Asian cinema
Films from Asia
Asian cinema refers to filmmaking from Asian countries, particularly Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, India, and Taiwan.
The term gained currency as Western audiences discovered distinctive national traditions: Japanese samurai films, Hong Kong martial arts movies, Bollywood musicals, Korean thrillers.
She got into Asian cinema through Kurosawa films.
The category is broad, spanning art house to commercial genres.
- BollywoodIndian film industry
- kung fuChinese martial discipline
- wire fuHarness-enabled acrobatic fighting
- samuraiFeudal Japanese military caste
- animeJapanese cartoon art form
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- Asian studiesKorean language, Chinese history, Japanese history, Japanese literature, Chinese philosophy
- World CinemaFrench New Wave, Bollywood, Nollywood, Tollywood, Swedish film
- arthouse cinemaarthouse, art films, art house films, indie films, foreign films
- representationproportional representation, diverse casting, visibility, representation matters, marginalized voices
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