Who makes the best Asian movies?

[Lafiel]

Chris Hu said:

Lafiel said:

.. are you guys kidding ? I like Hero,House of the flying Daggers and Red Cliff, but it's Japan by a landslide

even Akira Kurosawa's fantastic movies like Yojimbo, Shichinin no Samurai or Ran alone tip it into their favor, but additionally there are things like Zatoichi, the various horror movies like Ringu or Dark Water and ofcourse the ever fun Battle Royale

and I'm not even counting the fabulous anime movies from Ghibli and Satoshi Kon yet

Meh, Chinese movies are more entertaining especially if you include Honk Kong cinema. 

*shrugs* I feel there is not enough diversity in HK cinema, but despite my first post in this thread I am aware that I actually didn't dive deeply enough into asian movie scenes apart from the japanese one to form an "objective opinion" (oxymoron) about which one is the best (right now/historically).