5. Gong Li (44)
Chinese
Issn’t the 2nd picture enough? Even though you probably last saw her on American screens with Hannibal Rising, which well… wasn’t that good, and hasn’t really had anything on screen, it’s hard to forget her not only in Memoirs of a Geisha, but also as the Empress on Curse of the Golden Flower. But do not fret. Lady is making a comeback in Mikael Håfström’s Shanghai, which will open in China next month… and because the film stars John Cusack, Chow Yun-fat, Ken Watanabe, Franka Potente and Rinko Kikuchi, it will probably be on screens around the world.
6. Xun Zhou (35)
Chinese
Xun Zhou burst into the film stage 10 years ago when she won Best Actress at the Paris film fest for Suzhou River, and has continued gathering accolades throughout her successful career with films like Perhaps Love, The Equation of Love and Death, and The Message.
I don’t think she’s ever been on American theaters, but she could if some distributor wanted to get the rights for Confucius, or maybe the martial arts film True Legend.
I have some more Korean girls for u if u want them….
Yoona – SNSD (bare with me here, she is cute as hell and has a really pure image that is not nauseating)
Gummy – I like me some MILFS!
Ivy
Eugene (former S.E.S)
Kim Taehee (although I do not get why she is so damn popular)
Hwang Bo (she is fierce as hell and so UNF)
I could go on forever… I better stop! >_<
girl, i just finished writing this LOL
it took me hours! I’m so behind on other stuff now.
This list is awesome! I’m putting together a list of 2010’s hottest women and I’m totally grabbing some of your suggestions for Hot Asians. The Maxim Hot 2010 list was completely skewed and no Asians were included there either. I wrote a whole article about it.
Check it out!
Thanks again!
No Shu Qi (or Qi Shu, I have no idea)? Like SNL would say, really? It kills me just to look at her. :)
I suspect only men younger than 35 (and if they are older… what is wrong with you, man?) take into account Maxim. To be honest, though, any list is bound to have people saying the list is missing “such”, but at least we are not boasting on a name. xD
I guess
The Maxim Hot 2010
wouldn’t be as cool if it were called
The Maxim Hot 2010:
The 100 hottest white women, and then some on mainstream entertainment
because we don’t ever watch foreign films because subtitles confuse us
and distract us from looking at hot women on screen
and we don’t watch foreign shows because we didn’t know the internet
could be use to find hot women on shows that weren’t in English…
and we don’t listen (or watch music videos on youtube) to foreign music,
because we don’t understand what they’re singing about…
how else would we know Katy Perry was singing about kissing a girl,
if it weren’t in English.
Anyway…
Marisol, I did considered adding Qi Shu (though Shu Qi has a nicer ring to it, but since most the audience is from the West, to avoid complications), but in the end I couldn’t because I wasn’t aware of any film or tv projects that would have put her on American screens in 2009, this year or next.
I know she was on New York I Love You, but I mostly know her from her modelling for Kenzo, or in music videos. And I didn’t even add Ziyi Zhang to the list… mainly because everyone in the west know her, and I was trying to boast other talents.
What can I say, I am ninja like that. U know I stalk your blog woman! Do not be so surprised!
@Eryn-Ashlei Bailey: don’t forget the sexy Latin mamis, Indian goddesses and powerful black women! XD
awww, Julz.
you make me go all jumpy claps xD
Great list, these girls are all stunning!
About Zhao wei, she played a lesbian (or bisexual, it´s not shown whether her character´s into men) in the Hong Kong action movie So Close, her character flirted with, and at one point kisses, the policewoman investigating her. Incidentally the movie also stars Shu Qi, previously mentioned in the comments section.
Oh, really?
I didn’t know that.
Always good to hear movie connections xD and 6 Degrees of Separation~~~
OMG!! You’re so true!! I didn’t realise it if you didn’t mention it..There’s no Asian on the list!!!!
Totally agree with you with Hyori, BoA and Gong Li!! They’re so hot!!! ;)
I would like to add one, Rene Liu, the Taiwanese singer!! I lover her so much!!!!
Just wondering do you know of any Asian celebrities that are gay?
BAM!
http://community.livejournal.com/aramatheydidnt/826507.html
wenny, Rene Liu totally slipped my mind xD I recently heard her last album, and when I looked her up, I was surprised to find out she was on 20 30 40, which I guess readers of AfterEllen should watch, since it has a lesbian storyline storyline, right?.
(S)he,
No, I’m not aware if anybig popular actor/singer is gay. At least it’s not something they talk about in interviews – since they don’t really talk about their private lives on shows, and I don’t read Asian celebrity gossip. But check this out about Japan according to Wiki. I know there are a few transgendered women or cross-dressing entertainers in Japan that I have even seen performing on NHK international, which is like the national channel.
There’s people like Ai Haruna, Ayana Tsubaki, Aya Kamikawa, Ataru Nakamura, Akihiro Miwa who is often featured on shows in NHK acting and talking about the arts and beauty, Kenichi Mikawa who sings very often on the Japan’s Song show, and sometimes guests on the NHK singing contest.
and Julz, Satomi Ishihara… was on Voice with Eita, right? And she was Yoshitsune’s “I miss my mommy” Love Interest. Aha! I knew it hahaha.
And damn, how come Playboy France and Playboy Japan have classy photoshoots?
Girl, I was asking the same question over at twitter. I prefer the classy over the tacky! (sorry jessica simpson)
And to further answer (S)he’s question. Japan is a bit more tolerant when it comes to homosexuality. They do embrace it and they are oki with it as long as it is not to flamboyant. Mostly, homosexuality is looked upon as a form of entertainment. Although, an idol or an actor/actress does not have much to gain with coming out. They are hardly allowed to date as it is. Thing are the same all around in Asia, you find more hypocrisy in Korea though. They tend to play the homosexuality card a lot more (cross-dressing, innuendoes and flamboyant-ness) in the entertainment world but there is no way that they would accept a public figure as being homosexual. Which is quite sad and frustrating.
And as a response to some AfterEllen comments…
I know most of the users are probably American, this is why I tried to add people who had been on American theaters with a movie, or had the possibility of being broadcast in some channel. Of course, they would be foreign programs with subtitles, but they would be available in your country. Case and point, NHK’s period drama Atsuhime featuring Bonus #1 Aoi Miyazaki was broadcast on San Francisco’s KTSF, and maybe some other places.
Look, I’m not French… yet I watch TV5 from time to time because it’s available in my country. I watch CNN and get info when I watch the Screening Room, and sometimes the interviews on Talk Asia. I watch American entertainment, as well as European flims/music, and Asian entertainment. If I had a middle-eastern friend who were willing to guide me through middle eastern entertainment, I’d be more than willing. By the way, Bollywood films are a guilty pleasure. LOL
Anyway, the problem isn’t that users are American, but it seems like voting was based on what was most mainstream, which is a lot of white women in no-need-for-subtitling programming.
And by the way, Nana (played on film by Mika Nakashima) is so totally gay, and she either doesn’t know it, or just pretends she isn’t. LOL
Nana (the first movie) starred Nakashima and Bonus #1 Aoi Miyazaki, and if I remember correctly… they lip-locked in it. I remember, because my dad (who’s the coolest) was surprised.
Nana 2 had Nakashima reprising her role as Nana, but Miyazaki was replaced by Yui Ichikawa. The film is a whole lot melodramatic, and Ichikawa lacks the Miyazaki charisma, but you also feel like Nana could be totally in love with her friend.
Thanks for responding Julili.
Por fin una lista donde no aparecen las SNSD y sobretodo Yoona, la peor de todas.
PD: Horikita Maki es un ángel.
Jajaja, has leido los comments?
Julz sugirio SNSD y Yoona x’D