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This film's a journey through the nightlife of Shibuya, Tokyo. The story focus on 3 highschool girls who make good money by selling their services to men, all sorts of men with all sorts of desires. It's a terrific film. Fascinating, emotional and with great acting. However, even though Bounce primarily deals with the backside of a harsh japanese society, it also serves as perfect tourist propaganda. The way it's shot and with its cool powerful music, it makes you wanna go to Tokyo immediately. Anyhow, Bounce's a film that I highly recommend. 8/10.

This one went straight to the top on my list of horrible korean comedy experience. I just can't find enough words for this crap. The top 3 Korean movies to not waste time nor money on are as following. 1, Taekwon girl 2, Jailbreaker 3, Married to the mafia

I'm normally a big fan of Korean film, even biased sometimes, but there are no loopholes for these movies. Especially this Taekwon girl which without a doubt is the worst Asian film I've ever seen. On behalf of Korean filmmaking, I'm truly ashamed.

...that has not already been said about this film? Ang Lee's tale of the green destiny exceeds all our conceptions of the Asian myth, such as the mystery of the East and the martial art techniques.

A complete masterpiece in all categories. 10/10

If you're a fan of Asian drama, a bit familiar with the Asian way of romance and overlook a few silly scenes and dialogues, you will most likely find "Love letter" irresistible. I did and it's one of my absolute favourite Asian drama/romance.

Director Shunji Iwai has created a beautiful and heartwarming piece of a story originally written by Jiro Asada. The latter also wrote another great Asian drama, the Korean "Failan", which I also highly recommend if you like "Love letter".

"Love letter" deals with many aspects of love throughout the film and is filled with beautiful scenery accompanied by nice piano. But the very best part of "Love letter" is saved for last, the unforgettable and final scene.

Indeed true romance...the Asian way.

This is one of the top 3, if not the best, Korean drama I've seen so far. I admit I was stunned by the beauty of Cecilia Cheung, but even though that might have had some effect on my objectivity, "Failan"'s still a very good film. The acting performances by Cheung and especially by Choi Min-sik are strong and believable.

In short, this is a drama of two persons, Kang-jae and Failan, who are married with each other, but never even meet. (check the DVD for the details.) Yet they share the same tragic fate. The saddest thing of this sad story is that you know that if the two characters would meet just once, everything would turn out ok.

The story is originally written by a Japanese, Jiro Asada, who also wrote the Japanese top hit "Love letter". Even though the story in "Failan" is different from "Love letter", some resemblance can be noticed in the structure of both films. And most of all, you get the same mix of sad and warm feelings in both. And that's why I really like "Failan". Because even though the film is entirely sad, it is also in a way warm and beautiful.

Maybe a bit more focus on the Failan character instead of the smalltime crook Kang-jae would be desirable. After all, the emotional part of the story does not begin until the appearance of Failan.

Korean film has improved enormously in the last few years. "Failan" is a good example and I highly recommend it. Overall rating 8,5.