The children of the night

I used to do SFX and my first job out of university was a shock to me because I realized motorbikes and gunshots on screen didn't sound like actual motorbikes or gunshots. I suddenly realized the studio's collection of 100 000 sound effects was useless without the experience to know which 50 effects the audience had been conditioned to accept as authentic by other films. And then there as the foleying that I helped with, in which a man kneeing a watermelon doesn't sound like a Hollywood effect, a real punch to the face doesn't sound like a Hollywood effect, but a man kneeing a watermelon with olive oil on his leg sounded "right" for reasons I can't explain.

Something I appreciate in the filming of movies is when the actors are actually shouting in loud environments (nightclubs, windstorms) because they're recorded in silence and the music/wind is added later. What this usually results in is the audio being loud to establish it's loud, then the SFX editor has to radically drop the levels because the actors have been recorded talking in their normal voices. I appreciate it when the director gives them directions to act like they're in a loud place. I was on a set once where the director had the actors put earplugs in so they HAD to yell (everyone in the scene had long hair or were given weird hats to hide the ear plugs).

Anyways, I'm watching Bullet Train Explosion right now and they just used the Wilhelm scream for a student getting punched. I had to burst out laughing because, well, it sounds right when someone falls off a cliff, not when someone falls over a train seat.

Preferably Chinese, though any great Asian film will do. I'm looking for movies that were both filmed and set in the '90s (not one or the other). I've looked up some lists and they're mostly populated with martial arts, horror, and/or cop/gang movies, but those arent quite what Im looking for. I'd really like something slice of life or dramatic that really captures the overall zeitgeist of the country in that decade. Any suggestions?

I recently watched Robot Dreams and assumed it would have a happy ending but it didn't and it made me very angry. It didn't feel poignant to me, only wrong. I thought it was a kids' movie about friendship but it's actually an adult movie about romantic relationships. Because friends can have multiple friends and don't need to move on just because they haven't seen someone in a while.

What's a movie you saw that had an unexpected ending? Did you like it or dislike it?