Foreign Filmmakers and Films of course

Miakal

Name your favorite foreign filmakers and films.

I will later.

Maybe.

One

Foreign films - Infernal Affairs (Chinese movie) (US version is call the Departed i think)
Director: Wai Keung Lau, Alan Mak
Producer: Wai Keung Lau, Nansun Shi, John Chong
Screenwriter: Alan Mak, Felix Chong

and this is what the story is about...
A cop goes undercover as a gangster while, simultaneously, a gangster infiltrates the police force, pretending to be a cop. These two sleeper agents live underground for a decade before a series of mistakes clues in all the wrong people as to what's going on and each mole is ordered to root out the double agent--which in both cases happens to be themselves. Torn between conflicting father figures--an avuncular, paranoid gang boss and a morally comprised police superintendent--the two moles slowly feel the net tighten like an icy hand around their necks. Juggling idenities, always one mistake from a bullet in their head, and seduced by the attractions of their cover idenities, both men slowly unravel, battering themselves bloody against the bars of their own personal hells, while their souls ice over. (thanks to Yahoo.com)

another one is Battle Royale (Jap movie)
Directed by: Kinji Fukasaku
Writing credits: Kenta Fukasaku, Koushun Takami (novel)

and the story is about...
At the dawn of the new millennium, Japan is ina a state of near-collapse. Unemployment is at an all-time high, and violence amongst the nations youth is spiralling out of control. With school children boycotting their lessons and physically abusing their teachers, a beleaguered and near-defeated government decides to introduce a radical new measure: the Battle Royale Act Overseen by their former teacher, Kitano ('Beat' Takeshi) and requiring that a randomly chosen school class be taken to a deserted island and forced to fight each other to the death, the Act dictates that only one pupil be allowed to survive the punishment. He or she will return, not as the victor, but as the ultimate proof of the lengths to which the government are prepared to go to curb the tide of juvenile disobedience.(Summary written by Killer-40 @ http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/plotsummary)

One

and here are people who stars in the film Departed (US version of the chinese movie Infernal Affaris)

Matt Damon
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jack Nicholson
Mark Wahlberg

Spinoff90

Why did you have to mention the American version? In typical retarded Hollywood fashion they are going to butcher a good foreign film. First they are changing it to Boston Police and Irish American gangs and then to make things worse they don't even get Irish actors. They get crap like Leonardo DiCaprio. And then it gets better with Brad and Jen producing it. They can't get marriage right and now they won't get producing a movie right. At least movies like The Grudge that were also complete garbage compared to the foreign versions tried to get some of the original crew involved. Or at least had one asian in the movie.

The Infernal Affairs trilogy is not only my favorite forgeign trilogy but one of my favorite trilogies ever. It is right up there with stuff like Lord Of The Rings. Andy Lau has taken over the spot of being my favorite Hong Kong actor. I still love Jackie but other than New Police Story which was great all he has been doing are American movies and cameos in movies like the Twins Effect. And then you add the actor I consider second best right now Tony Leung. So with my two current favorite Hong Kong actors in it then it couldn't get much better right? Wrong. You also have Anthony Wong and Eric Tsang to add even more great starpower. Then for a small part of the first movie and the second one you have Edison Chen and Shawn Yue to play the younger Andy Lau and Tony Leung characters. The cast is amazing.

Miakal

It's being directed by Martin Scorsese isn't it?

It might not be up to the original but it can't be that bad.

One

i don't know man..cause sometimes a remake of a foreign blows..so its a tough call

HellKat

Movie: La Femme Nikita, The Professional (was done for US audience, but never was in the theatre)

Director: Luc Besson - this French director does great violent flicks, which both of these are.

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Disco Raheem

Don't watch many foreign films, but two that I've really loved were Hana-Bi and City of Gods.

Spinoff90

And Unleased/Danny The Dog is looking good too