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15 Great Dancing Scenes from Asian Movies

8. Mei dances in front of Captain Leo (House of Flying Daggers, Zhang Yimou, 2004, China) 

In a triumph of visual maximalism, Zhang Ziyi performs in astonishing fashion in front of Andy Lau

9. Disco in an underground dance party in the 80’s China (Shanghai Dreams, Gao Yuanyuan, 2005, China)

The “Chinese Travolta” gives a great performance in front of a large audience.

10. Dance Festival (Zatoichi, Takeshi Kitano, 2003, Japan)

In the film’s finale, and in a totally unexpected and out of context scene, almost the whole cast performs a dance

11. Faye is dancing  as she is working in a fast-food (Chungking Express, Wong Kar Wai, 1994, Hong Kong)

Faye Wong is dancing to “California Dreaming”.

12. Mother and daughter dancing (The Taste of Rice Flower, Pengfei, 2017, China)

Yang Ze and Ye Bule perform a traditional dance in a sacred cave, in a surrealistic scene that highlights the fact they have found some common ground

13. A stripper is dancing in a club in the middle of nowhere while Shiratori is peeking from a hole (9 Souls, Toshiaki Toyoda, 2003, Japan)

Takako Matsu is strip dancing, while Mame Yamada is watching, in a highly surrealistic scene

14. Sivudu dances after carrying the altar to the waterfall (Baahuballi: The Beginning, S.S. Rajamouli, 2015, India)

After saving his mother from a tremendous torment, Prabhas performs a celebratory dance, with the rhythm capturing the whole village

15. Su Li-zhen and Chow Mo-wan dancing (In The Mood for Love, Wong Kar Wai, 2000, Hong Kong)

Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung are dancing in a deleted scene from the movie.

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Panos Kotzathanasis

My name is Panos Kotzathanasis and I am Greek. Being a fan of Asian cinema and especially of Chinese kung fu and Japanese samurai movies since I was a little kid, I cultivated that love during my adolescence, to extend to the whole of SE Asia.

Starting from my own blog in Greek, I then moved on to write for some of the major publications in Greece, and in a number of websites dealing with (Asian) cinema, such as Taste of Cinema, Hancinema, EasternKicks, Chinese Policy Institute, and of course, Asian Movie Pulse. in which I still continue to contribute.

In the beginning of 2017, I launched my own website, Asian Film Vault, which I merged in 2018 with Asian Movie Pulse, creating the most complete website about the Asian movie industry, as it deals with almost every country from East and South Asia, and definitely all genres.

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  • I also loved Faye Wong’s musical number from CHINESE ODYSSEY 2002, which is cut from some versions of the movie.

    Like the rest of that movie, it’s very charmng and puts a smile on your face. And Faye Wong is luminous, as usual.

  • Some classy funny dances in korean movie (2004) Dance with the Wind and lot of funny dances in early 2000s korean comedy movies

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