Asian stories that rival their western counterparts?

[Faithless]

I recently watched "She's the Man" with Amanda Bynes in it. Aside from it being a vehicle for the Robin Williams of the teen chick set, the movie was okay, but nothing to clap about.

She plays this kid whose female soccer team was cut from her highschool, so she decides to disguise herself as her brother to play on a rival highschool's male soccer team. Unbelievably silly, but sometimes a person's in the mood for that sort of thing.

Well, recently I came across a Korean story that I think would have been a helluva better story for the big screen. The story was about a girl named Induk Pahk who also disguised herself as a boy, but she did so to get herself educated at an all boys school. Back then, "Korean schools did not admit girls ...", according to the byline. It was more serious and more real, and I think the treatment about that sort of gender inequality would have been more enlightening to the movie going audience.

Any other Asian stories like that make their western counterparts look a poor man's version of something better?

[eos]

ummmm....how about everything?

[snailpoo]

ummmm....how about everything?
Sorry. God of Gamblers 5,488,532,357,885 sucked.

[eos]

there's a western counterpart for that?

[snailpoo]

there's a western counterpart for that?

Rocky 34,913?

[Player 0]

Oh there are tons of western remakes of Asian films, far too many to name really, i suggest you rent a whole bunch of them and see if they remind you of anything.

PS. Jungle 2 Jungle is a remake of a French film.

[SunWuKong]

Rocky 34,913?

i had no idea Rocky gambled.

[Martino]

'She's the Man' sounds a little like He's a Woman, She's A Man (and its sequel) , a pretty funny Leslie Cheung/Anita Yeun movie (Jordan Chan's first film) with a splash of Iron Ladies (sorry, I still cannot remember the names of Thai actors).

Another match would be the Nicky Wu/Charlie Yeung version of The Butterfly Lovers - it even has the same plot to your Korean movie ... but better music?

'She's the Man' sounds like a blend of the three - there's even a partial match in the title!

[SunWuKong]

'She's the Man' sounds a little like He's a Woman, She's A Man (and its sequel) , a pretty funny Leslie Cheung/Anita Yeun movie (Jordan Chan's first film) with a splash of Iron Ladies (sorry, I still cannot remember the names of Thai actors).

excellent movie. one of Peter Chan's better movies. and i think this was at the height of Anita Yuen's popularity. i have not seen the sequel, but i heard that Peter Chan did not do it and it sucked.

[TB4000]

The ads and commercials basically had She's the Man as a retelling of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Go figure.

[Martino]

excellent movie. one of Peter Chan's better movies. and i think this was at the height of Anita Yuen's popularity. i have not seen the sequel, but i heard that Peter Chan did not do it and it sucked.

It was all angst, with Leslie still pining for Africa (having not got there last time due to more women troubles). Come to think of it, I can't recall any details of the story, and I don't seem to have kept the VCD. Not that good then.