jump
to★★<Economist>:
"2023's best
movies" ★★<BFI>:
"greatest
films of all time" ★★<AFI>:
"greatest
American movies"★★<TIME>: "best
movies"★★<New
York Times>: "best
films "★★<IMDb>: "greatest
movies"★★<IMDb>: "top
movies"★★classic
movies
category
★★Asian
movies
achievements
|
"comment
Taiwan movies" both English and Chinese version ranks No.1 on Yandex Russia,
2024-3-31, 2024-3-26, 2024-3-1
|
comment Taiwan movies -
From 2016 to 2023,
Taiwanese movies obtained no good scores in
the Oscars
、
Cannes Festival、
Italian Venice Film Festival、
British Academic Film Award ...
( click to see statistics
)。
♣
Variety, 2024-2-16:
the Taiwan government over the past four years has
substantially changed the way it interacts with the entertainment industry - moving from a ministry-led bureaucracy to more of a funding and promotional
role... fewer Taiwanese commercially oriented films are enjoying success in
cinemas. Producers of these films have struggled to increase their sources of
revenue locally, through events, partnerships or sponsorship.
msn.com/en-us/money/other/taiwan-uses-democracy-diversity-as-film-industry-calling-card/ar-BB1imTM5
Patrick Frater
♣
Taiwan's talented directors
like
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
(侯孝賢) like to make "high art" movies, some of
them were or might be box office poison. Another director Tsai
Ming-liang on Variety (2024-2-16)
says
" I'm trying to change the idea of cinema. It can be like a portrait, or poetry
or a statue";
take his movie
"Abiding Nowhere" as an example,
"It does not have a story or a plot. There are no performance and no
language. "I'm not trying to tell you anything through script or
performance. It could be perfect for a gallery or museum". He said
on several occasions, commercial exhibitors have cancelled the screenings of his
films after just a single day.
msn.com/en-us/movies/news/taiwans-tsai-ming-liang-talks-creative-freedom-tiktok-and-box-office-disasters-in-future-none-of-my-films-will-have-a-script/ar-BB1inAhn
Patrick Frater
IMDb: Top Asian
Films of All Time (top 30), none of Taiwanese films was selected.
|
No.
1 |
No.
2 |
No.
3 |
No.
4 |
No.
5 |
6 |
7 |
|
|
Japan |
S. Korea |
Hong Kong
(China) |
India |
Iran |
Indonesia |
Thailand |
Taiwan |
|
12 films selected |
5 |
5 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
|
|
|
Rank |
films |
country |
|
1 |
|
S. korea |
|
2 |
|
India |
|
3 |
|
Iran |
|
4 |
|
Japan |
|
5 |
|
Japan |
|
6 |
|
Japan |
|
7 |
|
India |
|
8 |
|
Iran |
|
9 |
|
Japan |
|
10 |
|
Hong Kong |
|
11 |
|
Japan |
|
12 |
|
Hong Kong |
|
13 |
|
Iran |
|
14 |
|
Hong Kong |
|
15 |
|
India |
|
16 |
|
S. korea |
|
17 |
|
Indonesia |
|
18 |
|
Hong Kong |
|
19 |
|
Hong Kong |
|
20 |
|
S. korea |
|
21 |
|
S. korea |
|
22 |
|
Japan |
|
23 |
|
Japan |
|
24 |
|
Japan |
|
25 |
|
Japan |
|
26 |
|
Japan |
|
27 |
|
Thailand |
|
28 |
|
S. korea |
|
29 |
|
Japan |
|
30 |
|
Japan |
|
|
Only one Taiwan's film was selected into
<IMDb> "Greatest Chinese Movies of All Time"
|
<IMDb>
"Greatest Chinese Movies of All Time"
|
Hong Kong : 17 films
selected
2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 18, 20, 24, 25, 28, 29,
30, 31, 34 |
China: 13
selected
1, 3, 5, 10, 11, 13, 16, 21, 22, 23, 26, 32, 33 |
Taiwan: 1
selected
4 |
Before ROC moved to Taiwan: 2 selected
27, 35; US
co-producer 2
17, 19 |
|
1《活著》《To
Live 1994》 |
2《花樣年華》《In
the Mood for Love (2000)》 |
3《霸王別姬》《Farewell
My Concubine》1993 |
4《一一》《Yi
Yi (2000)
》 |
|
5《大紅燈籠高高掛》《RAISE
THE RED LANTERN》 |
6《甜蜜蜜》《Comrades,
Almost a Love Story》1996 |
7《重慶森林》《CHUNGKING
EXPRESS》
1994 |
8《葉問》 《Ip
Man (2008)
》 |
|
9《無間道》
《Infernal Affairs》2002 |
10
《臥虎藏龍》《CROUCHING
TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON》(China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, USA)
|
11《英雄》《Hero
(2002)
》 |
12《喋血雙雄》《The
Killer (1989)》 |
|
13《我的父親母親》《The
Road Home》1999 |
14《功夫》《Kung
Fu Hustle》2004 |
15《鎗神》《Hard
Boiled 1992》 |
16《一個都不能少》
《Not
One Less (1999)》
|
|
17《龍爭虎鬥》
《Enter
The Dragon》1973;
US, HK |
18《霍元甲》《
Fearless》2006 |
19《色戒》《Lust,
Caution》2007; (USA,
China, Taiwan) |
20 《警察故事》《POLICE
STORY》1985 |
|
21《十面埋伏》《House
of Flying Daggers》2004;
Chn, HK |
22《藍風箏》《The
Blue Kite》1993
禁片 |
23《盲井》《Blind
Shaft》 |
24《英雄本色》《A
Better Tomorrow 》1986 |
|
25《和你在一起》《Together
with You》2002 |
26《赤壁》《Red
Cliff》2008; Chn, Japan |
27《小城之春》《Spring in a Small
town》1948 |
28《獨臂刀》《The
One-armed Swordman》1967 |
|
29《刀馬旦》《Beking Opera
Blues》1986 |
30《精武門》《Fist of
Fury》1972 |
31《黃飛鴻》《Once
Upon a Time in China》1991 |
32《荆轲刺秦王》《The Emperor and the
Assassin》1999, Chn, JP, US, France |
|
33《投名狀》《The
warloards》2007; Chn, HK |
34《東邪西毒》《Ashes of
Time》1994; HK, TW |
35《馬路天使》《Street Angel》1937 |
|
◊
Taiwan's
movie scores compared with other Asian's
|
♣
Taiwan won some important
film awards 10 years ago, but not
in recent years
♣
most of Taiwan's awarded films were "high art", "box office poison" |
|
List of Asians' big-wins in Oscar 2022 - 2023 |
Creatives of Chinese and Indian Descent Triumph at 2023 Oscars
- Best Actress
Michelle Yeoh
(Malaysia);
Best Supporting Actor Ke Huy Quan
(Vietnamese-born
Chinese-American);
Best Supporting Actress
Stephanie Hsu
(grandmother
is Chinese to Taiwan),
Hong Chau (Vietnamese);
Best Original Screenplay
Daniel Kwan (father Hong Konger);
Best Adapted Screenplay
Kazuo Ishiguro ( Japan born)
2022 Oscars:
Best Intl Feature
Drive My Car (Japan)
;
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan)
2011 Oscar
awards show proved to be a monumental one,
with Chloé Zhao making history as the first Asian woman to win
the Academy Award for “Best Director” for her work on Nomadland. |
|
List of Asians' big-wins in Oscar 2016 - 2021 |
| Best Picture |
2021- Japan (nominated); 2020- China (won); 2019 - S.
Korea (won) |
| Best Actor |
2020 - S. Korea/USA (nominated) |
| Best Actress |
2016 - Israel/USA (nominated) |
| Best Supporting Actor |
2016 - India/UK (nominated) |
| Best Supporting Actress |
2020 - S. Korea (won) |
| Best Director |
2021 - Japan (nominated); 2020 - China (won), S.
Korea/USA (nominated); 2019 - S. Korea (won) |
| Best Original ScreenPlay |
2020 - S. Korea/USA (nominated); 2019 - S. Korea (won);
2017 - Pakistan/USA (nominated) |
| Best Adapted ScreenPlay |
2021 - Japan (nominated); 2020 - China (nominated),
Iran/USA (nominated); Armenia/USA (nominated) |
| Best Int'l Feature Film |
2021 - Japan (won), Bhutan (nominated); 2020
- Hong Kong (nominated); 2019 - S. Korea (won); 2018 - Japan, Lebanon
(nominated); 2017 - Lebanon (nominated); 2016 - Lebanon (won) |
PS: news
Feb. 2024 - Hayao Miyazaki, at age 83, earned an Academy Award nomination for
his semi-autobiographical fantasy film The Boy and the Heron;
Taiwanese-American
director S. Leo Chiang's 19 minute-long "Island in Between"
about frontline Taiwanese islands repeatedly fought over with China
during the height of the Cold War
Island in Between | An Oscar-Nominated Op-Doc
is vying to win an Oscar
2024.
|
Asians' big-wins
at Cannes Film Festival 2022 - 2023 |
Cannes 2022 - Director Park
Chan-wook and actor Song Kang-ho, both from South Korea,
scripted history at Cannes with their wins in the respective categories.
Among other winning Asian names and films were Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi,
Chinese short film The Water Murmurs, Pakistani film Joyland, and Indian
documentary All That Breathes
Cannes 2023 -
Japanese acting legend Koji Yakusho won best actor for Wim Wenders' 'Perfect
Days'. Merve Dizdar took best actress for Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Turkish drama
'About Dry Grasses.' Tràn Anh Hùng a Vietnamese-born filmmaker based in France, took the best
director prize for The
Pot-Au-Feu. A third Asian film, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster,
took best screenplay honors, for the script from Yuji Sakamoto, a
careful dissection of Japanese reticence, shame and desire.
prize for best first film went to Inside
the Yellow Cocoon Shell from
Vietnamese writer/director Thien An Pham, which premiered in Cannes’ Directors’
Fortnight sidebar |
|
List of Asians' big-wins at Cannes Film Festival 2016
- 2021 |
|
"Palme
d'Or" |
2019 - S. Korea (Parasite) |
| 2018- Japan (Shoplifters) |
| Best Actor |
2022 - S. Korea
|
| 2016 - Iran |
| Best Actress |
2022 - Iran |
| 2018 - Kazakh |
| 2016 - Philippines |
| Best Director |
2022 - S. Korea |
|
List of Asians' Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival
2016 - 2023 |
|
Grand Jury Prize |
2023 - Japan -
Evil Does Not Exist, Ryusuke Hamaguchi |
|
Best
Picture
|
2016 - Philippines
|
| een.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Lion |
|
List of Asians'
Best Animated Feature in Oscar 2016 - 2023 |
|
2023 |
Japan (nominated)日本 |
he Boy and the Heron
Hayao Miyazaki & Toshio
Suzuki |
|
2020 |
China/USA (nominated)中囯 |
|
|
2018 |
Japan (nominated)日本 |
won Annie Awards |
|
2016 |
Japan (nominated)日本 |
|
|
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Animated_Feature |
|
List of Asians'
British Academic Film Awards 2016 ~ 2023 |
|
2021 |
Australia, New Zealand
澳紐
(BAFTA
Award for Best Film) |
2019
|
S. Korea南韓
(BAFTA
Award for Best Film) |
|
BAFTA Award for Best Film
Not In English |
|
2021 |
Japan日本
(won) |
|
2019 |
S. Korea南韓
(won) |
|
2018 |
Japan日本,
Lebanon黎巴嫩
(nominated) |
|
2017 |
S. Korea南韓
(won), Cambodia 柬埔寨 (nominated) |
☉ News: New York Times (2024-5-2): in
the 2000s, studios focused on animation and PG-13 franchises that could play to
a global audience (China's censors don't allow sex scenes). But Chinese
audiences have since cooled on Hollywood, and so sex is back on the big screen
in the U.S.
<Economist>
(2023-11-10) "The
Best Films of 2023"
<英國電影學會>
(BFI)
"The
Greatest Films of All Time"，top 25:
(AFI) "The
Greatest Films of All Time" ，top 20:
|
<America Film Institute> (https://www.filmsite.org/afi100films_2007.html) |
|
|
<TIME>: 2000~2020
"The 100 Best Movies of the past 10 Decades" top 20 films★
