Best Asian Movies 1998
Best Asian Movies 1998
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- DirectorJoan ChenStarsXiaolu LiLopsangZheng QianYoung teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
- DirectorXiaoshuai WangStarsTong WangYu ShiTao GuoTwo young farm workers, who like millions of others, leave their village to seek their fortunes in the city. Each chose a vastly different path to make it and become embroiled in misunderstandings, gangster brawls and police raids.
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsGong LiFengyi ZhangZhou SunIn pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsNanako MatsushimaMiki NakataniYûko TakeuchiA reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsArata IuraErika OdaSusumu TerajimaAfter death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.
- DirectorPinyo RoothumStarsShahkrit YamnarmRay MacDonaldTata YoungIn a College for the Arts of some sort, 5 freshmen students (Prim, Foon, Chompoo, Art, and Puen) met randomly during the ceremony on the first day of class. One day, the freshmen were required to donate blood. They learned then that the 5 of them have the same blood type, O-negative. Prim was into Interior Design. Art was into Photography. Prim was poor while Foon was rich. Art was not so poor while Puen was rich. Chompoo, in the middle. Both boys like Prim. Foon likes Puen. Prim also likes Puen but stepped back for Foon, who took her under her wings when Prims mother died. Puen agreed to date Foon to make Prim happy. This saddened Art. He then decided to move to the States to pursue his love for photography. Foon carried Puens child. Prim was heartbroken and planned to go to the States with Arts help. Foon realized that Puen loves Prim; she had an abortion. On Prims way to the airport, she heard Puen asking for blood donation on the taxis radio. She donated blood without Foon and Puen knowing. Years later, Foon and Puen got engaged. Puen became an art teacher in the university that they graduated. Because of regret and also as a way of asking for forgiveness from Prim, Foon made Prims art gallery dream come true. During the gallerys opening, Foon received a large photo of Prim and Art in the States, happy together. The movie ended with the The End part of a novel, written by Chompoo.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsMasahiro MotokiRenji IshibashiMakoA salaryman and yakuza are each sent by their bosses to a remote Chinese village but discover more than they expected.
- DirectorShunji IwaiStarsTakako MatsuSeiichi TanabeKazuhiko KatoIn spring, a young girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsHiroko ShimabukuroEriko ImaiTakako UeharaAfter her sudden death a teenage girl finds her father has uploaded her mind to computer form. With a rival corporation wishing to capture her the girl is uploaded to her boyfriend's laptop.
- DirectorHiroyuki NakanoStarsMorio KazamaMitsuru FukikoshiTomoyasu HoteiA noble young samurai searches for a thief who has stolen a precious treasure and killed one of his clansmen and meets an older samurai who tries to deter him from the violence of revenge.
- DirectorAtaru OikawaStarsMiho KannoMami NakamuraYoriko DôguchiA traumatized young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsShô AikawaTeruyuki KagawaYûrei YanagiA man enlists a friend to help him identify and exact revenge upon his daughter's murderer.
- DirectorNaoe GôzuStarsTomoyo HaradaAtsuro WatabeMiho KannoRica and Kengo have been living together for the past four years. It's been a very happy time for Rica; the only dark spot being an accident she caused during a shoot for a commercial in which Kengo's good friend, Shibata, nearly lost his life. The memory of this event weighs heavily on Rica's conscience. One night Kengo tells Rica that he has fallen in love with a charming but "inscrutable" woman named Hanako. Kengo moves out of their apartment and, although Rica is terribly hurt and confused, she cannot bring herself to hate Kengo. Nevertheless, she suffers a great deal as a result of their separation. She cannot believe her eyes when Hanako suddenly appears at her door, but this is not nearly as baffling as when Kengo also turns up at Rica's apartment looking for his new lover. For a while this threesome co-habit in a kind of Ménage à Trois, but then Hanako starts staying away for nights on end - without telling either of them where she goes. Kengo soon tires of the situation; Rica, however, decides to find out what's going on once and for all.
- DirectorHur Jin-hoStarsHan Suk-kyuShim Eun-haShin GooHahn Suk-Kyu suffers from a fatal disease. He meets Shim Eun-Ha and falls in love with her. Will their love story have a tragic ending?
- DirectorJeong-hyang LeeStarsShim Eun-haLee Sung-jaeAhn Sung-kiTwo strangers with very little in common, find themselves forced to live together.
- DirectorSang-Jin KimStarsBo-sung KimMin-jung KweonPark In-hwanA pair of tough, unconventional cops take on the underworld.
- DirectorTae-gyun KimStarsAhn Jae-wookChoi Ji-wooLee Kyoung-youngA reporter and a photographer work together at a weekly magazine and navigate their way through a series of misunderstandings on their way to falling in love.
- DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsJi-eun LeeHye Eun LeeAhn Jae-moStreetwise Jin-a moves into a boarding house run by a small, close-knit family. But her unacceptable behavior threatens to destroy them all.
- DirectorKwang-Mo LeeStarsLee InAhn Sung-kiYoo-Jung BaeA story of two 13-year-old boys in a small country village during the last days of the Korean War. Sungmin's father gets a job at US army camp through his daughter's American boyfriend, and the family gets richer. But Changhee's father has been long-lost and his mother can't even afford one meal a day for her children. One day, the boys peep into a deserted mill-house which is unofficially used for prostitution, and find out Changhee's mother with a GI soldier. Changhee sets fire to the place and runs away. Months later, Sungmin hears a rumor that his best friend has been killed by a group of angry American soldiers and makes an empty grave with other boys. A year later, Sungmin's father gets fired for stealing things from the camp. Sangmin goes to Changhee's grave to bid farewell and the family leaves the village.
- DirectorOxide Chun PangStarsSanya KunakornNattarika ThumpridanunSuchao PongwilaiEverything seems to be going well for Jiab and Wan, a young couple looking forward to their impending marriage. All that changes, however, when Wan is struck by a car and is brought to the hospital near death. When Jiab goes to a temple to pray, a mysterious monk tells him that in her past life, Wan murdered five people, and now is fated to die early in this life. To undo her bad karma and save her life, Jiab must even the balance by preventing five other people from being killed. The clock is now ticking, and Wan's life is slipping away...
- DirectorGlen GoeiStarsAdrian PangMedaline TanPierre PngHock, an ordinary underachiever, discovers disco when his favorite kung fu movie is replaced by "Forever Fever," a low-budget Saturday Night Fever (1977) knockoff. Amazingly, the movie's main character comes to life and becomes Hock's guardian angel.
- DirectorT.L. TayStarsJack NeoMark LeeHenry ThiaA boisterous, on-the-nose comedy about three cash-strapped Singaporeans living in government projects: Chew Wah-keong (scripter Jack Neo), a married-with-kids 40-year-old who's permanently up to his ears in bills; Ong (Mark Lee), a longhaired doofus who renovates apartments; and pudgy, geeky-looking Hui (Henry Thia), a waiter at a sidewalk cafe.
- DirectorPhilip LimStarsMelody ChenCaleb GohHwee Sze LimTwo highschool girls try to find their true loves among the guys who are wooing them.
- DirectorGarin NugrohoStarsSarah AzhariDeni ChristantraChristine HakimThe Indonesian society is seen through a middle-aged lady's eyes in her daily encounters with the street children who work and live off the harsh and sleazy world of adults.