UK TV Showings of Asian films (WAS: Sky Asia Extreme Season 2004)

FilmFour are also showing Kim Ki-Duk's BAD BOY next Tuesday at 12. I probably won't watch it, but it might be of interest to some.

Anyone with BBC4 can watch Takeshi Kitano in KIKUJIRO on Saturday.

Blurb reads: Comical road movie following the fortunes of a brash and opportunistic gangster who has been entrusted to deliver a young boy to the mother he has never met. En route, the unlikely pair encounter a series of strange characters and hilarious adventures. Director: Takeshi Kitano. Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Yusuke Sekiguchi, Kayoko Kishimoto, Yuko Daike, Kazuko Yoshiyuki (Subtitles, 1999, 3 Star)

BBC4: Saturday. 5 Feb, 21:00 (and repeated on 12 Feb at 00:30).

I love Kikujiro - superb movie cheers for the heads up. Despite one minor error of judgement early on in the film its practically flawless. The story is super cute and there's lots of fun to be had. My ultimate feel good movie.

Ah! been looking to see this one for a while. :-D

Gohatto: I recommend this film. Set your video or Tivo or make sure to watch it - just don't expect a neat ending as the film is essentially opaque and mysterious.

By the director of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence and Ai no Corrida. Takeshi Kitano, who also appears, is a great fan of the director's work.

Two Miike movies showing this week, Shinjuku Triad Society on tuesday and Gozu on friday both showing on Film Four for all those people in the UK.

Battle royale2 on Film Four(which is free to anyone who has sky all weekend )
at 12:15am tonight im gonna watch it and tape it since i've never watched it , im not expecting much anyway.

I only watched 45minutes of Battle Royale, I could not watch any more, it was so bad, it also annoyed me that they put things that worked in BR1 in the film but changed them. Like the rugby ball, did anyone else thing that was a lot like the photo in BR1, me and my friend did. This is a bit late now but Ring and Ring 2 were on channel4 last week, they were on at about midnight, unfortunately I missed Ring2.

Another FilmFour announcement:

Save the Green Planet - Tonight - 12:15AM

:cry: , I wish I had checked up on the website earlier, I missed both of these. Im not sure of the date yet but in July Filmfour are showing Ju-on (Movie version). And for anyone who missed it, I think A Tale of Two Sisters is on Filmfour again this month, sorry I cant find the date, as their website is not working at this moment.

Ok this is the coming schedule for filmfour's asian extreme films for the rest of this month (hope I havent missed any out):

Chaos: Monday 20
Tale of two sisters: Friday 17
Internal Affairs (Im not sure if this is asian extreme, but from Hong Kong) : Fri 10 Tues 28
Internal Affairs 2 :Friday 10 Wed 29

Excellent news! I just hope filmfour does a freebie weekend during that period, as I only have basic digital!

Sod's Law strikes again.... Still, in the past they do time their freeviews nicely for the good films!