An attempt at listing my favourites of all the movies I saw in 2004 (not necessarily released in 2004), roughly ordered from really great to great:
- Twilight Samurai
- Take Care Of My Cat (고양이를 부탁해)
- Happy End (해피엔드)
- Tokyo Biyori
- Kikujiro
- I Wish I Had A Wife (나도아내가있었으면좋겠다)
- Nabi
- Someone Special (아는 여자)
- In America
- Sunrise (with live soundtrack by Lambchop)
- 21 Grams
- Matchstick Men
- A Scene At The Sea
- Last Life In The Universe
- Millennium Actress
- Simon
- Bright Future
- My Mother, The Mermaid
- The Vertical Ray of the Sun
- Ping Pong
- Green Tea
Update: calculation of cast and crew members appearing more than once in this list:
- Do-yeon Jeon (3x)
- Tadanobu Asano (3x)
- Kitano Takeshi (2x)
- Heung-Sik Park (2x)
- Christopher Doyle (2x)
Update 2: added original Unicode movie titles in tooltips.
I found myself making a big shift in my movie viewing habits this year, avoiding the latest Hollywood stuff and diving more and more into the rich world that is South-Korean and Japanese cinema, thanks to sites like http://koreanfilm.org/ and http://midnighteye.com/ .