2004: Retrospective

[Mike Thomason]

As a small follow-up to the "2005: The Year That Was..." topic, and just as a small measure of making everyone work that little bit harder, how about the year before? This is as far back as I'm stretching, and per the 2005 thread only films from Asia from the 2004 release year! Once again, no representation from Japan -- it's pretty much a region whose cinema leaves me cold so I seldom, if ever, dabble...

Hong Kong

In-Laws, Out-Laws
A Wedding & A Funeral
Magic Kitchen
Fantasia
Silver Hawk
Protégé de la Rose Noire
Elixir Of Love
Love Trilogy
Leaving Me, Loving You
Xanda
Sex & The Beauties
Herbal Tea
Itchy Heart
The Eye 2
Papa Loves You
Enter The Phoenix
The Miracle Box
Love On The Rocks
Koma
Moving Targets
Jiang Hu
Driving Miss Wealthy
Osaka Wrestling Restaurant
Dating Death
Astonishing
One Nite In Mongkok
Love Is A Many Stupid Thing
Love Battlefield
Breaking News
Super Model
Forever Yours
Heat Team
Throw Down
Three Of A Kind
The Twins Effect II
Hidden Heroes
Dumplings
Three…Extremes
Six Strong Guys
A-1
My Sweetie
Escape From Hong Kong Island
New Police Story
The Attractive One
2046
Yesterday Once More
The White Dragon
Colour Blossoms
Abnormal Beauty
Explosive City
Beyond Our Ken
Leave Me Alone
6AM
Butterfly
Kung Fu Hustle

Mainland China

Life Express
Goddess Of Mercy
House Of Flying Daggers
A World Without Thieves

Malaysia

Puteri Gunung Ledang

Singapore

The Best Bet

South Korea

100 Days With Mr. Arrogant
Ice Rain
Once Upon A Time In High School (aka: The Spirit of Jeet Kune Do)
Spy Girl
Taegukgi
Desire
My Little Bride
The Big Swindle
Windstruck
Face
The Ghost (aka: Dead Friend)
A Wacky Switch
Romance Of Their Own
Everybody Has Secrets
The Doll Master
Bunshinsaba (aka: Ouija Board)
Love, So Divine
Hypnotised
To Catch A Virgin Ghost
Spider Forest
3-Iron
The Scarlet Letter
A Moment To Remember
s**t Up! (aka: None of Your Cheek)
Flying Boys
Marrying High School Girl

Taiwan

20 30 40

Thailand

Be True
The Siam Renaissance
The Sisters
Garuda
The Sin
Pad Thai Bride
Tropical Malady
Headless Hero 2
Shutter
The Adventure Of Iron Pussy
Bangkok Loco
Curse Of The Sun
Zee-Oui
Six
Sagai United
SARS Wars

* actually, to be honest, there's nothing in either list from Indonesia, the Philippines or Vietnam! I'll guess I'll address that fact in future years...

[Knetan]

hey,

am so married to HK and the few Korean, Japanese or Thailand productions that came along probably weren't from 04 but can't be bothered to look it up. Don't be surprised by the lack of films seen, again, my jumps from anything ranging from the 60s up till now still applied to 04.

The Attractive One
Driving Miss Wealthy
Elixir Of Love
Escape From Hong Kong Island
Fantasia
Herbal Tea
Infernal Affairs 1 & 2
Jiang Hu
Koma
Kung Fu Hustle
Leaving Me, Loving You
Love Battlefield
Love Trilogy
New Police Story
One nite In Mongkok
Papa Loves You
The White Dragon
Three Of A Kind
Three: Dumplings
Throw Down

Taiwan
20 30 40

[Mike Thomason]

Don't be surprised by the lack of films seen, again, my jumps from anything ranging from the 60s up till now...

Once again -- not a problem! For the record, I only listed the films I saw from the respective countries for the release year(s) in both posts -- if I had've listed everything I watched, and there were LOTS of films from outside the bracket, both lists would have been HUGE!!!

[Knetan]

hey,

yea obviously I listed only the 04 productions as well as that year probably was divided between new, Shaw's, various thrash, gems on various formats.

Hence me doing a top 10 each year for the site based on what I watched, that year the top spot belonging to an early 70s movie.