Academy Award Winners
This Hayao Miyazaki film won Best Animated Feature in 2001.
Spirited Away
Wong, played by actor Benedict Wong, is the sidekick to this Marvel superhero.
Doctor Strange
Author of Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan
This 2000 film from Wong Kar-Wai follows two lonely individuals who are scared to fall in love and is truly *cinema*.
In The Mood For Love
Leonardo DiCaprio's movie The Beach was filmed in this country.
Thailand
Chloe Zhao won Best Director for this film in 2020.
Nomadland
This actress is one of few people to play multiple roles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe - First as a Kree in Captain Marvel and next as Sesi in Eternals.
Gemma Chan
This novel turned film tells stories of four Chinese women in San Francisco and their Chinese American daughters.
The Joy Luck Club
Featuring Tony Leung, this urban noir from 2002 represents the best of Hong Kong action cinema.
Infernal Affairs
Tony Jaa plays the main character in this iconic SE Asia Action movie.
Ong-Bak
This film was the first Best Picture won by Asian filmmakers, along with being the first film to ever win Best International along with Best Picture.
Parasite
Pom Klementieff plays this character in the Guardians of the Galaxy who can sense other people’s feelings and alter them.
Mantis
This actress stars as Lara Jean Covey in Netflix’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
Lana Condor
Park Chan-wook directed this iconic revenge story that spans across three films and won the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
Oldboy
A sequel, this 2014 action crime thriller focuses on a character set on uncovering the corruption with the police force.
The Raid 2
Youn Yuh Jung was the first South Korean actress to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for this movie.
Minari
Actor Randall Park plays the character Jimmy Woo who appears in Ant-Man, WandaVision & The Marvels. What type of agent is he?
FBI
This 2005 film stars Zhang Ziyi and is based on Arthur Golden’s novel of the same name
Memoirs of a Geisha
Akira Kurosawa is responsible for this film about two peasants escorting a general that George Lucas has acknowledged was a great influence to Star Wars.
Hidden Fortress
This Thai horror movie is based on Mae Nak Phra Khanong, a local folk tale about a woman who died due to difficult birth while her lover went to war.
Nang Nak
This actor won Best Actor for his role as Mahatma Gandhi in Gandhi.
Ben Kingsley
This is Shang-Chi's job before he gets caught up with the Ten Rings.
The Life of Pi revolves around two shipwreck survivors – a 16-year-old Indian boy and this animal.
Tiger
This 2029-set anime pioneered new animation techniques in the 90's and is a classic anime film.
Ghost in the Shell
Michelle Yeoh plays this leader in The Lady who became the core of Burma's democracy movement.
Aung San Suu Kyi