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recommended movie titles from guidebooks

JAPAN

• Appleseed (2004)

• Battle Royal (2000)

• Dark Water (2002)

• Ichi the Killer (2001)

• Kamikaze Taxi (1995)

• Minbo no Onna (1992)

• Marusa

• Osaka Story (1994)

KOREA

• • Old Boy (2003)

  • Bittersweet Life (2005)

  • Peppermint Candy (1999)

  • With Girl of Black Soil (2007).

  • Silmido (2003)

  • Painted Fire (2002)

  • Samaria (2004)

  • Sopyonje (1993)

  • Mandala (1981)

  • My Sassy Girl (2001)

  • My Wife is a Gangster (2001)

  • A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

  • Friend (2001)

  • King & the Clown (2005)

  • Shiri (1999)

  • Memories of a Murder (2003)

  • JSA (2001)

  • Taegukgi (2004)

  • The Host (2006)

CHINA

• • Beijing Bicycle (2000)

  • Unknown Pleasure (2002)

  • Devils on the Doorstep (1999)

  • The Making of Steel (1996)

  • Hero (2002)

  • House of Flying Daggers (2004)

  • The Promise (2005)

  • Yellow Earth (1984)

  • Red Sorghum (1985)

  • Ju Dou (1990)

  • The Story of Qiu Ju (1991)

  • Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

  • To Live (1994)

  • Shanghai Triad (1995)

  • The Blue Kite (1993)

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recommended literature from guidebooks

JAPAN

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KOREA

War Trash (2004)

Native Speaker (1996)

Appointment with My Brother (2002)

Still Life with Rice (1997)

The Gingko Bed (1996)

??A Dwarf Launches a Little Ball (1976)

The Descendants of Cain (1997)