Historical Epic Movies

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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	A Battle Of Wits Hong Kong 2006 Jacob Cheung (Director) Tung Wai (Action Director) Andy Lau Wang Zhi-Wen Fan Bing-Bing Ahn Sung-Kee Chin Siu-Ho Wu Ma Yoshinao Sakamoto (Cinematographer) Gen Kobayashi (Cinematographer) Ardy Lam (Cinematographer) Kenji Kawai (Soundtrack) Well worth a look if you're a fan of this sort of film! (Sunday, March 4, 2007)
	The Water Margin Hong Kong 1972 Chang Cheh (Director, Writer) Wu Ma (Director, Actor) Pao Hsueh-Li (Director) Lau Kar-Leung (Action Director) Tang Chia (Action Director) Lau Kar-Wing (Action Director) Chan Chuen (Action Director) Shaw Brothers (Production Company) David Chiang Tetsuro Tamba Tung Lam Ku Feng Yueh Hua Ti Lung Lily Ho Fan Mei-Sheng Chen Kuan-Tai Danny Lee Sau-Yin I Kuang (Writer) A lavish production delivering entertainment (Sunday, September 17, 2023)
	Asoka India 2001 Santosh Sivan (Director) Shah Rukh Khan Kareena Kapoor Impressive and powerful (Friday, May 24, 2002)
	Padmaavat India 2018 Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Director, Writer, Soundtrack) Ranveer Singh Deepika Padukone Shahid Kapoor Jim Sarbh Aayam Mehta Ujjwal Chopra Raza Murad Aditi Rao Hydari Anupriya Goenka Padmavati Rao Prakash R. Kapadia (Writer) Sudeep Chatterjee (Cinematographer) Sanchit Balhara (Soundtrack) Ankit Balhara (Soundtrack) Looks pretty but weak in most other respects (Monday, June 28, 2021)
	Heaven And Earth Japan 1990 Waste of time (theirs and mine) (Thursday, July 1, 2004)
	Ran (Chaos) Japan 1985 Akira Kurosawa (Director, Writer) Tatsuya Nakadai Akira Terao Jinpachi Nezu Daisuke Ryû Mieko Harada Yoshiko Miyazaki Hisashi Igawa William Shakespeare (Writer) Asakazu Nakai (Cinematographer) Kurosawa despairs at the human condition (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
	Seven Samurai Japan 1954 Akira Kurosawa (Director, Writer) Toho Co. (Production Company) Takashi Shimura Toshiro Mifune Yoshio Inaba Seiji Miyaguchi Minoru Chiaki Daisuke Katō Isao Kimura Keiko Tsushima Tatsuya Nakadai Shinobu Hashimoto (Writer) Hideo Oguni (Writer) Asakazu Nakai (Cinematographer) Fumio Hayasaka (Soundtrack) One of the best films ever made (Friday, January 31, 2003)
	Throne Of Blood Japan 1957 Akira Kurosawa (Director) Toshiro Mifune Isuzu Yamada Takashi Shimura Akira Kubo Yoichi Tachikawa Minoru Chiaki Asakazu Nakai (Cinematographer) Kurosawa's interpretation of Macbeth (Friday, January 4, 2013)
	Genghis Khan Mongolia 2000 Great production values, lavish epic (Sunday, July 7, 2002)
	TaeGukGi South Korea 2004 Kang Je-Gyu (Director) Jung Doo-Hong (Action Director) Jang Dong-Gun Won Bin Lee Eun-Ju Choi Min-Sik Impressive war film from Korea (Saturday, December 11, 2004)