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[ChronoGrl]

Gui si (Silk)

Solid little Chinese ghost movie. Good suspense, decent character piece, and the ghosts are nicely done. Not a perfect movie, but definitely worth a looksee. It definitely surprised me how much I enjoyed it.

3.5/5

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[roshiq]

Originally Posted by ChronoGrl

Gui si (Silk)

Solid little Chinese ghost movie. Good suspense, decent character piece, and the ghosts are nicely done. Not a perfect movie, but definitely worth a looksee. It definitely surprised me how much I enjoyed it.

3.5/5

I was looking for its dvd for quite a long time and lately I have found one at a dvd store but what a pity...it has no subtitle!:mad:

Three /
Three Extremes II (2002)

A horror anthology consisting of three segments by three directors from three countries.

Memories (Korea)
A man goes to a psychiatrist to try to remember what happened the day his wife disappeared from his life. Meanwhile, a woman wakes up and finds herself lying on a deserted road, having no idea how she got there in the first place. She tries to find her way home. Separately, they begin to regain their memories of what happened.

It's from the maker of A Tale of Two Sisters but this is mediocre at best with few decent shock tactics. At the beginning it looked pretty good but the end product left me unsatisfied.
C+

The Wheel (Thai)
The story deals about cursed puppets in a rural background. The weakest segment of this anthology.
C-

Going Home (Hong Kong)
While searching for his missing son, a cop, Wai, finds himself detained by his neighbor Yu in his apartment. Through Chinese medicine, Yu has been tending to the body of his dead wife for three years; apparently believing that his wife will revive in a day or two so they can go home together.

Comparing with the other two, this is the best overall of the bunch. It's not a typical creepy Asian piece for the most part, but despite the production values, the direction makes great use of its setting and limitations. This is a multi layered story but the sad thing is they only clarified the major one, not the other part that connected to a major character and also helped the beginning to start. Otherwise, it's the one that makes this collection worth watching.

**Spoiler**
what happened to the little boy? It seems the little girl was the couple's unborn child, but why could the little boy see her, and what happened to him? what did the photographer's studio have to do with the story?
**Spoiler end**
B+

Overall...: C+

[psycho d]

Cure (1997). Slowly paced psychological drama. Not really a thriller, but still quite enjoyable. The lead character is very well developed. The storyline is fine. The ending perplexed me a bit; not sure if it was just a fun and abrupt ending or if it had some subtle, symbolic, or abstruse (to me at least) significance. Seems it got some bad reviews for not being as incredible as Kurosawa's Kairo, which is silly. Definitely worth a watch. Ashe.
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[ChronoGrl]

Originally Posted by roshiq

I was looking for its dvd for quite a long time and lately I have found one at a dvd store but what a pity...it has no subtitle!:mad:

Three /
Three Extremes II (2002)

A horror anthology consisting of three segments by three directors from three countries.

Memories (Korea)
A man goes to a psychiatrist to try to remember what happened the day his wife disappeared from his life. Meanwhile, a woman wakes up and finds herself lying on a deserted road, having no idea how she got there in the first place. She tries to find her way home. Separately, they begin to regain their memories of what happened.

It's from the maker of A Tale of Two Sisters but this is mediocre at best with few decent shock tactics. At the beginning it looked pretty good but the end product left me unsatisfied.
C+

The Wheel (Thai)
The story deals about cursed puppets in a rural background. The weakest segment of this anthology.
C-

Going Home (Hong Kong)
While searching for his missing son, a cop, Wai, finds himself detained by his neighbor Yu in his apartment. Through Chinese medicine, Yu has been tending to the body of his dead wife for three years; apparently believing that his wife will revive in a day or two so they can go home together.

Comparing with the other two, this is the best overall of the bunch. It's not a typical creepy Asian piece for the most part, but despite the production values, the direction makes great use of its setting and limitations. This is a multi layered story but the sad thing is they only clarified the major one, not the other part that connected to a major character and also helped the beginning to start. Otherwise, it's the one that makes this collection worth watching.

**Spoiler**
what happened to the little boy? It seems the little girl was the couple's unborn child, but why could the little boy see her, and what happened to him? what did the photographer's studio have to do with the story?
**Spoiler end**
B+

Overall...: C+

I agree with you mostly on Three... Extremes II, though I actually liked The Wheel. I didn't think it was amazing or anything, but I was just fascinated by the Thai cultural folklore aspect of it. It was also fascinating to see the pure Thai rural life - I guess it caught my attention from that aspect. That's one of the things that I like about foreign films; even if the movie isn't that great, I enjoy just soaking up a culture that I haven't been exposed to very much.

I LOVED the third film, but I agree with you about the holes. I'm not sure if it was a bad translation, but that (what you mentioned in your spoiler) did NOT make sense to me at all and I thought that they could have done without it. Regardless, I particularly loved the ending to that film - it definitely caught me by surprise, which is always nice. :)

[roshiq]

Originally Posted by ChronoGrl

I LOVED the third film, but I agree with you about the holes. I'm not sure if it was a bad translation, but that (what you mentioned in your spoiler) did NOT make sense to me at all and I thought that they could have done without it. Regardless, I particularly loved the ending to that film - it definitely caught me by surprise, which is always nice. :)

Ditto...:)

Does a Porno count? lol. j/k last movie was Ringu.

[psycho d]

Rashomon (1950). A brilliant Kurosawa flick centering on the deceptive nature of man in the ever present need to be seen in the most favorable light possible. Toshiro marvelously performed his part with playful exuberance. Ashe.
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[psycho d]

Nang Nak (1999). Great flick about Thai folklore. The cinematography was at times rather breathtaking, appropraiately dark at other times. Not really a scary flick, at least for actual jump out of your seat scares. Instead it was scary in concept, or rather in its essence. i think the overall message about the potential evil of born of attachment was inspirational though wickedly dark. Ashe.
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[psycho d]

Retribution(2006). This flick from Kurasawa may actually approach the depths of fear and suffering explored in Kairo. In this movie, he seems to explore the fears of becoming insignificant after death. While the effects are at times almost cheesy, this did not detract from the film. The lead actor was perfectly cast as a gritty though committed detective, while his partner was splendidly grounded and stolid. The story was good, and when it seemed to come to an end, there was still much more to it. Overall, i really liked this one, though it may not be for everyone. Ashe.
d

[psycho d]

2LDK.. The scenes in this flick are like a series of coke cans, the first opened delicately , the rest opened after having been shaken up, where each subsequent can is shaken more than it predecessor, until the cans in the finale come straight out of a paint mixing machine. It then ends in poetry.
Ashe.
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