Hideo Kojima selects the top five films of the year, and the Chinese film "An Elephant Sitting Still" is on the list

Well-known game producer Hideo Kojima tweeted today (December 20), ranking the top five movies released this year (in Japan), including a domestic film "An Elephant Sitting Still".

Kojima Twitter:

Parasites

"Parasite" is a 2019 South Korean black comedy thriller film directed by Bong Joon-ho and starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-sik and Park So-dam.

Unemployed driver Kim Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho) lives with his wife Chung-sook (Jang Hye-jin) and their two children in the semi-basement of a run-down apartment, making ends meet by folding paper boxes for a pizza shop. Their lives are precarious. One day, Min-hyuk, a friend of the eldest son Ki-woo, asks Ki-woo to take over the tutoring job of a wealthy family and become Park Da-hye's English teacher because he is going abroad to study. Ki-woo then introduces his sister to become Da-hye's younger brother Da-song's art healing teacher, and then the family uses a trick to make the Park family resign their original driver and housekeeper so that their parents can also have a stable job in the Park family. The Kim family suddenly becomes very happy.

To celebrate Da-song's birthday, the Park family went camping, and the Kim family took the opportunity to become the temporary owners of the mansion. Suddenly, the former housekeeper rang the doorbell and said that he left in a hurry and left important things in the basement, hoping to retrieve them. After the panicked Kim family let the housekeeper in, things got out of control...

border

"Border" (Swedish: "Gräns"; English: "Border") is a 2018 Swedish drama film. Directed by Ali Abbasi, starring Eva Melander and Eero Milonov, the story tells the story of a "woman" who can smell evil and a "man" of the same kind, which leads to the interweaving of humanity, evil, love and hate.

The film is based on a short story of the same name by John Lindqvist. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 10, 2018. It was later scheduled for a limited release in the United States on October 26, 2018. It earned $770,000 worldwide. The film has caused a lot of discussion and controversy around the world, mainly because of its bizarre and unpredictable plot and novel subject matter. At the 91st Academy Awards, the film received 1 nomination, including Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

Irish

The Irishman is a 2019 American epic crime film directed and produced by Martin Scorsese and written by Stephen Zaillian, based on Charles Blount's 2004 memoir I Heard You Paint Houses.

The film tells the story of organized crime in post-war America through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a con man and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the 20th century. Spanning decades, the film chronicles one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in American history, the disappearance of legendary union leader Jimmy Hoffa, and is a grand storytelling journey through the hidden corridors of organized crime: its inner workings, its enemies, and its entanglement with mainstream politics.

Elephant sitting on the ground

"An Elephant Sitting Still" is the only feature-length film directed by the late director Hu Bo (pen name Hu Qian), starring Zhang Yu, Peng Yuchang, Wang Yuwen, Li Congxi and others. It premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in Germany on February 16, 2018, and won the Best Feature Film at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards in November of the same year.

There is an elephant in Manzhouli Zoo, sitting there every day. A boy who stands up for his friend, a bully brother who avenges his brother, and a girl in prison, are stuck in the dark cracks of the world and can't get out, but they struggle to see the elephant. On a bleak winter day, desperate figures collide in asymmetrical and unbalanced images, bursting the repressed depression, and spreading wantonly in the low-cost production with rough scenery and dim lighting.

cold war

Cold War (Polish: Zimna wojna, English: Cold War) is a 2018 Polish drama film directed by Pawel Pawlikowski.

The film tells the passionate love story between a pair of young people with completely different backgrounds and personalities. In the 1950s during the Cold War, in Stalin's Poland and the free-spirited Paris, a freedom-seeking musician and a passionate young singer fell in love. The two people were not a good match, but they were destined to be entangled. The film is set in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris during the Cold War in the 1950s, depicting an impossible love story in difficult times.