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Asian Cinema Challenge (2025)

original list here

The typical 52 film, year long challenge that involves watching and reviewing 1 film per week. Each week has a different theme, aiming to push us viewers to explore and experience something new! 

First-time watches only :)

INCOMPLETE: 24/52

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  • The Goddess

    1

  • Floating Clouds

    2

  • Ran

    3

  • The March of Fools

    4

  • Nostalgia for the Countryside

    5

  • By the Time It Gets Dark

    6

  • The Circle

    7

  • Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds

    8

  • Return to Haifa

    9

  • Days and Nights in the Forest

    10

  • Love & Pop

    11

  • Pistol Opera

    12

  • Center Stage

    13

  • Platform

    14

  • Suzaku

    15

  • Audition

    16

  • The Assassin

    17

  • Dumplings

    18

  • Joyland

    19

  • The Black Cannon Incident

    20

  • Magellan

    21

  • Die Tomorrow

    22

  • Bulbbul

    23

  • Lady Vengeance

    24

  • Senior Year

    25

  • Sacrificed Youth

    26

  • With Beauty and Sorrow

    27

  • Funeral Parade of Roses

    28

  • The Scent of Incense

    29

  • A Girl with Closed Eyes

    30

  • My Neighbor Totoro

    31

  • The Color of Pomegranates

    32

  • The Last Emperor

    33

  • Lust, Caution

    34

  • Desert of Namibia

    35

  • Dragon

    36

  • Rent-a-Cat

    37

  • A Story About Fire

    38

  • Ju Dou

    39

  • Akira

    40

  • Shanghai Blues

    41

  • Sweet Dreams

    42

  • Mustang

    43

  • The Woman Who Ran

    44

  • School in the Crosshairs

    45

  • Yuni

    46

  • The Seventh Curse

    47

  • GO

    48

  • Strawberry Fields

    49

  • Under the Fig Trees

    50

  • Save the Green Planet!

    51

  • The Rain Women

    52