Looking for Asian Comedy

Any recommendation?

If by Asian you mean the whole continent including Japan then Takeshi Kitano’s ‘Kikujiro’ is a great little comedy.

For comedy-drama: “Tampopo” by Juzu Itami.

For off-the-wall surreal nuttiness: “The Happiness of the Katakuris” by Takashi Miike.

if you can locate them, also check out itami’s “taxing woman” and “taxing woman returns”.

Tampopo and Katakuris are great, exactly the two I would mention.

Ill also add Big Shot’s Funeral & Wheels on Meals.

Thank you guys! I already seen Katakuris and Kikujiro. LOVE IT.

Big Man Japan looks funny, but in an extremely niche way.

Gung Ho was funny in the 80s, but probably not now.

Some favorites:

Blessing Bell (Hiroyuki Tanaka)
Monday (Hiroyuki Tanaka)
The Taste of Tea (Katsuhito Ishii)
The Bird People in China (Takashi Miike)
Summer Time Machine Blues (Katsuyuki Motohiro)
Survive Style 5+ (Gen Sekiguchi)
Save the Green Planet! (Joon-Hwan Jang)
Happy Times (Yimou Zhang)
The Story Of Qiu Ju (Yimou Zhang)

Welcome Back Mr McDonald – a Japanese ensemble comedy, Kino released the DVD in the US. Very entertaining – very much a tip of the hat to Hollywood 30s screwball comedies, with an opening scene that is something of a Hitchcock nod as well – a long travelling shot that introduces most of the major characters in stylish fashion. It’s not quite as good as its’ aspirations, but still – great fun.

Okay, you say you’ve seen Katakuris. Have you seen Ichi the Killer? Thats pretty funny also. There is also Samurai Fiction. Visitor Q is hilarious. And i’m sure you’ve seen Kung Fu Hustle.

White on Rice
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892904/

Also seen…

Welcome Back Mr McDonald (good ‘feel good’ movie :) love it)
Survive Style 5+ ( not my cup of tea….though I love “Party 7”)
The Bird People in China (very good film)
Kung Fu Hustle (I like it – I saw this film even before it became famous in US)
Ichi the Killer ( not a big fan of it….but i enjoyed watching it)

I haven’t seen Visitor Q I thought it was a depressing movie?

I thought Shaolin Soccer was much funnier than Kung Fu Hustle. (Although I had to look past some of the unfunny, puerile humor in it.) And there’s a lot of hilarious anime.

My Sassy Girl
Kamikaze Girls
Turtles Swim Faster Than Expected
Linda Linda Linda
The Hidden Fortress

Oh my bad, when I said “Kung Fu Hustle,” i meant “Shaolin Soccer” , my bad…
Yes I’ve seen Shaolin Soccer, and yes it was much funnier than Kung Fu Hustle.

I second White on Rice!

I second Acerk’s suggestions and add Swing Girls to it.
And… I’m gonna throw this out there, but I laughed a lot with Shonen Merikensack.
I also laughed a lot with the McDull films. My Life as McDull, Prince de la Bun and yes… even Alumni.

Definitely Tampopo. I crave Ramen now! mm

My Sassy Girl (korean)
Love on A diet (Hongkong)
Welcome to Dongmakgol (Korean)

Eat Drink Man Woman (饮食男女) — a Taiwanese film directed by Ang Lee and starring Sihung Lung, Yu-wen Wang, Chien-lien Wu, Kuei-mei Yang.

Many cast members starred in Ang Lee’s previous film, The Wedding Banquet. The latter film (an uproarious comedy in its first half) was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-Liang)

also, Jackie Chan(the kung-fu Charlie Chaplin) films from late 1970’s

both of these are physical comedies in radically different senses of the word

Pretty much anything by Juzo Itami :

Tampopo
A Taxing Woman
The Funeral

I thought Tetsuo, the Iron Man funny too, in a Japanese B-movie sort of way.

sad too.