Yellow Fever

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This is what cooped up guys who live in their mom’s basement and watch a lot of hentai have, while fantasizing about Asian women because they live in such a rural area that they’ve never actually met one. Hence, this category is for any and every Asian film.

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Azumi

A Bittersweet Life

Bullet in the Head

The Challenge

The Cove

Dark Water

The Forbidden Kingdom

Full Contact

I Come With the Rain

I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK

Kakuto

Kung Fu Hustle

Naked Killer

Ninja Assassin

Parade (2009)

Shadow Billionaire

Shaolin Soccer

Taking the Yellow out of the Yellow People

Thirst

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By Adam Lippe

Whenever there’s a genre parody or ode to a specific era of films, such as Black Dynamite’s mocking of Blaxploitation films or Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, the second half of Grindhouse, the danger is that the film might fall into the trap of either being condescending without any particular insight, or so faithful that it becomes the very flawed thing it is emulating.

Black Dynamite has nothing new to say about Blaxploitation films, it just does a decent job of copying what an inept [...]

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On Cold Fish:

Though the 16 year old me described the 1994 weepie Angie, starring Geena Davis as a Brooklyn mother raising her new baby alone, as “maudlin and melodramatic,” Roger Ebert, during his TV review, referring to the multitude of soap-operaish problems piling up on the titular character, suggested that it was only in Hollywood where Angie would get a happy ending. “If they made this movie in France, Angie would have shot herself.”

Well Cold Fish was made in Japan, where Angie would have shot herself and that would have been the happy ending.