Busan Film Fest lists 100 best Asian films; Singapore’s Ilo Ilo at No. 661 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA list of the best Asian films of all time was published this week, as the region’s increasingly vibrant cinema scene celebrated another bonanza in Busan.
The 20th anniversary of the Busan International Film Festival marked its milestone with a poll of noted Asian film-makers and international critics of Asian film, who were asked for their top 10.
Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien said the release of the Asian Cinema 100 was a reminder to fellow film-makers of their obligation to “seek the truth”. “Sometimes as a film-maker, you have to show things that people don’t want to see,” he said.
His breakthrough work A City Of Sadness was ranked fifth-best on a list topped by Japanese master auteur Yasujiro Ozu’s seminal family drama Tokyo Story (1953).
Hou’s new film, gongfu epic The Assassin, is among the early critics’ favourites for this year’s Best Foreign Film Oscar after picking up 11 nominations for the Golden Horse Awards last week.
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