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2025 Asian Cinema Challenge -- My Picks (Completed 9/24/25)

My picks for the 2025 Asian Cinema Challenge.

Links to many helpful lists are in the original post.

Completed 9/24/25.

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  • An Inn in Tokyo

    1

  • Two in the Shadow

    2

  • Parasite

    3

  • Joint Security Area

    4

  • Furie

    5

  • Insiang

    6

  • Through the Olive Trees

    7

  • Omar

    8

  • Gaza Mon Amour

    9

  • Apur Sansar

    10

  • Whisper of the Heart

    11

  • Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

    12

  • Days of Being Wild

    13

  • Ash Is Purest White

    14

  • An Elephant Sitting Still

    15

  • Jigoku

    16

  • Daughter of the Nile

    17

  • Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

    18

  • Laal Kabootar

    19

  • Farewell My Concubine

    20

  • Norte, the End of History

    21

  • Cemetery of Splendor

    22

  • Bulbbul

    23

  • Poetry

    24

  • Cleaners

    25

  • Us and Them

    26

  • Pitfall

    27

  • Funeral Parade of Roses

    28

  • A Legend or Was It?

    29

  • House of Hummingbird

    30

  • Paprika

    31

  • The Color of Pomegranates

    32

  • Tony Takitani

    33

  • Your Name Engraved Herein

    34

  • Helter Skelter

    35

  • Hero

    36

  • Rent-a-Cat

    37

  • Flavors of Youth

    38

  • Better Days

    39

  • Crazed Fruit

    40

  • Once Upon a Time in China

    41

  • The Shadow Strays

    42

  • Mustang

    43

  • Woman on the Beach

    44

  • Beijing Watermelon

    45

  • La Luna

    46

  • The Way of the Dragon

    47

  • The World of Kanako

    48

  • Saving Face

    49

  • Farha

    50

  • Dark Water

    51

  • The Lover

    52