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Detour to the East: Asian Noir

Continuous work in progress. Suggestions welcomed.

Certain basic elements needed: A crime committed. Moral forfeiture and karmic comeuppance (per James Ellroy). A sense of fatalism but also a backbone of moralism (Imogen Sara Smith). Stylistic choices that express themes of alienation, guilt.

References:
-East Asian Film Noir: Transnational Encounters and Intercultural Dialogue (eds. Chi-yun Shin, Mark Gallagher )
-Hong Kong Neo-Noir (eds. Esther C.M. Yau, Tony Williams)
-2017 London Korean Film Festival: Special Focus on Korean Noir, Illuminating the Dark Side of Society (added 9/12/17)

Block or Report
  • That Night's Wife
  • Dragnet Girl
  • Police Officer
  • Drunken Angel
  • Aag
  • A Woman in the Typhoon Area
  • Stray Dog
  • Rinchi
  • The Angry Street
  • Pursuit At Dawn
  • White Beast
  • Baazi
  • Awaara
  • Andha Naal
  • The Hand of Destiny
  • I Saw the Killer
  • Child of Sorrow
  • The Face
  • Tokyo Twilight
  • I Am Waiting
  • Forever with You
  • Stakeout
  • Kala Pani
  • A Wicked Woman
  • Rusty Knife
  • The Flower in Hell
  • Conflagration
  • Points and Lines
  • The Perfect Game
  • Endless Desire
  • The Big Boss
  • The Third Dead Angle
  • Bombai Ka Babu
  • Jaali Note
  • The Last Gunfight
  • Black Line
  • Take Aim at the Police Van
  • Shisha to no kekkon
  • Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
  • The Lost Alibi
  • Afraid to Die
  • Intimidation
  • Only She Knows
  • The Sleeping Beast Within
  • The Wild, Wild Rose
  • The Gun Like Lightning
  • Smashing the 0-Line
  • The Man with a Sinister Laugh
  • Kala Bazar
  • The Bad Sleep Well
  • The Housemaid
  • Get 'em All
  • Sexy Line
  • Pigs and Battleships
  • Zero Focus
  • Aimless Bullet
  • Black Silk
  • Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley
  • Drifting Detective: Black Wind in Harbor
  • Flower, Storm and Gangster
  • A Wife Confesses
  • Greed in Broad Daylight
  • The Inheritance
  • The Challenge
  • Tokyo Bay
  • Black Test Car
  • China Town
  • Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
  • High and Low
  • Youth of the Beast
  • Red Handkerchief
  • Cruel Gun Story
  • Love and Greed
  • Pale Flower
  • An Outlaw
  • Black Hair
  • Wolves, Pigs & Men
  • A Fugitive from the Past
  • Black Snow
  • Cash Calls Hell
  • The Stranger Within a Woman
  • Moment of Terror
  • A Colt Is My Passport
  • Branded to Kill
  • The Story of a Discharged Prisoner
  • Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands
  • I, the Executioner
  • The Man Without a Map
  • The General's Mustache
  • Naked Bullet
  • A Cause to Kill
  • The Train
  • Woman of Fire
  • Internal Sleuth
  • The Castle of Sand
  • Manila in the Claws of Light
  • The Most Dangerous Game
  • The Incident
  • The Killing Game
  • The Gold Connection