ONE-INCH - The Best of Asian Cinema

'Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.'

This is how director Bong Joon-ho, director of 2019s acclaimed Parasite, honoured every foreign language masterpiece that had been snubbed before. Today on Beyond Ghibli, I'm discussing my own favourites from Asian cinema, and explore how Parasite's success is changing the way foreign media is being created and consumed, both at home and abroad.

00:00 Introduction - And the Oscar goes to...
03:25 KOREA - The Handmaiden
08:32 The reductive stereotype of Weird Japan
10:20 JAPAN SIDE A - Linda Linda Linda
11:46 JAPAN SIDE B - Swing Girls
13:54 THAILAND - Bad Genius
17:22 Conclusion

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