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In recent years, the popularity and exposure of Asian movies has skyrocketed in the U.S. — due in part to the historic moment in 2019 when South Korean film Parasite , directed by Bong Joon Ho, became the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
In this list, you’ll find Asian-American flicks filmed in English, as well as movies in their native language with subtitles. Featuring award-winning art films, romantic comedies, thrillers, action movies, documentaries and more, this list has everything from big name directors, indie producers, and first-time filmmakers. With movies from Korea , Japan, China, the Philippines, India, the U.S. and beyond, this list will welcome you into the world of Asian cinema and turn you into an Asian film cinephile in no time. So text a friend and be prepared to laugh, cry, and be impressed by amazing stories, cast and crew.
Starring lauded comedians Ali Wong and Randall Park, this film follows the complicated relationship between old flames from San Francisco. Wong plays a celebrity chef whose new restaurant and boyfriend are threatened by her childhood love. Get ready to laugh out loud with these two legendary comedians, along with Michelle Buteau and Keanu Reeves. STREAM NOW
If you’re not already obsessed with K-Pop sensation BLACKPINK, this 2020 documentary about their humble beginnings and rise to stardom will put you over the top. Each band member heartwarmingly recounts her personal journey and her love for her bandmates, who have become friends and sisters. After you watch the movie, make sure to give the band a listen, especially their ear worm collaborations with Selena Gomez, Dua Lipa and Lady Gaga.
A Korean American favorite that premiered at Sundance in 2015, this endearing film is about teenagers of Korean descent who were born and raised in other countries like Mexico, Germany and the UK. The diverse and unruly teens travel to Seoul in 1986 to get in touch with their cultural heritage in this wholesome comedy-drama.
Based on the eponymous bestselling novel, this 2021 South Asian film follows the remarkable story of a driver for a rich Indian family who escapes from poverty and becomes an entrepreneur. What does the “white tiger” mean in the film? You’ll just have to watch to find out.
What’s a list of Asian films without some classic martial arts flicks? The four Hong Kong movies in the 2008 Ip Man series are named after the real Chinese martial artist and grandmaster of the martial art called Wing Chun whose students included Bruce Lee.
Only Bong Joon Ho could make a film about a little Korean girl and her unusual pet, a fantastical hippo-like creature, into a political statement about animal rights, ethics and corporate greed. This 2017 film features Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal at their villainous best. STREAM NOW
In this intense 2019 romantic drama about sexuality and nationality, an immigrant Filipino trans woman, who is a caretaker for an elderly woman, falls in love with the woman’s grandson who is fresh out of rehab. The film is directed and acted by Isabel Sandoval, who shot the film over just 16 days in Brooklyn.
This quirky 2018 documentary by Sandi Tan chronicles the making, disappearance and reclaiming of a film she made in 1992, when she was 19. The film won the documentary directing award at Sundance in 2018, making Tan the second Singapore-born filmmaker to win an award at the festival.
This 2016 Filipino action-comedy about two unconventional parents and their adventures is one of the highest grossing Filipino film in Philippine cinema history. After his best friend dies, Arci must take care of her two kids, whose uncle also lives with them. Taking on the roles of “momshie” and “popshie,” the two guardians tackle whatever parenthood throws at them.
After his baby sister is born, a jealous 4-year-old boy befriends fantastical pets and people that he meets in his house in this charming 2018 Japanese anime film . Conversing with strange creatures that resemble real people and animals he sees daily, the young boy matures as he makes deeper connections to his family and life.
Directed and written by a female Asian American team, this 2015 film follows a mother who has to make tough choices after being fired from her job selling cosmetic procedures. Should she sell her eggs since women are becoming rapidly infertile or sacrifice her daughter’s education at an elite school?
The first South Korean film screened in the Berlinale Special section at the Berlin International Film Festival, this dark dystopian action thriller has all the compelling plot elements of this genre: ex-prisoners, a heist, and a mysterious assassin. The film was released worldwide by Netflix in 2020.
Set in the near future, this 2019 Chinese science fiction film with super slick graphics follows heroes as they try to find a new sun and save the Earth from a collision with Jupiter. Fingers crossed this doesn’t happen in real life.
Set to a cute J-Pop soundtrack, this adorable 2021 comedy-drama romance film follows the relationship between a teen boy who best expresses himself through Haiku and a shy teen girl. The film was so popular that it inspired a manga adaptation that was published for almost two years.
In this hilarious 2021 dramedy , three former martial arts prodigies--now middle-aged men working insurance, collecting disability checks and crossing over into mixed martial arts teaching--have to get back in shape, juggle their jobs and dad life and get over old grudges to avenge their beloved mentor who was murdered.
Bong Joon Ho’s 2013 film might be your worst nightmare: the earth’s last remaining people are stuck on a train circling the globe that is divided into cars according to class. Chaos ensues in the cramped quarters, but don’t worry. Chris Evans saves the day.
You’ll remember all your high school feels in this sweet film about an Asian-American teen, played by Lara Condor, whose secret love letters get mailed to each of her five crushes. The 2018 film was so popular it inspired two sequels, which are also on Netflix.
Not all male and female leads on the big screen are romantically involved. This 2021 Filipino film chronicles a platonic friendship between a man and a woman who are often mistaken for a couple. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t some tension.
Hyper-competitive Korean workplaces, luxury vacations and a hospital love scene: this 2021 South Korean romantic comedy is about a very complicated long-distance relationship. The storylines collide at the end of the film and you’ll be hit with a plot twist that will have you questioning everything.
This Asian American coming-of-age film from 2020 draws us in with a twist on a familiar trope. To make some money, a nerdy and friendless teen girl writes love letters and texts for an awkward and inarticulate jock.
Sweet in more than one way, this 2019 Korean romantic drama is about a couple who meet at a bakery in the 90s during the Asian financial crisis. They fall in love but, as fate would have it, struggle to keep their relationship alive through the years.
A classic from 2005 that was produced by Steven Spielberg, this epic drama film follows a young Japanese girl as she becomes a geisha. The film won three academy awards, though there was controversy in Asia after its release around casting and historical accuracy.
In this dark and smoldering Korean crime drama that premiered at the 2020 Venice International Film Festival, a mob boss flees to Jeju Island after a rival gang murders his sister and niece. There he meets a terminally ill woman and they strike up an unlikely relationship.
In this 2013 movie that depicts a meeting of two lonely souls, a sad teenager who aspires to be a shoe-maker skips class to sit in a garden and meets a woman in her late twenties struggling with personal and professional problems who can relate to his melancholia.
In this 2018 movie, money, sex and privilege make the world go round for a bourgeois Korean couple who will do anything to achieve upward mobility. The husband, who is an economics professor at a top university in Seoul, conspires with his wife, the director and curator of a prestigious gallery, to climb the social ladder.
This epic Chinese martial arts film has a long history — it was adapted from a video game which was adapted from a book. When an evil but glorious serpent awakens, the YinYang masters must solve a murder mystery to protect their turf and future.
In this 2017 sci-fi mystery thriller, a father attempts to find his son who was kidnapped three years ago by diving into the world of lucid dreams. Think Inception , but with higher stakes. The film was written and directed by Kim Joon Sung in his directorial debut.
Filmed in a mix of Tagalog and English, this romantic drama set in the Philippines follows the sale of a dream house and the soulmates who bought it together. The young couple dreamed of growing old with each other, but as they found out over the years, life is complicated.
In this rare 2021 Korean film that depicts a queer relationship, two musicians fall in love at first sight. A keyboardist working for a major label discovers a talented singer-songwriter performing on the street and gives him a shot to stardom.
In this fantastical, dubbed Japanese anime film that’s great for the whole family, a girl who spends her summer at an aquarium meets two delightful boys who were raised in the ocean. The three strike up a friendship and go on underwater adventures, witnessing a comet falling into the sea.
Starring Korean actor Song Kang Ho who played the lead in Parasite , this 2018 film follows a petty smuggler as he dives into the world of illegal drug trafficking and becomes a bona fide drug lord and the top narcotics exporter to Japan.
This 2020 Taiwanese film mixes superheroes, competition over a childhood love interest and expert martial arts for a fun and easy watch. The lead characters were brought up in an orphanage together, but they have to fight (literally) to stay together as a couple.
What would you do if you were suddenly endowed with supernatural powers? After drinking water contaminated by a meteor, a bank security guard gains telekinetic powers and uses them for good. He goes on a mission to find his estranged daughter in this Korean superhero movie .
In this Chinese movie from 2021, a screenwriter finds that he can turn his words into reality. Like every writer, the main character has a vivid imagination, but he literally materializes treasures from his dreams to become rich, until a villain tries to stop him.
In this fantasy action film from 1995, inspired by the video game franchise of the same name, three fighters travel to the Mortal Kombat martial arts tournament to fight an evil demon who wants to take over the world. Make a night of Mortal Kombat: watch the movie and learn some moves to win the game.

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Asian cinema has entailed extreme films, almost since its conception, incorporating themes and concepts that, at least to the eyes of individuals in the West, seem improbable. Japanese filmmakers are the definite masters of the style, mainly due to notions resulting from the atomic bomb. However, there is representation in the field from Korea and Hong Kong as well.
Expectantly, a number of the older films may not seem extreme today. Nevertheless, at the time of their release, they were considered shocking. The following list includes 25 of the foremost extreme movies ever made in Asia and probably in the rest of the world.
1. Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo, 1964, Japan)
In 14th century Japan, a man is forced to enlist the army, leaving his wife and his mother alone in their house in the swamp. In order to survive, the women ambushes passing soldiers, kills them and subsequently sells their belongings to a greedy merchant. Nevertheless, the wife initiates an affair with a deserter, enraging her mother-in-law who no longer trusts her.
Additionally, the mother tends to wear a mask stolen from a butchered samurai. However, inside the mask resides a demon, which eventually takes over.
Kaneto Shindo shoots the film exclusively in a swamp, where the protagonists live their own hell. Water, canes and mud constitute an environment that, when combined with the black and white cinematography and the long, internal pauses results in a silent nightmare. Shindo presents a movie concerning the worse of human instincts and an apparent message: the sole hell is the one human beings live in.
The violence, the sex scenes and the concept in general were unheard of in the 1960s. Consequently, Shindo was forced to introduce his own production company in order to shoot and screen it. Initially, British authorities refused to screen it in the UK; however, an expurgated edition was eventually released. Nevertheless, “Onibaba” was a commercial success and one of the foremost renowned titles of the prolific director.
2. Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike, 2001, Japan)
It would not be a complete list without titles from one of the masters of the extreme. Furthermore, Takashi Miike has largely based his filmography on the exploration of humans’ darkest instincts and the graphic depiction of violence resulting from them. “Ichi the Killer” is a characteristic sample.
Revolving around a psychotic, extremely brutal killer and a sadomasochistic Yakuza underboss, “Ichi the Killer” is one of the foremost violent films ever shot. Miike presents a movie where good, as a concept, is absent and every character seems to be paranoid. His aim is evident from the beginning of the movie; violence is not simply a factor, it is the sole and ultimate goal.
Additionally, a plethora of scenes that other filmmakers would not even dream of depicting are present here, including mutilations, raping women to death, even murdered children. Miike accomplished these to create a true ode to violence.
A number of censorship committees either heavily expurgated the movie or banned it completely, namely Norway, which forbids showing, distributing and even owning it.
3. Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Shuji Terayama, 1971, Japan)
Shuji Terayama, who was also a stage writer and a poet, is considered the leading representative of avant-garde in Japan. His works were always provocative and against all taboo, and “Emperor Tomato Ketchup” is a distinctive sample of the fact.
Set in a Japan where children have gained control, the film depicts a variety of scenes, unprecedented in their extremity at the time, including children’s nude and erotic scenes and offspring humiliating their parents.
Being evidently low budget, the movie is shot in black and white and entails an abstract narrative, thus making it tough to watch, especially in its unedited form that lasts 75 minutes.
However, underneath its extreme depictions and surrealism, Terayama hides a satire regarding politics and sex and the results of their interaction.
Due to heavy censorship in Japan, the film was initially released as a 27 minute short, with the original cut eventually screened in 1993, 13 years after Terayama’s death.
4. Caterpillar (Koji Wakamatasu, 2010, Japan)
Another filmmaker that could not be absent from this list is Koji Wakamatsu, one of the earliest apostles of the extreme in Japan. The particular film is one of his last works since he died in 2012. However, his distinct morbidity did not seem to have abandoned him even in his final years.
The story is loosely based on a novel written by Edokawa Rampo, initially published in 1929, whose reprint was permanently forbidden in 1939. At the end of 1930, before the end of the Japan-China war, First Lieutenant Kyuzo Kurokawa returns home from the front in an awful condition. Both his legs and hands are mutilated, he has lost his hearing, and he has severe burns on the right side of his head. However, his country has decorated him three times for his bravery, even naming him “God of War”.
His relatives are shocked by his condition; nevertheless, they attempt, hypocritically, to persuade his wife, Shigeko that it is an honor taking care of such an eminent man. On the other hand, she manages to overcome her own shock quite rapidly. However, this does not last for long, since she quickly realizes that not only does she have to tend to all of the family’s work, both in the house and in the field, she also has to satisfy Kyuzo’s biological needs that incorporate his insatiable thirst for sex.
Wakamatsu presents a number of preposterous sex scenes between the protagonists, which are as shocking as Kyuzo’s image. The title literally refers to his condition, since he does not have hands or legs, thus resembling a caterpillar.
Nevertheless, the film incorporates a sharp political remark regarding Japan at the time, and the public’s perception of the empire that amounted to blind obedience. His biggest achievement here lies in the fact that he manages to retain the balance between the drama, the political comment and the satire, throughout a plethora of grotesque scenes.
Shinobu Terajima is sublime as Shigeko, presenting virtually every aspect of human behavior with utmost realism.
5. Breathless (Ik Joon Yang, 2010, S. Korea)
Sang Hoon is a low-level gangster, working for a loan shark who happens to be his sole friend. His job chiefly incorporates searching for individuals who owe money and subsequently, violently forcing them to pay. Usually, a young man from the syndicate accompanies him, seemingly to train in the field but actually for Sang Hoon to treat as a punching bag, constantly cursing and hitting him.
However, underneath his violent façade resides a tragic story. His cruel father, who regularly rampaged on his family, eventually killed his wife in an incident that landed him in prison and Sang Hoon in the hospital. When he is released, he returns to his home with Sang Hoon, who, not being able to forget, wreaks his fury upon him, beating him every time he gets drunk.
The only people Sang Hoon seems to tend to are his sister, his nephew and subsequently a schoolgirl, with the two of them striking a peculiar friendship.
Ik Joon Yang directed, wrote the script, and played Sang Hoon, in a movie that is mostly autobiographical. His primary purpose is to delve into the concept of domestic violence, and he accomplishes that by depicting it without constraints regarding the abuse it incorporates, both physically and verbally. The outcome is grotesque as mu
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