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We have been treated to an absolutely fantastic year in terms of Asian movies. Not only have we had splendid art house movies such as Like You Know It All and Love Exposure, but we’ve also had the weird and wonderful in Yatterman and of course the first attempt by Korea at taking on the vampire movie genre with the excellent Thirst.

Its also been a return to form for Hong Kong movies, such as Accident, City of Life and Death and Overheard. Its not just the usual movie producing nations which have been producing classics either, we’ve also seen incredbile movies from Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines.
We have finally come down to the top 8 movies this year from an original list of over 30 movies from various Asian countries.

Accident is the latest film from director Pou-Soi Cheang (Shamo, Dog Bit Dog, and Love Battlefield) and producer Johnnie To (Mad Detective, Election, PTU) via To’s Milkyway Images production.

It tells the story of a crack team of assassins led by Brains (Louis Koo) who instead of forcefully killing their foe, instead come up with elaborate plans to make the murders look like every day accidents.
Each ‘accident’ is painstakingly put together with every minor detail taking care of. It’s this attention to detail which quickly grabs the viewers’ attention from the very opening scene.