Asian cinema series

Since I was quite small I have been a very big affiliate of cinema; so have most people you can say. I guess the difference is that I watched movies constantly. Whenever I was not studying, playing tennis, practising piano or being mischievous, I was watching movies. The habit pretty much died down when I came back to live in Spain. Back when I was in England we were fully signed up to Sky service so I had access to anything and everything all the time. Back in Pamplona we didn't　and regular TV sucked so my interest decreased to an almost zero.

Once again I travelled to live in the UK, to Loughborough especifically. Once there, apart from being immersed in a complete free environment of personal fulfillment, there was something called DC++. It was a sort of napster network program that you would use within the University radius and it gave you access to anybody who would want to share their file there. So again I was caught up in the habit of watching anything and everything that was available. This came incredibly useful on after going out days when we would enjoy the beer-pizza-movie plan in student halls.

Through watching an incredible amount of movies you get to appreciate certain aspects that are nowadays decreasing at constant speed. With this I am obviously refering to the low quality of todays movies and the wrong direction they are taking. This will probably be discussed some other day. In this post I want reivindicate the less known but much higher quality of asian cinema. For many years, while big productors were laughing over at the other side of the world, asian cinema has been cultivating many features of their on-screen performances. We have seen but the tip of incredible star actors and directors that have gone through their ranks as only the ones that sign up for american movies are actually recognised.

In this Asian cinema series I will cover movies that I have long enjoyed and wish to share it with more people. I can say with certainty that I have already tried this with many friends, the ones who gave asian cinema a chance, ended up loving it, mostly. The rest of people who didn't want to listen, well I guess you are stuck with what you have, and everybody knows that's far from anything good.

" Even with my eyes wide open I can't see a thing" - Zatoichi