Celebrate Asian Cinema

From Ang Lee to Wong Kar-wai to Bong Joon-ho, celebrate Asian cinema with this collection featuring some the Angelika’s favorites!

Director/Writer Hirokazu Koreeda's "charming, richly textured fable" of a life-sized blow up doll who develops a soul and falls in love.
Air Doll
  • 2009
Anthony Chen's classy and well-measured teacher-student drama that will get you weeping.
Wet Season
  • 2021
Prolific auteur Takashi Miike at his most fun and anarchic. A noir-tinged, genre-bending yakuza film.
First Love
  • 2019
Director/Writer Lee Chang-dong crafts a slow-burn that "sizzles with a cumulative power that will knock the wind out of you" (Rolling Stone)
Burning
  • 2018
Japanese animation powerhouse Studio Ghibli explores a new creative direction with Dutch animator Michaël Dudok de Wit's mesmerizing work.
The Red Turtle
  • 2017
A "sly comic parable" (Variety) constructed by Director Feng Xiaogang, bolstered by a standout performance from lead actress Fan Bingbing.
I Am Not Madame Bovary
  • 2016
Hao Wu and Weixi Chen's raw and intimate portrait of the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan.
76 Days
  • 2020
Yeon Sang-ho's wildly successful film “pulses with relentless locomotive momentum" (Variety).
Train to Busan
  • 2016
Director Yeon Sang-ho delivers the next nail-biting chapter in his post-apocalyptic world.
Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula
  • 2020
16-year-old Riyo journeys to Hawaii in 1918 to marry a man she has never met, except through photographs and letters they have exchanged.
Picture Bride
  • 1994
Meticulously crafted by director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. An "entrancing, original and hypnotic" (Little White Lies) Palme d'Or winner.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  • 2010
Legendary Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien wowed audiences with this awe-inspiring film, a wondrous take on the traditional wuxia film
The Assassin
  • 2015
Director Kim Seong-hun delivers "a harrowing spectacle that makes one forget to breathe" (Seattle Times)
Tunnel
  • 2016
Director/Writer Wong Kar Wai proves himself to be "a cinematic grandmaster in action" (Rolling Stone) with this Oscar nominated epic.
The Grandmaster
  • 2013
Director Jung Byung-Gil's stylish, kinetic action-thriller that gives a welcome shot of adrenaline to the classic femme fatale story.
The Villainess
  • 2017
Groundbreaking, post-apocalyptic sci-fi epic from director Bong Joon Ho, set on a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Snowpiercer
  • 2013
Bullets fly in award-winning director Johnnie To’s showdown between cops, robbers, and everyone else caught in the crossfire.
Three
  • 2016
Director/writer Sngmoo Lee's undeniably electric, fun free-for-all whose eclectic surrealness will prove hard to resist.
The Warrior's Way
  • 2010
Director Jin-ho Hur crafts "an immersively sensual experience" (Hollywood Reporter) based on the French novel
Dangerous Liaisons
  • 2012
Na Hong-jin’s meticulously crafted, unbelievably tense supernatural thriller is "deliciously entertaining. You'll be left breathless" (The Playlist).
The Wailing
  • 2016
Hong Kong action legend Chow Yun Fat stars in Wen Jiang's hyper-violent, pitch-black action-comedy.
Let The Bullets Fly
  • 2010
Johnnie To crafts "a deeply intelligent, exhilarating and eminently satisfying adult crime story" (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Drug War
  • 2013
Hong-Soo Park's story of a son who follows in his father's footsteps as a spy, in order to protect his younger sister.
Commitment
  • 2013
Director Lu Chan's gripping tale centers on an excavation team who are left buried underground after an explosion.
Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe
  • 2015
Iconic Japanese swordsman Zatoichi returns to the silver screen in Takeshi Kitano's action-packed tale.
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
  • 2003
Director/Writer Yi'nan Diao's "great art-house noir that thrives on both contextual and visual level" (Asian Movie Pulse)
Black Coal, Thin Ice
  • 2014