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My Tartan Asia Extreme collection so far. Pretty sure I'm only missing around 10-15 releases to complete the UK collection. Cool! Got any recommendations outside of the more popular stuff like Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike, Battle Royale? I've started & stopped this collection so many times over the years.
Need help identifying some movies from the distributor "Tartan Video." All of these images are from the Tartan Asia Extreme series of films. A simple name of the film identified in the screenshots along with a year of release is perfectly fine.
It really warmed my heart that the beginning of this Oldboy episode was an extended tribute to Tartan Asia Extreme and how it served as a gateway for so many budding cinephiles of the early 00s to all sorts of wild Asian cinema.
It also owned the US-based Tartan USA and Tartan Video. It has distributed East Asian films under the brand Tartan Asia Extreme. Between 1992 and 2003, Tartan Films operated under the name Metro-Tartan Distribution before reverting to Tartan Films. More recently, it has released films of other origins, under its Tartan Terror brand.
A list of 102 films compiled on Letterboxd, including 2LDK (2003), A Bittersweet Life (2005), A Snake of June (2002), A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) and Ab-normal Beauty (2004). About this list: A catalogue of the films released through Tartan's "Extreme Asian" label.
This is a list of all the films that were released in the UK by Tartan Films under the Tartan Asia Extreme label. A great mix of Horror, Sci-Fi, Crime, Fantasy, and outright craziness. Enjoy!
The full list of the tiles from Tartan Video's "Asia Extreme" Range. Taken from the Spring 2007 catalogue.
