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East Asian Cinema

This group collects the World and International Narrative Cinema subcategory's members whose primary country of origin is Japan, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, North Korea or Mongolia, read from the member's own recorded Country fact or its description text. It spans the postwar Japanese masters, the Fifth and Sixth Generation Chinese directors, the Hong Kong New Wave, the Korean New Wave and Taiwanese art cinema, kept apart from this subcategory's Southeast Asian Cinema group by continental convention rather than any claim that the two traditions are unrelated.

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A City of Sadness

World and International Narrative Cinema

Bâan: The Boundary of Adulthood

World and International Narrative Cinema

Black Coal, Thin Ice

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Burning (2018 film)

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Bushido, Samurai Saga

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Capernaum (2018 film)

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Chungking Express

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Close to Eden

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Departures (2008 film)

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Drive My Car (2021 film)

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Farewell My Concubine

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Gate of Hell

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Hana-bi

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Hero (2002 film)

World and International Narrative Cinema
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High and Low

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Ikiru

World and International Narrative Cinema
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In the Mood for Love

World and International Narrative Cinema
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In the Realm of the Senses

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Infernal Affairs

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Kagemusha

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Late Spring

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Lust, Caution

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Memories of Murder

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Not One Less

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Oldboy

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Parasite

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Pietà

World and International Narrative Cinema

Raise the Red Lantern

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Ran

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Rashomon

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Red Sorghum

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Sansho the Bailiff

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Seven Samurai

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Shoplifters (2018 film)

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Still Life

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Stray Dog

World and International Narrative Cinema
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The Ballad of Narayama (1983 film)

World and International Narrative Cinema
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The Handmaiden

World and International Narrative Cinema
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The Hidden Fortress

World and International Narrative Cinema
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The Story of Qiu Ju

World and International Narrative Cinema
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The Wedding Banquet

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Throne of Blood

World and International Narrative Cinema
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To Live (1994 film)

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Tokyo Story

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Train to Busan

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Tuya's Marriage

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Ugetsu

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Verax (film)

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Vive L'Amour

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Woman in the Dunes

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Yi Yi

World and International Narrative Cinema
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Yojimbo

World and International Narrative Cinema
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1. Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: Cinema of East Asia, lead section
Quote, Wikipedia: Cinema of East Asia, lead section
Japan, for example, had grown a vibrant film industry by the Roaring 20s, despite its first film production studio only opening in 1909.
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