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StoneKeeper's Super Awesome Movie Guessing Game: I recommend THIS Movie #1058 [Shang Gan Ling (1956), guessed by Kowalski]

posted 5 years ago by Kawada_Kira (7282)
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I have a movie in mind and you have to guess which one it is. For each movie you guess, I will give a hint that connects your guess with the movie I have in mind.

Example of connections: Actor, length, genre, aspect ratio, language, country, year, director, writer in common, rating, number of votes, nominations. It can even be something like: both movies involve Cabbage Patch Kids.

Helpful search engine: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/

- The winner can either start a new game or say "pass". In case of a pass, the OP gets to start another one.
- After 12 hints and 13 guesses, the point goes to the OP and he/she gets to start another one.
- Movie must have at least 3500 votes. Otherwise, add a bonus hint.
- Maximum 2 guesses per player per hint.
- Can't edit a guess once posted. Delete ONLY.

Bonus hint: Under 3500 votes.
Hint 1: The Daughters of Fire (2018) - English is not spoken in the movie.
Hint 2: The Mirror (1997) - Setting is in Asia.
Hint 3: Better Days (2019) - Mandarin language.
Hint 4: Kaili Blues (2015) - IMDb rating between 6.0 and 8.0.
Hint 5: Spring in a Small Town (1948) - Black and white.
Hint 6: Street Angel (1937) - Fewer than 1,000 votes on IMDb.
Hint 7: Song at Midnight (1937) - Runtime longer than one hour and 45 minutes.
Hint 8: Mr. No Problem (2016) - Drama genre.
Hint 9: A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016) - The story involves actual historical events.
Hint 10: 7 Letters (2015) - The movie has more than one director.
Hint 11: The Summer is Gone (2016) - Release date in a year that contains the number 6.
Hint 12: A Borrowed Life (1994) - Setting is in the 1950s.

Kowalski wins his first victory and joins the scoreboard with Shang Gan Ling (1956), an excellent though sadly little-known (outside of China, at least) movie about a battle in the Korean War from the Chinese perspective. It's a very good and well-made movie which can be found with English subtitles if you look around enough, which I highly recommend.

Scoreboard:
FredBurroughs: 199
Hownos: 145
LauraGrace: 133
Allaby: 128
lud: 100 (EMERITUS)
Nyctc7: 86
StoneKeeper: 81
Kawada_Kira: 56
dmac8: 44 (EMERITUS)
SkyCoyote5150: 25 (EMERITUS)
KvlhokVjequs: 15
tcrum: 14
twinA: 12
SomeCodhopper: 4
SamGerard: 3
Stratego: 3
KasparHauser: 2
Vastuntitled: 1
MinaVladimir: 1
godewey: 1
ShogunofYonkers: 1
Damosuzuki: 1
sslssg: 1
Kowalski: 1

[–] Kowalski (76789) 5 years ago

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Zhang Ga the Soldier Boy (1963)

[–] Kawada_Kira (7282) 5 years ago

Doesn't work with the last hint. That movie is set in the war of resistance against Japan, which ended before the 1950s.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I think you've won then.

[–] Kawada_Kira (7282) 5 years ago

Nope, you all have one more guess. If the next guesses don't get it, then the point will go to me. But you still have one more chance.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I think I'm stumped. I'll let someone else take the last guess.

[–] Kawada_Kira (7282) 5 years ago

Ok, but I've narrowed it down quite a bit so I have a good feeling somebody will get it. There aren't a lot of black and white movies in Chinese that have more than one director and are set in the 1950s involving actual historical events.

[–] tcrum (31666) 5 years ago

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[–] tcrum (31666) 5 years ago

I feel good about this answer. Our Time Will Come 2017

[–] Kawada_Kira (7282) 5 years ago

Doesn't fit with hint 11. So you still have your last guess.

[–] tcrum (31666) 5 years ago

The Tokyo Trial 2006 My final guess.

[–] Kowalski (76789) 5 years ago

SHANG GAN LING 1956

[–] Kawada_Kira (7282) 5 years ago

That is the one! You win! Congrats. :)

[–] Kowalski (76789) 5 years ago

AWESOME!...

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

CONGRATULATIONS AND GREAT JOB!

[–] Kowalski (76789) 5 years ago

THIS SHIT IS INVOLVED...I THINK IM FINALLY FIGURING IT OUT THOUGH😎

[–] tcrum (31666) 5 years ago

If you won on this movie you should be all set. Kira is one of the toughest to win with the non-english factor.

[–] Kawada_Kira (7282) 5 years ago

Well, I don't always do non-English movies, and when I do they aren't always really obscure ones lol. One of my recent recommendations was Secondhand Lions, a pretty well-known American movie. I try to maintain variety in the movies I recommend, some well-known and some which are little-known but which I use this game to try to raise awareness of. :)

[–] tcrum (31666) 5 years ago

Well I'm keeping a word list of everyones movies so I knew where you were going.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

what word do you have for me??

[–] tcrum (31666) 5 years ago

I started one last time you won but you're all over the place. I would say you lean toward movies before 1970

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

all my favorites are older movies.

[–] tcrum (31666) 5 years ago

I'm assuming you know I would never use a movie before 1960. I just don't have that knowledge.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

i noticed this.

[–] tcrum (31666) 5 years ago

Yah well I notice you never play stupid silly movies. Its always serious movies with you. You're music is different, there I see some fun.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

This is true. My music taste is more eclectic than my movie taste. I don't know why.

[–] tcrum (31666) 5 years ago

Well I think we're on opposite sides of the movie platform. I just can't stand the tired Drama movies. I enjoyed Ready or Not, and the remake of Halloween. You'll never catch me watching A Fist Full of Dollars.

[–] Kawada_Kira (7282) 5 years ago

So, I was curious, so I looked through my list of movies I've used so far (I keep a list to make sure I don't use the same movie twice, which I almost did once) to see which ones came from which countries, and this was the final result:

United States: 19
Japan: 18
Soviet Union: 3
China: 3
Ireland: 2
United Kingdom: 2
India: 2
Canada: 1
Iran: 1
Mexico: 1
France: 1
Algeria: 1
Chile: 1
Libya: 1
DPRK: 1

I was actually surprised that the US was the highest, as I thought I recommended more Japanese movies than any other, but the US just edges Japan out. Of the 57 movies I've recommended so far, 25 were in English and 18 were in Japanese while the rest were either Russian, Chinese, Persian, Arabic, Spanish, French, Hindi or Korean. There is a bit of ambiguity with some of the movies which were international co-productions, as for example one of the American movies I counted (Barry Lyndon) could be considered Irish depending on how you look at it, but though it was set largely in Ireland and its story was about an Irish character, it was a US production so I counted it as US and not Irish. Anyway it was in English. The movies I counted as Irish were Perrier's Bounty and The Wind That Shakes the Barley. And for another example, the Libyan movie (Lion of the Desert) used primarily European actors and was spoken in English but was funded by the Libyan government, so I counted it as Libyan. But anyway, the US is (just barely) the largest source of my recommendations thus far, and of the languages of the movies I've recommended, English is the largest group.

[–] tcrum (31666) 5 years ago

I only started tracking Stonekeeper about 3 weeks ago. I was very confused by your movies , are you of Asian descent or do you actually live in an Asian Country. There is some connection there, you have too many Asian movies for it to be just random.

[–] StoneKeeper (27419) 5 years ago

I only started tracking Stonekeeper about 3 weeks ago: what's that mean? Whats the result?

[–] StoneKeeper (27419) 5 years ago

Im surprised theres not more CHinese movies.

ya racist ;p

[–] Kawada_Kira (7282) 5 years ago

LOL

[–] nyctc7 (43882) 5 years ago

CONGRATULATIONS ON GETTING ON THE BOARD!

[–] tcrum (31666) 5 years ago

You did it. Now pick something super easy to host with like Forrest Gump for your movie and its all smooth sailing.

[–] FredBurroughs (21865) 5 years ago

https://youtu.be/h1xCqptlNcM?t=140

[–] tcrum (31666) 5 years ago

Wow they mention the two movies that I can't get through, Forrest Gump and Inception. Funny.

[–] Kawada_Kira (7282) 5 years ago

I have to say, this was a really fun round. These under-3500 movies are often pretty tough, but everyone did a great job here and I think I did well with the hints, which can be challenging on lesser-known movies. It got pretty close in the end but we pulled through and a new player even joined the scoreboard. Good game!

[–] tcrum (31666) 5 years ago

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[–] Kowalski (76789) 5 years ago

THANK YOU VERY MUCH...IM STILL FIGURING THE HOST PART OUT,SO I WILL PASS THIS TIME...NEXT WIN I WILL GIVE IT A GO.

[–] Kawada_Kira (7282) 5 years ago

Ah ok, if you're passing on this one then I guess I'll host the next one too. I won't make it as difficult as this one though lol.

[–] StoneKeeper (27419) 5 years ago

Let's DO it y'all!!

[–] StoneKeeper (27419) 5 years ago

I like to hear that my man. Congrats!
Next time, get high and think of a good movie for us to guess.

[–] Kowalski (76789) 5 years ago

IVE BEEN WANTING TO SEE MY NAME ON THAT LIST...MISSION ACCOMPLISHED...SOON AS I GET THE HOST HALF FULLY FIGURED OUT,YOU WILL HAVE ANOTHER SERIOUS PLAYER.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

This is highly irregular.

[–] Kowalski (76789) 5 years ago

AS AM I😎

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

it's a foghorn leghorn quote 😊

[–] StoneKeeper (27419) 5 years ago

Funk Yeah!