Directors The Ultimate ASIAN Film Tournament (1 Viewer)

[Ted Lee]

okay...stupid question. how do i vote and what does "abstain - no xxx" mean? :b

 

[MartinTeller]

Just pick your favorite in each bracket.

Abstain means you can't vote because you haven't seen one or both of the films. "No xxx" just indicates the one you haven't seen, you don't have to do that, but some people like to.

 

[Ted Lee]

Enter the Dragon
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abstain neither
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abstain no Nausicaä
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abstain no Tokyo Drifter
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abstain no i live in fear
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abstain neither

 

[Bill McA]

Ted, you to have seen both movies in each bracket in order to vote in that bracket.

abstain - no OUATIC
Ikiru
abstain - no Nausicaä, have the DVD of Laputa but haven't watched it yet
abstain - no Drifter
abstain - no Fear
abstain - no Ashes, but love Throne

 

[MartinTeller]

What Bill said. We're on the honor system here. Unless the tourney runner states otherwise, it's expected that you will abstain from a matchup if you haven't seen both films.

 

[Cary T]

Once Upon a Time in China
Nausicaä (Nausicaa is my second favorite Miyazaki)
abstain (no To Live, too bad I love Ikiru)
A Better Tomorrow
abstain (neither)
Ashes of Time

 

[Jim_K]

Ted

The way this works is that you vote for the better/or favorite of the two films facing each other in a bracket.

If you haven't seen both films or you've seen one but not the other you should abstain.

The reason people name the films they haven't seen when they abstain is that during the first round I'll be tossing out films that few voters have seen. This is optional of course but it helps me determine what the really obscure films are.

 

[Angelo.M]

Enter the Dragon

To Live (tough match-up; Ikiru great as well; Criterion in 2004, right?)

Throne of Blood (but I love Ashes of Time)

 

[Lew Crippen]

Ikiru
Throne of Blood—sigh on of my favorites will no doubt bit the dust in the very first round.

 

[Ted Lee]

thx guys...this is kinda fun..sorry i'm such a newbie. i will update my prior post.

 

[Brook K]

Wish I could have gotten one of the autos to get A Scene At The Sea in, but I guess I'd probably be the only one voting on it.

Enter The Dragon (OUATIC is good but no contest here)
Ikiru (To Live is outstanding, but Ikiru is one of my favorite films)
abstain (Like Laputa very much but no Nausicaa)
A Better Tomorrow (very tough, big fan of both)
abstain (neither)
abstain (I've only seen the first 3-5 min of Ashes of Time. The DVD is so awful I just couldn't keep watching it. WORST DVD EVER)

Bill, I had a free pass to The Singing Detective but since I've heard absolutely nothing about it even though its coming out this weekend, I was afraid its a stinker the studio is just sneaking out and I didn't want to waste my rare night out on a bad movie, so we used the pass and then snuck into Kill Bill instead. Plus I REALLY wanted to see Kill Bill again and also wanted Shelley to see it. And I'll probably wait for the mega-set DVD rather than the vol. 1 edition, so it might be awhile before I get to see it again.

 

[Bill McA]

Brook, I'm very much looking forward to The Singing Detective as I LOVE the BBC mini-series (got the DVD, the CD & the published script), I just hope that it does Potter's material justice.

The film seems to be on a very limited release...which means that it won't be playing anywhere near this hell-hole.

 

[Jim_K]

My votes
Enter the Dragon
Ikiru
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
A Better Tomorrow
Black Rain
Throne of Blood


Enter the Dragon over Once Upon a Time in China 5-2

Ikiru over To Live (1994) 5-1

Laputa: Castle in the Sky over Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds by default

A Better Tomorrow over Tokyo Drifter 3-0

Black Rain over I Live in Fear by default

Throne of Blood over Ashes of Time 3-1

next

Akira

vs.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

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Chungking Express

vs.

Happy Together

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Cure

vs.

Victim

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Red Lion

vs.

Yojimbo

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Street Fighter (1974)

vs.

Drunken Master (1978)

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High and Low

vs.

The Bad Sleep Well

 

[Ted Lee]

ack!

abstain no Tetsuo: The Iron Man
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abstain no Happy Together
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abstain neither
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abstain no Red Lion
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abstain no Street Fighter (1974)
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abstain neither

 

[MartinTeller]

Akira (don't like either one very much)
abstain (neither)
abstain (neither)
abstain (no Red Lion)
abstain (no Street Fighter)
abstain (no Bad Sleep Well)

 

[SteveGon]

Akira
Abstain - No HT.
Abstain - Neither.
Abstain - No RL.
Streetfighter
High and Low - Tough.

 

[Bill McA]

Tetsuo: The Iron Man - both great, but Tetsuo gets the edge
Happy Together
Cure
abstain - no Red Lion
abstain - seen neither
abstain - no Bad Sleep Well

 

[Cary T]

abstain (no Tetsuo)
Happy Together - Matching 2 Wong Kar-Wai's together!!! You're brutal.
abstain (neither)
abstain (no Red Lion)
Drunken Master
High and Low

 

[Angelo.M]

Akira
Chungking Express
Abstain
Yojimbo
Street Fighter (1974)
High and Low

 

[Simon_Lepine]

I'm afraid I'll have to abstain all too often in this tourney :b