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Re: 1990s Far East Bracket
« Reply #1070 on: May 28, 2011, 03:43:20 PM »
I'm taking Kamikaze Taxi vs. Buddha Bless America for my next pairing.

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For anyone who's interested, I weeded through the current list of second round movies, and here's a cleaned up version:

AVAILABLE FROM NETFLIX

God of Gamblers 2  (Wong Jing, 1991, Hong Kong)
God of Gamblers 3  (Wong Jing, 1991, Hong Kong)
Rice People  (Rithy Panh, 1994, Cambodia)
Village of Dreams  (Yoichi Higashi, 1996, Japan)
The Wedding Banquet  (Ang Lee, 1993, Taiwan)

UNAVAILABLE FROM NETFLIX

Blush  (Li Shaohong, 1994, China)
Cageman  (Chi Leung 'Jacob' Cheung, 1992, Hong Kong)
Good Men, Good Women  (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1995, Taiwan)
Hana-bi  (Takeshi Kitano, 1997, Japan)
Stage Door  (Kei Shu, 1996, Hong Kong)
The Strange Tale of Oyuki  (Kaneto Shindo, 1992, Japan)

Reminder: When choosing a match-up, please pick one black and one blue film.

How great is it that we're down to about 6 more unassigned verdicts for this round!

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Re: 1990s Far East Bracket
« Reply #1071 on: May 28, 2011, 03:48:56 PM »
Now that I have no excuses, I will write up my long overdue verdict this week. I'd be happy to take another, pending availability of film.

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Re: 1990s Far East Bracket
« Reply #1072 on: May 28, 2011, 04:15:15 PM »
How great is it that we're down to about 6 more unassigned verdicts for this round!

Until pix delivers more resurrections anyway. Maborosi!

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Re: 1990s Far East Bracket
« Reply #1073 on: May 28, 2011, 04:24:43 PM »
How great is it that we're down to about 6 more unassigned verdicts for this round!

Very cool.

ps. Thanks for weeding!  ;D
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Re: 1990s Far East Bracket
« Reply #1074 on: June 01, 2011, 04:09:39 PM »
Can I take Rice People vs Blush for my next match up?

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Re: 1990s Far East Bracket
« Reply #1075 on: June 01, 2011, 09:58:55 PM »
I own Good Men, Good Women, so I should probably take that.

And. . . God of Gamblers 3, I guess.
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Re: 1990s Far East Bracket
« Reply #1076 on: June 06, 2011, 03:45:38 PM »
Since I like early Ang Lee I think I'll go for The Wedding Banquet and The Strange Tale of Oyuki for my next match-up.

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Re: 1990s Far East Bracket
« Reply #1077 on: June 06, 2011, 04:31:31 PM »
I'm going to take God of Gamblers 2 and Hana-bi.

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Just to stay organized, here's an updated list of unassigned movies:

AVAILABLE FROM NETFLIX

Village of Dreams  (Yoichi Higashi, 1996, Japan)

UNAVAILABLE FROM NETFLIX

Cageman  (Chi Leung 'Jacob' Cheung, 1992, Hong Kong)
Stage Door  (Kei Shu, 1996, Hong Kong)

Reminder: When choosing a match-up, please pick one black and one blue film.

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One pair left and a remainder.
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Re: 1990s Far East Bracket
« Reply #1078 on: June 07, 2011, 07:47:55 AM »
While there's 1 remaining unassigned match-up (+resurrections) in Round 2, there are 21 assigned match-ups that need verdicts. A couple of these belong to people I haven't seen around in awhile.

Not One Less vs. Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald - Emiliana
Vive L'Amour vs. Adrenaline Drive - Thor
God of Cookery vs. Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker - Dave the Viewer
After Life vs. Little Cheung - FifthCityMuse
A Brighter Summer Day vs. Passage to Buddha - Melvil
Chungking Express vs. Swallowtail Butterfly - Gobman
Flowers of Shanghai vs. Jubaku: Spellbound - worm@work
Princess Mononoke vs. Lost and Found - Sam the Cinema Snob
Seventeen Years vs. Country Teachers - Tequila
The Hole vs. The Days - duder
Like Grains of Sand vs. Woman Sesame Oil Maker - flieger
Shanghai Triad vs. Dr. Akagi - Beavermoose
Eat Drink Man Woman vs. One Evening After The War - matt tmw
Dreams vs. Midori - BlueVoid
Rainclouds over Wushan vs. Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl - roujin
Fist of Legend vs. Your Place or Mine - ProperCharlie
Sonatine vs. The Bird People of China - Bill Thompson
Rice People vs. Blush - smirnoff
Good Men, Good Women vs. God of Gamblers 3 - sdedalus
The Wedding Banquet vs. The Strange Tale of Oyuki - Bondo
God of Gamblers 2 vs. Hana-bi - tinyholidays

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Re: 1990s Far East Bracket
« Reply #1079 on: June 07, 2011, 10:34:33 AM »
While there's 1 remaining unassigned match-up (+resurrections) in Round 2, there are 21 assigned match-ups that need verdicts. A couple of these belong to people I haven't seen around in awhile.

Here here.  If there are some posters that have picks in but they have not been active or logged in for more then 2 months, can we maybe throw them back in the pot?  I am stuck trying to take a match up at the moment until next round as I just can not find any of the titles left to watch.
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