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Cynical Optimist · Joined: 26 Feb 2006 Location: S.E. Korea

I can't think of many, but maybe some of you can help out.
Any good (or even just decent) films about Westerners living in Asia?
thanks!
(please no van dam movies! Evil or Very Mad

)

DanielP · Joined: 25 Nov 2006

The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise

The Karate Kid Part II (well, DanielSan's visiting Laughing

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Matt_22 · Joined: 22 Nov 2006

the beach

i think the movie sucks, but the eye candy is great. imo, it's laughably ironic what's happened to phi phi since that movie was released.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I think "Iron and Silk" was made into a movie.

captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

The Chinese Box, starring Jeremy Irons. He's in Hong Kong, a newspaper writer/phographer/sort of freelancer, living in a small apartment (his buddy lives with him for a bit, thrown out of his apt/out of a job, sad story, they drink...). He has a crush on a sort of 'rich man's trophy wife', who has the hots for him. Finally, they do it. He has his big pants! He leaves her to.....

tomwaits · Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Location: PC Bong

I was thinking of Return to Paradise where Vince Vaughn has to go back and get a pal out of a Malaysian prison. Set mostly in NY though...

Hot off the press is The Painted Veil set and filmed in China and a lot of films go into Shanghai glory years,,

Aside from war flivcks (or prison ones) really it's funny there aren't a lot more----wasn't there a movie called Ex-pat about waygook in Korea? Must have been a total bomb...

Son Deureo! · Joined: 30 Apr 2003

The Spanish Apartment and The Dreamers are both pretty decent, and involve a lot of screwing.

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

7 years in tibet

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:14 pm Post subject:

Lost in Translation

Hightop · Joined: 11 Jun 2003

Rogue Trader is pretty good.

kat2 · Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Location: Busan, South Korea

Mr. Baseball!!

Demonicat · Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Location: Suwon

Volunteers with John Candy and Tom Hanks (cult, camp, and great)

Okibum · Joined: 28 Jul 2006

Empire of the Sun. It stars a young Christian Bale who is a young British boy captured by the Japanese and lived in a Japanese concentration camp in China.

albazalba · Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Location: Hongdae

Welcome to Dongmakgul has an American living in a small Korean town in the mountains during the Korean war. Pretty funny movie, except for the end.

Benicio · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:17 pm Post subject:

City of Ghosts- written/directed by and starring Matt Dillon with James Caan & Natasha McElhone. Set in Cambodia.
Great f***ing movie!

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0164003/