PROGRESS 20/52
2026 Asian Cinema Challenge template from @revchu--thanks for hosting again!
Year 2 for me! I got 40 out of 52 last year, so I carried over almost all 12 I didn't get to last year. Let's see if I pace myself better in 2026.
To give myself a better chance of finishing, I need to sub some categories to fit in some Asian movies I am eager to see, so I'm combining some categories where a movie can cover 2 categories, and replacing with categories from other movies.
Week 1 - Critic List: The "Asian Cinema 100" from the 2025 Busan Film Festival
Week 2 - Asian Women Directors Top 100 also Week 42, Chinese Women Directors)
Week…
PROGRESS 20/52
2026 Asian Cinema Challenge template from @revchu--thanks for hosting again!
Year 2 for me! I got 40 out of 52 last year, so I carried over almost all 12 I didn't get to last year. Let's see if I pace myself better in 2026.
To give myself a better chance of finishing, I need to sub some categories to fit in some Asian movies I am eager to see, so I'm combining some categories where a movie can cover 2 categories, and replacing with categories from other movies.
Week 1 - Critic List: The "Asian Cinema 100" from the 2025 Busan Film Festival
Week 2 - Asian Women Directors Top 100 also Week 42, Chinese Women Directors)
Week 3 - Acting: Asian Film Award Nominations
Week 4 - Made in the Philippines / alt
Week 5 - Actor or Director: Sylvia Chang
Week 6 - Made in Korea / alt / alt
Week 7 - Anti-Bushido Samurai Films
Week 8 - Made in Taiwan / alt
Week 9 - Music!
Week 10 - Made in Palestine
Week 11 - Cinema Judaica
Week 12 - Queer Asian Cinema
Week 13 - China's Sixth Generation Movement (SUB: Starring Maggie Cheung)
Week 14 - Medium: Japanese OVA
Week 15 - Director: Yim Soon-rye
Week 16 - Hong Kong Film Archive's Must-See Hong Kong Films
Week 17 - Asian Cinema with Major International Award Recognition
Week 18 - Korean Queer Cinema
Week 19 - Director: Johnnie To
Week 20 - Japanese Experimental Film / alt
Week 21 - Crime!
Week 22 - Indian Women Directors
Week 23 - Post-Apocalyptic Asian Cinema
Week 24 - Banned in China (also Week 42, Chinese Women Directors)
Week 25 - Made in the Middle East / alt
Week 26 - Chinese Diaspora Queer Cinema (watched Farewell My Concubine and Peking Opera Blues last year, so SUB Director: Shinya Tsukamoto)
Week 27 - Made in Singapore or Malaysia (watched the excellent Ilo Ilo from Singapore last year, so SUB: Kaiju)
Week 28 - Not Bollywood: Regional Indian Films
Week 29 - Actor: Song Kang-ho
Week 30 - For Your Consideration: Taiwan Post-New Wave
Week 31 - Made in India / alt
Week 32 - Auteur: Hideaki Anno
Week 33 - Trains! (SUB: Director Yasuzo Masumura)
Week 34 - India Adjacent: Watch a film from Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, or Pakistan (SUB: Starring Shinya Tsukamoto)
Week 35 - Director: Trinh T. Minh-ha (SUB: Made in Vietnam)
Week 36 - Hong Kong Comedic Cinema
Week 37 - Japanese Women Directors (SUB: Director: Sion Sono)
Week 38 - Made in Southeast Asia / alt
Week 39 - Sageuk: Korean Historical Dramas
Week 40 - Student Animation: Geidai
Week 41 - Pre-revolution (1979) Iranian Cinema (SUB: Director Abbas Kiarostami)
Week 42 - Chinese Women Directors (SUB: Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Week 43 - Asian Noir
Week 44 - Any Film Nominated for Asian Film Award
Week 45 - Sports! (SUB: Based on a videogame)
Week 46 - Tokusatsu Films
Week 47 - Chinese New Documentary Movement (SUB: Seishun Eiga: New Japanese Cinema)
Week 48 - Asian Film in the Criterion Collection
Week 49 - For Your Consideration: Post-6th Generation Chinese Cinema
Week 50 - Japanese Ero-Guro Film
Week 51 - Cinema of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
Week 52 - Asian Anthology Film
