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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	The Great Yokai War Japan 2005 Takashi Miike (Director, Writer) Ryunosuke Kamiki Hiroyuki Miyasako Chiaki Kuriyama Bunta Sugawara Kaho Minami Riko Narumi Etsushi Toyokawa Kiyoshiro Imawano Seiko Iwaido Masaomi Kondo Sadao Abe Takashi Okamura Naoto Takenaka Kenichi Endo Renji Ishibashi Hiroshi Aramata (Writer) Hideo Yamamoto (Cinematographer) Miike unleashes his imagination in less deviant lands (Sunday, November 13, 2005)
	The Guys From Paradise Japan 2000 Takashi Miike (Director) Tsutomu Yamazaki Koji Kikkawa (Actor, Soundtrack) Kenichi Endo (Actor, Actor) Kazuhiko Kanayama Naoto Takenaka Hua Rong Weng Kenji Mizuhashi Nene Otsuka Mai Oikawa Monsour Del Rosario Izo Hashimoto (Writer) Itaru Era (Writer) Yôji Hayashi (Writer) Hideo Yamamoto (Cinematographer) Further confirmation of Miike's extraordinary film-making talent (Monday, June 23, 2003)
	The Heroic Trio Hong Kong 1993 Johnnie To (Director) Ching Siu-Tung (Action Director) Anita Mui Michelle Yeoh Maggie Cheung Damian Lau Anthony Wong Yen Shi-Kwan Sandy Shaw (Writer) Lau Moon-Tong (Cinematographer) Poon Hang-Sang (Cinematographer) Stylish and beautiful (Sunday, December 1, 2002)
	The Host South Korea 2006 Bong Joon-Ho (Director, Writer) Song Kang-Ho Byun Hee-Bong Bae Doo-Na Park No-Shik Park Hae-Il Ko Ah-Sung Lee Jae-Eung Hah Jun-Won (Writer) Baek Chul-Hyun (Writer) Kim Hyung-Gu (Cinematographer) Quirky monster movie with added social commentary (Sunday, May 16, 2021)
	The Inspector Wears Skirts Hong Kong 1988 Wellson Chin (Director) Golden Harvest (Production Company) Paragon Films Ltd. (Production Company) Sibelle Hu Cynthia Rothrock Kara Hui Sandra Ng Ann Bridgewater Regina Kent Ellen Chan Stanley Fung Alex To Billy Lau Bill Tung Ricky Hui Abe Kwong (Writer) Andrew Lau (Cinematographer) Bit of a wasted opportunity (Monday, July 29, 2002)
	The Inspector Wears Skirts II Hong Kong 1989 Wellson Chin (Director) Sibelle Hu Sandra Ng Kara Hui May Lo Regina Kent Amy Yip Bill Tung Melvin Wong Stanley Fung Billy Lau Not very good (Thursday, August 30, 2007)
	The Kick Thailand 2011 Prachya Pinkaew (Director) Panna Rittikrai (Action Director) Ahn Chang-beom (Action Director) Jo Jae-Hyeon Ye Ji-Won Na Tae-joo Kim Kyung-suk Petchtai Wongkamlao JeeJa Yanin Lee Kwan-hun Lee Jong-Suk (Writer) Slick Thai/Korean crowd pleaser (Saturday, November 17, 2012)
	The Killer Hong Kong 1989 John Woo (Director, Writer) Ching Siu-Tung (Action Director) Lau Chi-Ho (Action Director) Chow Yun-Fat Danny Lee Sau-Yin Sally Yeh Paul Chu Kong Kenneth Tsang Shing Fui-On Tommy Wong James Ha Peter Pau (Cinematographer) Horace Wong (Cinematographer) Lowell Lo (Soundtrack) Pretty much defines the "Heroic Bloodshed" genre (Tuesday, May 13, 2003)
	The Killer's Love Hong Kong 1993 Jamie Luk (Director, Action Director, Actor, Writer) James Ha (Action Director) Carol Cheng Simon Yam Anglie Leung Karel Wong David Wu Dai-Wai Wong Wan-Choi Just awful (Thursday, August 13, 2020)
	The King Boxer Hong Kong 2000 Benny Ng (Director) Douglas Kung (Action Director, Actor) Chin Kar-Lok May Kwong Eddy Ko Billy Chow Watchable kung fu film (Sunday, November 27, 2005)