favs.



Directed by Chan Wook Park and released in 2003, this graphic Korean film is set in the present day and follows Oh Dae-Su as he is mysteriously imprisoned in a mundane apartment for 15 years. After his sentence, he's suddenly released and goes about searching for answers... and venegence.

This film is dark, brutal and beautiful. Park directs with slick visual flair and as the plot unfolds the viewer is forced, through shock, to question their perception of reality, vengeance and revenge.

Great performances by involved help place this film as one of my all time, top ten.

10/10

Directed by the notorious, Japanese, Takashi Miike. Audition is a film that lures you in with the false promise of a mundane love story, only to rip your preconceptions apart come the final act.

Starring Shigeharu Aoyama and Asami Yamazaki, the film tells the story of a man who having recently lost his wife, is convinced by a friend to hold auditions to find a new partner. The auditons prove succsessful and he falls for a beautiful girl who turns out to have a darker side.

Utterly compellying in that this film dares to driv the viewer to near sleep induced boredum, before punching them in the face. It will leave you starring at a blank screen for long after the credits roll.

10/10

Love both of those films, LAdy Vengeance is my favourite though. The original 'Eye' was good also, and I really liked 'open your eyes' which was the original vanilla sky, it was vastly superior to the Tom Cruise remake.