The first asian movies I saw

I began watching asian movies quite late, to late maybe, and I had the probably the most normal beginning in this area: Jackie Chan. I still consider Jackie Chan a genius (and I'm very aware that he's not the hippest guy nowadays), especially in the movies from the eighties. I saw Police Story on a fullscreen vhs and was amazed by the stunts and fighting. I started to collect a lot of tapes, and soon I found A better tomorrow 2 - which I know people consider is a weak part in this trilogy, but for me it's always been the best. Just Heroes is also one of the first Woo-movies I saw and it's a shame it's so forgotten.

But before that it was really two movies that shaped my asian (or at least Hong Kong-taste): Mad Mission 4 and G.I. Samurai! I had (and still have) both of these on swedish x-rentals and Mad Mission 4 was the best action movie I've ever seen. I still consider it a masterpiece of action-comedys, and the best part in this series of movies (I have a wonderful korean box with 1-5). G.I. Samurai was the first japanese movie I saw, and what an experience! Violent action, cools stunts, interesting drama and the best big battle in history. And this was the cut, dubbed version

I see now that I still consider the first asian movie I saw among the best ones, so maybe it's all nostalgia (which I really despise, but I'm probably fooling myself) and nothing else...

(and now I totally left out Godzilla, because that's a whole different story)