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StoneKeeper's Movie Guessing Game: I Recommend THIS Movie #1784 [The Battle of Port Arthur (1980) Winner: tcrum]


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.

For each guess, a connection is posted. Example of connections: Actor, length, genre, aspect ratio, language, country, year, director, actor, writer in common, rating, number of votes, nominations. It can even be something like: both movies involve Cabbage Patch Kids. Also, you can use Metascore color or rating, Rotten Tomatoes score, any award wins or nominations in common, same number of words in the title, plot keywords. Note: "Plot" in the IMDB advanced search links to "Plot Summary" on the film's page. "Keyword" in the advanced search links to "Plot Keyword" on the film's page.

Helpful search engine: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/ Click on Feature Film and TV Movie. Then modify for the hints as they are posted.

- 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 15 incorrect guesses the point goes to the OP and he/she gets to start another one.
- Movie must have at least 3500 IMDB votes. Otherwise, add a bonus hint. No documentaries.
- Maximum 2 guesses per player per hint.
- Can't edit a guess once posted. Delete ONLY
- Post one Hint at a time.


Under 3500 votes

Hint 1: The Young Savages (1961) - IMDb rating in the 6s.
Hint 2: Detention (2019) - Setting is in Asia.
Hint 3: Deliver Us from Evil (2020) - Japanese is spoken in the movie.
Hint 4: Midori (1992) - Release date earlier than 2000.
Hint 5: House of Bamboo (1955) - Drama genre.
Hint 6: Flirt (1995) - Japanese is not the only language spoken in the movie, and the movie is partly set outside of Japan.
Hint 7: Ley Lines (1999) - Fewer than 1,600 votes on IMDb.
Hint 8: Three Businessmen (1998) - Fewer than 10 user reviews on IMDb.
Hint 9: Why Not? (1981) - The story involves actual historical events.
Hint 10: Captive Hearts (1987) - War genre.
Hint 11: Ba bai zhuang shi (1976) - Runtime longer than 2 hours.
Hint 12: Rengô kantai shirei chôkan: Yamamoto Isoroku (1968) - Toshiro Mifune is in the movie!

Tcrum has correctly guessed The Battle of Port Arthur (1980), also known by its Japanese name of 203 Kōchi (Hill 203), a movie set in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 and specifically the battle for Port Arthur (now Dalian) on the Liaodong Peninsula of northeastern China. Very few movies deal with the Russo-Japanese War, which is one of the relatively lesser-known wars of the modern world despite its historical significance. It's a fairly well-made movie, though it has some ideological issues in that it sort of whitewashes Japan's own responsibility for the war and its own colonial ambitions, instead presenting it as something Japan was forced into. That being said, it's a pretty decently made war film despite its questionable ideological leaning.

Scoreboard:
FredBurroughs: 341
hownos: 266
LauraGrace: 197
nyctc7: 147
Allaby: 135
Kawada_Kira: 116
MonStar: 112
StoneKeeper: 106
tcrum: 104
lud: 100 (EMERITUS)
dmac8: 44
SkyCoyote5150: 25
Vastuntitled: 25
KvlhokVjequs: 16
twinA: 12
zeesha: 6
bellington83: 4
SomeCodhopper: 4
TalkinPikchorBox: 3
SamGerard: 3
Stratego: 3
Boromir: 3
KasparHauser: 2
MinaVladimir: 1
godewey: 1
ShogunofYonkers: 1
Damosuzuki: 1
sslssg: 1
Kowalski: 1
TexasJack: 1

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Battle of the Japan Sea 1969

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Admiral Yamamoto (1968)

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The Battle of Port Arthur (1980)

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That is the correct answer! I'm not sure if it counts as a win though, because it's past the 15-guess mark. I wanted to give you a few minutes to reconsider your Battle of the Japan Sea guess, which is why my answer is delayed. I can invalidate your Admiral Yamamoto guess on the grounds that you already guessed it and I gave hint 12 based on it. But that still makes this one guess #16.

What does everybody else think? Hownos, StoneKeeper, Fred, Laura? Can I declare tcrum the winner on this one? I certainly think she deserves it, as she worked very hard for this win and I've been rooting for her on it.

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I think I got the win...You have to switch up your genres...I know You like Foreign films but they are really difficult.

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Congrats on a very hard-earned win. :)

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Thanks I love japanese movies but they are really tough.

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Well I think it's more my fault than the fault of the movie itself lol. I probably could have given better hints on some of the guesses. For instance, with hint 9 I could have gone with "release date in the 1980s", and I did strongly consider it, but I thought it better to give a non-searchable hint that would force the players to think rather than just check the boxes. It can be difficult to strike the right balance. I actually didn't expect this movie to be as tough as it turned out to be lol.

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no don't second guess yourself...Most of these guys make is so easy you feel cheap. I'm happy with the outcome.

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Glad you feel that way. :) I do try to mix it up a bit, it's not as fun when all the games give the same stock hints every time. Gotta be a bit creative whenever possible.

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Well mix it up a bit more..I knew from clue 1 it was going to be a foreign film..Its like me and Horror, everyone here knows its my genre, so I try to step outside when I can.

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Clue 1 was that the movie was rated in the 6s, it didn't say anything about where it was from. But, well, I don't agree with the use of the word "foreign" in general, as this is a multinational website on the internet where people can be posting from anywhere; all the American movies here would be foreign too, to people in Europe or Asia or elsewhere. As for myself, I watch movies from a wide range of places. Primarily in English and Japanese, but also a fair bit from other parts of the world. Somewhere around half of the movies I recommend here are in English. It makes sense for my recommendations here to reflect the geographical range of movies I watch. I do recommend a lot of American movies, but I won't go out of my way to avoid using movies from other places if I like them and think they're worth recommending.

I'm not mad/annoyed at you by the way; I'm just explaining my thinking on this.

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Incidentally, I actually keep a list of where the movies I recommend here come from. I first made the list a long time ago when this issue came up before, the fact that I use a lot of non-American movies here, and I was curious about the ratio of American vs non-American movies I use. At the time, the results showed that about half the movies I used then were from the US. Since then, I've continued updating the list just for the sake of curiosity/amusement. I've recommended 119 movies here so far, and their geographical range is as follows:

Japan: 35
United States: 33
India: 6
United Kingdom: 5
Soviet Union: 5
Spain: 4
China: 4
Iran: 3
France: 3
DPRK: 3
Ireland: 2
Canada: 2
Cuba: 2
Mexico: 1
Algeria: 1
Chile: 1
Libya: 1
Palestine: 1
Hungary: 1
Albania: 1
Romania: 1
Germany: 1
Egypt: 1
Italy: 1
Pakistan: 1

If anything, I don't use enough "foreign" movies lol. The European ones are sorely lacking, considering how many great movies have been made in places like France and Italy. And I've only done a few each from Africa and Latin America.

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Oasis its the best unknown foreign film Ive seen, Shower 1999 but its unwatchable unless you pay 70 bucks for dvd.

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I haven't yet seen those ones, I'll have to check them out. Oasis is a Korean movie from 2002, right?

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yes. Not many movies stick with me after 20 years..These two are worth it.

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I'll definitely look out for them.

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If I can throw out eleven hints for Magic Mike, there's a lot of possibilities out there.

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Kawada, one of my favorite miniseries is Fall of Eagles (1974). Check out this brief discussion between Nicholas II (Charles Kay) and his ministers/advisors. It cuts to Wilhelm II (Barry Foster) who makes a bit of a racial slur, sorry about that part.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw4KiKu-Wgk&t=8m15s

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I love Fall of Eagles too, it's a really good series. It's been a few years since I last watched it though. But that scene got me in the mood to watch it again, I think I'm gonna have to do so.

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Oh, as for racial slurs, it's no secret that early 20th century Europe was racist as hell lol. So was Japan for that matter. And so are both Europe and Japan today, though less so than back then. I think that in the interests of historical accuracy it's acceptable to show racism in historical productions, as long as such views don't seem to be being endorsed by the narrative. But simply showing it is fine. It would be inaccurate to present pre-WWI Europe as racially enlightened.

There's some racism in the movie I recommended in this round too. The Russians in the movie use racial slurs for the Japanese several times, and some of the Japanese characters use racial slurs as well. The Russians call the Japanese "monkeys", the Japanese call the Russians "Rosuke" (露助), which is basically the same thing as "Russkie", a derogatory word for Russians. Basically both sides present the other as savages. Though some on both sides are also presented as decent people. Anyway it's historically accurate, that time period was really bad with the racism.

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I think you're giving us a lot more credit then we deserve. You're movies are just really complicated.

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Very well stated 👍

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Just give tcrum the point. Clearly it's earned.

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That's certainly my inclination. Just wasn't sure if I'm allowed to do so, so I was wondering what you guys think. But yeah, you're right.

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:)

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The Militarists (1970)

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