We have been watching a lot of Hong Kong movies, starting with Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer. Both were very cute, tongue in cheek, slap stick type films. Both reminded us a lot of the films Jackie Chan started out doing.
On the opposite end of the spectrum were the films of Chan-wook Park , Lady Vengeance, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Old Boy.
While Old Boy was my favorite of the three, the ending of Lady Vengeance was more than enough to put it up there as one of the most satisfying endings of all time and probably the only Hong Kong flick with a somewhat happy ending.
I was prepared for Old Boy to be very violent, and while it was mildly violent, the taboo sex and incest were the things you really had to watch out for. If you're squeamish about these subjects, this is not the film for you.
Lady Vengeance was a lot more experimental and surreal, with lots of flashbacks and hallucinations and jumps in time and place. The ending was just so incredible, I would really recommend it above all the others, even for the squeamish because the movie is just that damn good.
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