 | Ashes of Time Redux
Buy new: $27.49 / Used from: $5.82 The quintessential Wong Kar Wai film: completely incoherent and chaotic if not fluent in Chinese language and culture -- best reason to watch a foreign film yet.
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 | Chungking Express - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $20.75 Cute and sexy in an enigmatic way: Wong Kar Wai made this movie to escape the burn-out that the never-ending "Ashes of Time" project was causing him.
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 | Fallen Angels (Special Edition)
Buy new: $27.49 / Used from: $40.84 Great ambience and sexy cinematography, but the two leads are a disappointment: originally meant to be part of "Chungking Express."
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 | Hard Boiled
Buy used from: $1.49 This is John Woo's final Hong Kong film, and his very best film.
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 | Seven Samurai - 3 Disc Remastered Edition (Criterion Collection Spine # 2)
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $21.91 Every list of Asian cinema must have this classic tale of honor and sacrifice in feudal Japan.
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 | Ran - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $24.95 Kurosawa's version of "King Lear" is more haunting than the Shakespearean version.
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 | Yojimbo - Remastered Edition (Criterion Collection Spine #52)
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $18.62 Lone samurai walks into town to clean it up.
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 | To Live
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.00 Zhang Yimou's best work explores one man's struggle to survive in the chaos of the Japanese invasion, Chinese civil war, and Cultural Revolution.
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 | Suzhou River
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $10.25 A strange and disturbing love story Chinese-style
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 | Princess Mononoke
Buy new: $18.49 / Used from: $8.17 Miyazaki's combines brilliant animation with social conscience with fun characters in a creative plot: the Japanese film version of Roald Dahl.
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 | Castle in the Sky
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $14.95 Miyazaki's most ambitious work involves a race to find a lost civilization with God-like technology.
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 | Farewell My Concubine
Buy used from: $12.98 Wow, the best Chinese film of all time
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 | Oldboy
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $10.95 Korea outdoes Hollywood in this twisted action tale
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 | All About Lily Chou-Chou
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $9.92 A disturbing and accurate look at Japanese youth: God help us all
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 | Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $19.49 Very long, very old, and very good
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