Started: 1/3/25
Completed: 16
New Films: 16
Rewatches: 0
Seen in Theaters: 14

First Film: 1/3: Branded to Kill
Quarter Mark: 8/3 - The Fall of Otrar
Halfway Mark:
3/4ths Mark:
Final Film:

Additional challenges:
-Doubling up on directors is not allowed.
-Rewatches allowed only if I see them in a theater AND I did not see the movie in 2024.

1. Silent Film From Asia
2. Shomin-geki: Japanese Home Dramas
3. Asian Cinema With International Awards Recognition -1/19
4. Korean Film Archive Top 100
5. Made in Vietnam
6. Southeast Asia Top 100
7. Iranian New Wave - 1/11
8. Middle East Top 100
9. Cinema of Palestine
10. Indian Experimental/ Alternative Cinema
11. Asian Coming of Age Films 7/13
12. Top 100 Yakuza Films - 1/3
13. Top 100 Hong Kong
14. Directed by Jia Zhangke - 4/40
15. Asian Slow Cinema
16. K or J Horror
17. Directed by Tsai Ming-liang, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, or Edward Yang
18. Category III Hong Kong Sleaze
19. Cinema of Pakistan
20. Mainland China Top 100 - 1/26
21. Directed by Lav Diaz
22. Made in Thailand - 7/15
23. Indian Horror
24. Korean New Wave
25. Filipino Top 250
26. Directed by Chinese Woman
27. Scored by Toru Takemitsu
28. Asian LGBTQ
29. Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita
30. Directed by Korean Woman
31. Critically Beloved Anime - 1/12
32. Cinema of Central Asia
33. Composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto
34. Taiwanese film from the Top 100 NOT directed by Tsai Ming-liang, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, or Edward Yang
35. Directed by Japanese Woman
36. Wuxia Films
37. Directed by Naoko Ogigami
38. Chinese Animation
39. Chinese Dissident Cinema
40. Taiyōzoku/Sun Tribe Films
41. Directed by Tsui Hark
42. Made in Indonesia
43. Made in Turkey
44. Directed by Hong Sang-soo
45. Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
46. Made in Singapore
47. Golden Harvest Studio - 7/19
48. Seishun Eiga: New Japanese Cinema
49. Asian American Cinema
50. Directed by Arab Women
51. Watch the Original: Asian Edition
52. The Asian film that has been on your watchlist the longest.