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Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies โ€˜produced in foreign landsโ€™ (www.theguardian.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] -4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Man, I have such mixed feelings on this.

On one hand, it would mean that Netflix would stop trying to push shitty Bollywood films on me (seriously, if I could prevent all Hindi films from showing up on my Netflix forever, I would absolutely do that). On the other hand it would mean that the really darkly melancholic Euro films would also be off the menu.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

A lot of the good South Asian content is in the form of TV shows now. Movies (especially North Indian / Hindi) have been on the downslide for the past 10 years.. I feel like shows are generally doing better than movies globally. It's really hard to explore a topic well in ~2 hours.

Generally if you stop watching movies from a region it will stop suggesting them to you. I watched an Italian movie once and it recommended movies from there for a week or so and then stopped.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have NEVER watched a Hindi movie. The closest I got was the most recent Zatoichi film, which had a weird-ass song-and-dance number at the end that was totally unrelated to the entire film. But scrolling through Netflix, it still keeps suggesting Hindi films for me, "because you liked...!"

I do watch some K-horror (Train to Busan, The Wailing, Thirst, etc.), Japanese chambara (the above mentioned Zatoichi, Lone Wolf and Cub, Hanzo the Razor--which is solidly pinku-eiga--and others), and sometimes Chinese historical pieces. I've watched a few Malay and Indonesian horror films as well. Some of the Asian television series are pretty great; I was really enjoying Gyeongseong Creature and Kingdom. I've tried watching Japanese TV, and the stuff I've seen has just been bad. I don't think I've come across any Chinese TV shows that have interested me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah with South Asian movies you have to be pretty selective. A ton of movies are produced there and they generally are not directed at a global audience (which is perfectly fine in my opinion).

I'm not sure what this Zatoichi film is. Generally song and dance numbers are in commercialized mass market trash these days but had their charm (to south asian audiences at least) in the 90s and early 2000s. Those mass market movies are usually the ones that end up on Netflix.

There are some excellent hindi movies out there but more recently I'd say south Indian movies have been better overall.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It was the 2003 version with Takeshi Takano rather than Katsu Shintaro playing the lead role. Without the weird song and dance number it would have been a very solid entry (despite the digital blood).