Jonathan Ross hosts Jonathan Ross's Asian Invasion, a three part look at Asian cinema, circa 2006.
Episode 1 Japan Jonathan spends some time with Ryuhei Kitamura who's first film Versus was a big international cult hit. I liked it, I even have two DVDs of it. Jonathan takes Ryuhei shopping for DVDs, he then shows clips from Casshern, Ping Pong, Wild Zero, The Calamari Wrestler. He talks about other directors and their films: Shunji Iwai, "Beat" Takishi Kitano, Takashi Miike, Hayao Miyazaki, Mamoru Oshii and others.
Episode 2 Hong Kong Jonathan talks to one of my favorite Chinese actors and directors Stephen Chow and looks at the comedy of HK cinema. Then he spends some time looking at crime cinema and Michelle Yeoh.
Episode 3 Korea Jonathan visits Korea to look at their movies.
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