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

For the few that haven't yet seen it (!) BATTLE ROYALE is on SCI FI at 22:00 on Tuesday 18th April and repeated on SCI FI at 01:40 on Friday 21st April.

And AUDITION also gets some screenings on SCI FI at 23:35 on Tuesday 11th April, and is repeated on SCI FI at 02:00 on Monday 17th April.

Jesus Christ, you UK-ians are damn lucky!

Rarely do channels here in the States show subbed foreign films. There's one channel that's subscription only, I had it for the first three months of my satellite (then it disappeared), Showtime Extremes that does show Japanese films often (none of them horror though), I saw Onmyoji 2 and part of Kunoichi, and it's also where I first saw Ichi the Killer (I actually recorded it with the DVR and kept it for several months until my dad accidently deleted it... *grr*).

But if a regular channel here showed a subtitled movie (which I've never seen happen), I can guarantee that the station would be receiving calls from enraged ignorants everywhere. A year ago I was stoked when I heard the USA channel would air Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; I was less than thrilled when I started watching it, and it was dubbed. What a shocker. I just couldn't watch it: the dub was just so bad... I turned it off and went on the computer :-P

You people are just lucky. I know that channel 4 over there showed Ring and Ring 2 the day before The Ring twO came out.... Just the way things work I guess.

Am I jealous? HELL YEAH!!! :snigger:

Filmfour Weekly are showing Untold Scandal (the Korean version of Dangerous Liaisons) every night for the next week, at 12 p.m.

FilmFour subscribers can see Shinya Tsukamoto's Vital on Tuesday 11th April at midnight. Goody!

You're really lucky guys. I'm really jealous!!!

Yeah me too - i used to have FilmFour but it went crap for a while with way too many repeats once you'd seen a week of it that was it for a month. Now it seems to be a much more varied line up of films.

They showed Graveyard of Honour last night. Not sure if it was the Miike of Fukusaku version tho.

TONIGHT ON BRAVO!

IMPRINT - Takashi Miike's entry to the Masters of Horror.

11:30 Bravo
12:30 Bravo +1

I thought this was worth mentioning, because it could make a serious difference to UK viewers. I know Mandi & Alex will be pleased to hear, this because they cancelled their subscription ages ago and have occasionally regretted it. FilmFour will be a free channel from July, available to everybody with digital television. I'm a subscriber, so I got a letter this morning, but I thought several people on here would want to know. If you've already got digital, then you'll get FilmFour for free from July. They're also starting at 3 p.m. rather than 6.

As I've just discovered, there will now be advert breaks, which is a bit of an arse. Channel 4 are pretty good with their ad break in films though, so let's hope they do it as well as possible. It's not perfect, but many of the films are still absolutely essentially viewing, even with breaks.

That's what I figured. It's still the best movie channel available, so I'll happily sit through the ad breaks.