revchu is hosting this challenge at boxd.it/zCtgO

The idea is to watch all manner of Asian film, with 52 suggested weekly prompts (and associated starter lists provided on the challenge page), taken in any order, and freedom to go down other avenues entirely. My avenues are: films (co-)directed by women (♀️), which make up half the list; and films involving borders or migrant/diasporic directors/settings (🌐), and countries new to my letterbox map (🌏).

Tags: “asiancc2025” + a weekly tag "asiancc2025 week#" for whichever week the prompt comes from.

Prompts:

Week 1 - Silent Film From Asia ✅
Week 2 - Shomin-geki: Japanese Home Dramas ✅
Week 3 - Asian Cinema With International Awards Recognition ✅
Week 4 - Korean Film Archive Top 100 => Korean Drama Top 100 ✅
Week 5 - Made in Vietnam ✅
Week 6 - Southeast Asia Top 100 => Undocumented ✅🌐
Week 7 - Iranian New Wave ✅
Week 8 - Middle East Top 100 ✅
Week 9 - Cinema of Palestine ✅♀️🌐
Week 10 - Indian Experimental/ Alternative Cinema ✅♀️
Week 11 - Asian Coming of Age Films ✅♀️
Week 12 - Top 100 Yakuza Films ✅
Week 13 - Top 100 Hong Kong ✅
Week 14 - Directed by Jia Zhangke => Directed by Pema Tseden ✅
Week 15 - Asian Slow Cinema ✅
Week 16 - K or J Horror ✅
Week 17 - Directed by Tsai Ming-liang, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, or Edward Yang => Made in Armenia ✅
Week 18 - Category III Hong Kong Sleaze => Asian Aotearoan Cinema ✅♀️🌐
Week 19 - Cinema of Pakistan ✅♀️🌐
Week 20 - Mainland China Top 100 => Asian Canadian Cinema ✅♀️🌐
Week 21 - Directed by Lav Diaz => Directed by a Lebanese Woman ✅♀️
Week 22 - Made in Thailand ✅
Week 23 - Indian Horror ✅♀️
Week 24 - Korean New Wave ✅
Week 25 - Filipino Top 250 => Directed by a Filipina ✅♀️🌐
Week 26 - Directed by a Chinese Woman ✅♀️
Week 27 - Scored by Toru Takemitsu => Turkish Political Cinema ✅
Week 28 - Asian LGBTQ ✅♀️
Week 29 - Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita => Made in North Korea ✅ 🌐 🌏
Week 30 - Directed by a Korean Woman ✅♀️
Week 31 - Critically Beloved Anime ✅
Week 32 - Cinema of Central Asia ✅♀️
Week 33 - Composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto => Set in Asian Russia ✅
Week 34 - Taiwanese film from the Top 100 NOT directed by Tsai Ming-liang, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, or Edward Yang => Made in Brunei ✅♀️🌏
Week 35 - Directed by a Japanese Woman => Directed by a Pakistani Woman ✅ ♀️🌐
Week 36 - Wuxia Films => Set At A Border ✅ 🌐
Week 37 - Directed by Naoko Ogigami ✅ ♀️
Week 38 - Chinese Animation ✅ ♀️
Week 39 - Chinese Dissident Cinema => Time Travel ✅
Week 40 - Taiyōzoku/Sun Tribe Films => Israeli Minority Community Cinema ✅ ♀️🌐
Week 41 - Directed by Tsui Hark => Directed by Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting ✅ ♀️🌐
Week 42 - Made in Indonesia ✅ ♀️
Week 43 - Made in Turkey ✅ ♀️
Week 44 - Directed by Hong Sang-soo => Women Directors' Best Narrative Feature Films ✅ ♀️
Week 45 - Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi => Directed by an Azerbaijani Woman ✅ ♀️
Week 46 - Made in Singapore => Directed by a Syrian Woman ✅♀️🌐
Week 47 - Golden Harvest Studio => Asian European Cinema ✅ ♀️🌐
Week 48 - Seishun Eiga: New Japanese Cinema =>Made in Macao ✅ 🌏
Week 49 - Asian American Cinema ✅ ♀️🌐
Week 50 - Directed by an Arab Woman => Directed by a Saudi Arabian Woman ✅ ♀️
Week 51 - Watch the Original: Asian Edition => Made in Oman ✅ ♀️🌏
Week 52 - The Asian film that has been on your watchlist the longest. ✅