Asia Extreme

I've been revising my top ten films of our current decade and, lo and behold, each of the top five is Asian. I'm pretty sure this mostly stems from my viewing habits over the last few years, although taste could factor in as well.

• Joint Security Area (Park Chan-wook, 2000)
• Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho, 2003)
• 2046 (Wong Kar-wai, 2004)
• Cruel Winter Blues (Lee Jeong-beom, 2006)
• Exiled (Johnnie To, 2006)
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• Funny Ha-Ha (Andrew Bujalski, 2002)
• L'enfant (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne, 2006)
• Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo, 2006)
• The Old Garden (Im Sang-soo, 2007)
• The Boss of It All (Lars von Trier, 2007)
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• Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000)
• Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
• The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005)
• Hannah Takes the Stairs (Joe Swanberg, 2007)
• Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2007)