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Ilia’s 2025 Asian Cinema Challenge

Original challenge:
boxd.it/zCtgO

UPD 30.12.25
With one day left till the New Year and four films to go, I'm marking a failure to complete my 2025 challenge. Anyway, it was pretty successful for me and out of 48 that I did see, I rated 17 with 4 stars and higher.

TOP 5:
Unknown Pleasures (Directed by Jia Zhangke)
Double Suicide (Scored by Toru Takemitsu)
A Legend or Was It? (Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita)
The Daughter-in-Law (Cinema of Central Asia)
If I Were for Real (Chinese Dissident Cinema)

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  • Every-Night Dreams
  • An Inn in Tokyo
  • Address Unknown
  • A Good Lawyer's Wife
  • Cyclo
  • Mukhsin
  • Still Life
  • The Confession
  • Amreeka
  • Udaan
  • Linda Linda Linda
  • A Colt Is My Passport
  • Made in Hong Kong
  • Unknown Pleasures
  • And Then
  • Splatter: Naked Blood
  • The Hole
  • Seeding of a Ghost
  • Motorcycle Girl
  • Black Snow
  • Season of the Devil
  • Daughter
  • Purana Mandir
  • A Bittersweet Life
  • This Is My Country
  • On the Beat
  • Double Suicide
  • Funeral Parade of Roses
  • A Legend or Was It?
  • Wishing Stairs
  • Wolf Children
  • The Daughter-in-Law
  • The Fortress
  • Execution in Autumn
  • Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness
  • Ashes of Time
  • Glasses
  • Nezha Conquers the Dragon King
  • If I Were for Real
  • Crazed Fruit
  • Green Snake
  • Whispering Sands
  • The Secret Face
  • Tale of Cinema
  • Lonely Heart
  • Stranger Eyes
  • The Peeping Tom
  • Typhoon Club
  • The Joy Luck Club
  • Arzé
  • Goyokin
  • The Extras