rice-sniffing yakuza, template meta-programming, mumps globals, the chinese room
any of: Yoon-Hyun Chang, Eun-Ah In, Eun-Jeong Kim, Su-Chang Kyong or Hye-Weon Shim whom I could coerce into explaining exactly what 'Tell Me Something' was actually about. bastards.
Plastikman, Aedena Cycle, Diego Cortez, Monolake, Lucine Icl
What Time Is It There, In the Mood For Love, Morvern Callar, Intacto, The Croupier, Metropolis, The Bicycle Thief, Gozu, Solaris, Tokyo Drifter, Alphaville, Shanghai Triad
The Island of the Day Before, The Inferno, Idoru, The Kingdom of the Wicked, the Cryin of Lot 9