Cinema of Asia, the Glossary
Asian cinema refers to the film industries and films produced in the continent of Asia.[1]
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277 relations: A Better Tomorrow, Aamir Khan, Abbas Kiarostami, Abolfazl Jalili, Academy Award for Best Picture, Ajam, Akira Kurosawa, Alam Ara, Amir Naderi, Amitabh Bachchan, Amsterdam University Press, An Euy Srey An, Andha Naal, Animation, Anime, Arab cinema, Ardeshir Irani, Ari Folman, Asia, Associated Press, Avi Nesher, Awaara, Azra (film), Baazigar, Bahram Beyzai, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Liberation War, Battle Beyond the Stars, Beaufort (film), Bimal Roy, Broken Wings (2002 film), Bruce Lee, Cambodia, Campfire (film), Canada Council, Carlos Saura, Chandni (film), Charulata, Chennai, China Gate (1998 film), Chinese philosophy, Chow Yun-fat, Christopher Null, Cinema of Bangladesh, Cinema of Cambodia, Cinema of Central Asia, Cinema of China, Cinema of East Asia, Cinema of Egypt, Cinema of Europe, ... Expand index (227 more) »
- Arts in Asia
- Cinema by continent
A Better Tomorrow
A Better Tomorrow is a 1986 Hong Kong action film directed, co-written and co-produced by John Woo, co-produced by Tsui Hark, and starring Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung and Chow Yun-fat.
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Aamir Khan
Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan (born 14 March 1965) is an Indian actor, filmmaker, and television personality who works in Hindi films.
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Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami (عباس کیارستمی; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer.
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Abolfazl Jalili
Abolfazl Jalili (ابوالفضل جلیلی., born 1957 in Saveh, Iran) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter.
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Academy Award for Best Picture
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929.
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Ajam
Ajam (ʿajam) is an Arabic word meaning mute.
Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed 30 films in a career spanning over five decades.
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Alam Ara
Alam Ara is a 1931 Indian Hindustani-language historical fantasy film directed and produced by Ardeshir Irani.
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Amir Naderi
Amir Naderi (امیر نادری,, born 15 August 1946, in Abadan) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and photographer.
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Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan (born Amitabh Srivastava; 11 October 1942) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi cinema.
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Amsterdam University Press
Amsterdam University Press (AUP) is a university press that was founded in 1992 by the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
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An Euy Srey An
An Euy Srey An (អនអើយស្រីអន) is a 1972 Cambodian film directed by Ly Bun Yim of Runteas Pich Pheap Yun.
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Andha Naal
Andha Naal is a 1954 Indian Tamil-language mystery-thriller film, produced by A. V. Meiyappan and directed by S. Balachander.
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Animation
Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images.
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Anime
is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.
Arab cinema
Arab cinema or Arabic cinema (al-sīnemā al-ʿArabīyah) refers to the film industry of the Arab world.
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Ardeshir Irani
Khan Bahadur Ardeshir Irani (5 December 1886 – 14 October 1969) was a writer, director, producer, actor, film distributor, film showman and cinematographer in the silent and sound eras of early Indian cinema.
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Ari Folman
Ari Folman (ארי פולמן; born December 17, 1962) is an Israeli film director, screenwriter, animator, and film-score composer.
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Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Avi Nesher
Avi Nesher (Hebrew: אבי נשר; born 13 December 1952) is an Israeli film producer, film director, screenwriter and actor.
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Awaara
Awaara, also written Awāra and known overseas as The Vagabond, is a 1951 Indian Hindi crime drama film, produced and directed by Raj Kapoor, and written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas.
Azra (film)
Azra is a 1962 Pakistani costume film directed by Munshi Dil, and produced by Agha G. A. Gul under Evernew Pictures banner.
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Baazigar
Baazigar is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language romantic thriller film directed by Abbas–Mustan and produced by Venus Movies.
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Bahram Beyzai
Bahrām Beyzāêi (also spelt Beizāi, Beyzāêi, بهرامبیضائی; born 26 December 1938) is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and ostād ("master") of Persian letters, arts and Iranian studies.
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
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Bangladesh Liberation War
The Bangladesh Liberation War (মুক্তিযুদ্ধ), also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence and known as the Liberation War in Bangladesh, was an armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali nationalist and self-determination movement in East Pakistan, which resulted in the independence of Bangladesh.
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Battle Beyond the Stars
Battle Beyond the Stars is a 1980 American space opera film produced by Roger Corman, directed by Jimmy T. Murakami, and starring Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn, George Peppard, John Saxon, Sybil Danning and Darlanne Fluegel.
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Beaufort (film)
Beaufort (בופור Bufor) is a 2007 Israeli war film.
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Bimal Roy
Bimal Roy (12 July 1909 – 7 January 1966) was an Indian film director.
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Broken Wings (2002 film)
Broken Wings (כנפיים שבורות / Knafayim Shvurot) is a 2002 Israeli film directed by Nir Bergman and starring Orly Silbersatz Banai, Maya Maron, and Nitai Gaviratz.
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Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (born Lee Jun-fan; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor.
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Cambodia
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.
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Campfire (film)
Campfire (Medurat Ha-Shevet) is a 2004 Israeli film written and directed by Joseph Cedar.
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Canada Council
The Canada Council for the Arts (Conseil des arts du Canada), commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown corporation established in 1957 as an arts council of the Government of Canada.
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Carlos Saura
Carlos Saura Atarés (4 January 1932 – 10 February 2023) was a Spanish film director, photographer and writer.
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Chandni (film)
Chandni (Moonlight) is a 1989 Indian Hindi-language romantic musical drama film directed and co-produced by Yash Chopra from a story written by Kamna Chandra with a screenplay by Umesh Kalbagh, Arun Kaul, and Sagar Sarhadi.
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Charulata
Charulata is a 1964 Indian drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray.
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Chennai
Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.
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China Gate (1998 film)
China Gate is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi.
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Chinese philosophy
Chinese philosophy originates in the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period, during a period known as the "Hundred Schools of Thought", which was characterized by significant intellectual and cultural developments.
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Chow Yun-fat
Chow Yun-fat (born 18 May 1955), previously known as Donald Chow, is a Hong Kong actor.
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Christopher Null
Christopher Null (born September 7, 1971) is an American writer, film critic, and columnist.
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Cinema of Bangladesh
The Cinema of Bangladesh is a diverse and vibrant entity, consisting of films produced across various regions, each contributing its unique linguistic and cultural perspective.
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Cinema of Cambodia
Cinema in Cambodia began in the 1950s, and many films were being screened in theaters throughout the country by the 1960s, which are regarded as the "golden age".
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Cinema of Central Asia
The Cinema of Central Asia includes the cinema of the five former Soviet Socialist Republics (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) and Afghanistan.
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Cinema of China
The cinema of China is the filmmaking and film industry of the Chinese mainland under the People's Republic of China, one of three distinct historical threads of Chinese-language cinema together with the cinema of Hong Kong and the cinema of Taiwan.
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Cinema of East Asia
The Cinema of East Asia is cinema produced in East Asia or by people from this region.
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Cinema of Egypt
The Egyptian film industry is today based mainly in Cairo, which is sometimes referred to as Hollywood on the Nile or Hollywood of the East, despite having its beginnings in the city of Alexandria in the early 20th century.
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Cinema of Europe
Cinema of Europe refers to the film industries and films produced in the continent of Europe. Cinema of Asia and Cinema of Europe are cinema by continent.
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Cinema of Hong Kong
The cinema of Hong Kong (t) is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese-language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan.
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Cinema of India
The Cinema of India, consisting of motion pictures made by the Indian film industry, has had a large effect on world cinema since the second half of the 20th century.
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Cinema of Indonesia
The cinema of Indonesia refers to films produced domestically in Indonesia.
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Cinema of Iran
The cinema of Iran (سینمای ایران), or of Persia, refers to the film industry in Iran.
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Cinema of Israel
Cinema of Israel (Kolnoa Yisraeli) refers to film production in Israel since its founding in 1948.
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Cinema of Japan
The, also known domestically as, has a history that spans more than 100 years.
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Cinema of Malaysia
The cinema of Malaysia consists of feature films produced in Malaysia, shot in the languages Malay, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tamil, various indigenous languages, and English.
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Cinema of Nepal
Nepali Cinema, also referred to as "Nepali Chalachitra" (नेपाली चलचित्र) is the filmmaking industry in Nepal.
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Cinema of Pakistan
The film industry of Pakistan, consisting of motion pictures, has had a large effect on Pakistani society and culture since the nation's independence.
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Cinema of Russia
The cinema of Russia, popularity known as Mollywood, refers to the film industry in Russia, engaged in production of motion pictures in Russian language.
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Cinema of South India
Cinema of South India, refers to the cinema of the four major film industries in South India; primarily engaged in making feature films in the four major languages of the region, namely Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam.
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Cinema of South Korea
South Korean films have been heavily influenced by such events and forces as the Korea under Japanese rule, the Korean War, government censorship, the business sector, globalization, and the democratization of South Korea.
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Cinema of Taiwan
The cinema of Taiwan or Taiwan cinema (t or 台灣電影) is deeply rooted in the island's unique history.
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Cinema of Tajikistan
In parallel to what happened in other Soviet republics, a cinema of Tajikistan was promoted by the Soviet state, and declined in the first years after the independence, before being revitalized through the efforts of the new government.
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Cinema of Thailand
The cinema of Thailand dates back to the early days of filmmaking, when King Chulalongkorn's 1897 visit to Bern, Switzerland was recorded by François-Henri Lavancy-Clarke.
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Cinema of the Middle East
Middle Eastern cinema collectively refers to the film industries of West Asia and part of North Africa.
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Cinema of the Philippines
The Cinema of the Philippines began with the introduction of the first moving pictures to the country on August 31, 1897, at the Salón de Pertierra in Manila.
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Cinema of the Soviet Union
The cinema of the Soviet Union includes films produced by the constituent republics of the Soviet Union reflecting elements of their pre-Soviet culture, language and history, albeit they were all regulated by the central government in Moscow.
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Cinema of the United States
The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.
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Cinema of Turkey
Cinema of Turkey or Turkish cinema (also formerly known as Yeşilçam, which literally means Green Pine in Turkish), or Türk sineması refers to the Turkish film art and industry.
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Cinema of West Bengal
Cinema of West Bengal, also known as Tollywood or Bengali cinema, is an Indian film industry of Bengali-language motion pictures.
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Cirio H. Santiago
Cirio Hermoso Santiago (January 18, 1936 – September 26, 2008) was a Filipino film producer, director and writer.
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CNN-News18
CNN-News18 (also known as Cable News Network News18 and originally CNN-IBN) is an Indian English-language news television channel founded by Raghav Bahl based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Come Drink with Me
Come Drink with Me (p) is a 1966 Hong Kong wuxia film produced by Shaw Brothers Studio and directed by King Hu.
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Coming of age
Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult.
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Crows and Sparrows
Crows and Sparrows is a 1949 Chinese film made by the left-leaning Kunlun Studios on the eve of the Communist victory, directed by Zheng Junli and scripted by Chen Baichen.
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Cult film
A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following.
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Dadasaheb Phalke
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (Pronunciation: d̪ʱuɳɖiɾaːd͡ʒ pʰaːɭke), popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke (30 April 1870 – 16 February 1944), was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as "the Father of Indian cinema".
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Danny Boyle
Daniel Francis Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an English director and producer.
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Dariush Mehrjui
Dariush Mehrjui (داریوش مهرجویی‎; 8 December 1939 – 14 October 2023) was an Iranian filmmaker and a member of the Iranian Academy of the Arts.
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Darr
Darr: A Violent Love Story (Fear) is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language romantic psychological thriller film directed and produced by Yash Chopra under his banner Yash Raj Films.
Deewaar
Deewaar (Wall) is a 1975 Indian Hindi-language action crime film written by Salim–Javed and directed by Yash Chopra.
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Devdas (1935 film)
Devdas is a 1935 Bengali film directed by Pramathesh Barua and based on the Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay novel, Devdas.
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Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, also known by the initialism DDLJ, is a 1995 Indian Hindi-language musical romance film written and directed by Aditya Chopra in his directorial debut and produced by his father Yash Chopra.
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Ding Huan
Ding Huan was a Chinese craftsman, mechanical engineer, and inventor who lived in the first century CE during the Han dynasty.
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Dover Kosashvili
Dover Kosashvili (דובר קוסאשווילי, დოვერ ქოსაშვილი; born 8 December 1966) is an Israeli film director and screenwriter of Georgian-Jewish descent.
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Drama (film and television)
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.
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East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
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Eddie Romero
Edgar Sinco Romero, (July 7, 1924 – May 28, 2013), commonly known as Eddie Romero, was a Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter.
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Edward Yang
Edward Yang (November 6, 1947 – June 29, 2007) was a Taiwanese filmmaker.
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Elia Kazan
Elias Kazantzoglou (Ηλίας Καζαντζόγλου,; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003), known as Elia Kazan, was an American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".
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Eran Kolirin
Eran Kolirin (Hebrew: ערן קולירין) (born 4 November 1973) is an Israeli screenwriter and film director.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Eytan Fox
Eytan Fox (איתן פוקס; born on August 21, 1964) is an Israeli film director.
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Feature film
A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature), also called a theatrical film, is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program.
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Fei Mu
Fei Mu (October 10, 1906 – January 31, 1951), also romanised as Fey Mou, was a Chinese film director of the pre-Communist era.
Film
A film (British English) also called a movie (American English), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.
Film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region.
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Film industry
The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post-production, film festivals, distribution, and actors.
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Floating Clouds
is a 1955 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse.
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François Truffaut
François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic.
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George Lucas
George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and philanthropist.
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Gerardo de León
Gerardo de León (September 12, 1913 – July 25, 1981) was a Filipino film director and actor.
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Godzilla (1954 film)
is a 1954 Japanese epic kaiju film directed and co-written by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya.
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Gregorio Fernandez
Gregorio Montemayor Fernandez (May 25, 1904 – March 11, 1973) was a Filipino film actor and director, and father of Rudy Fernandez.
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Gregory Nava
Gregory James Nava (born April 10, 1949) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter.
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Guru Dutt
Guru Dutt (born Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone; 9 July 1925 – 10 October 1964) was an Indian film actor, director, producer, choreographer, and writer.
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Han dynasty
The Han dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu.
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Hero (2002 film)
Hero (p) is a 2002 ''wuxia'' film directed, co-written, and produced by Zhang Yimou, and starring Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Donnie Yen and Chen Daoming.
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Heroic bloodshed
Heroic bloodshed is a genre invented by Hong Kong action cinema revolving around stylized action sequences and dramatic themes, such as brotherhood, duty, honour, redemption, and violence that has become a popular genre used by different directors worldwide.
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Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.
Hindi cinema
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language.
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Hiralal Sen
Hiralal Sen (হীরালাল সেন, Hiralal Shen; 2 August 1868 – 26 October 1917) is generally considered one of India's first filmmakers.
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Hiroshi Inagaki
was a Japanese filmmaker who worked on over 100 films in a career spanning over five decades.
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Historical drama
A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television, which presents historical events and characters with varying degrees of fictional elements such as creative dialogue or fictional scenes which aim to compress separate events or illustrate a broader factual narrative.
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Hong Kong action cinema
Hong Kong action cinema is the principal source of the Hong Kong film industry's global fame.
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Hong Kong Film Awards
The Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA), founded in 1982, is an annual film awards ceremony in Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong New Wave
The Hong Kong New Wave is a film movement in Chinese-language Hong Kong cinema that emerged in the late 1970s and lasted through the early 2000s until the present time.
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Hou Hsiao-hsien
Hou Hsiao-hsien (born 8 April 1947) is a retired Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
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Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!
Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (HAHK) is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language musical romantic drama film written and directed by Sooraj Barjatya and produced by Rajshri Productions.
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Humanity and Paper Balloons
is a 1937 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Sadao Yamanaka.
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Ikiru
is a 1952 Japanese tragedy film directed and co-written (with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni) by Akira Kurosawa.
Ira Sachs
Ira Sachs (born November 21, 1965) is an American filmmaker.
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
Iranian New Wave
Iranian New Wave refers to a movement in Iranian cinema.
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Isao Takahata
was a Japanese director, screenwriter and producer.
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Ishirō Honda
was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 46 feature films in a career spanning five decades.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
The Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) was Israel's public broadcaster from 1948 to 2017, succeeded by the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation.
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Jackie Chan
Chan Kong-sang (born 7 April 1954), known professionally as Jackie Chan, is a Hong Kong actor, director, writer, producer, martial artist, and stuntman known for his slapstick acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, and innovative stunts, which he typically performs himself.
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Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panâhi (جعفر پناهی,; born 11 July 1960) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film editor, commonly associated with the Iranian New Wave film movement.
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Jalsaghar
Jalsaghar (জলসাঘর Jalsāghar) is a 1958 Indian Bengali drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray, based on a popular short story by Bengali writer Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, and starring Chhabi Biswas.
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James Ivory
James Francis Ivory born Richard Jerome Hazen June 7, 1928) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Ivory, along with Indian film producer Ismail Merchant, his domestic as well as professional partner, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, were the principals in Merchant Ivory Productions.
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Japanese New Wave
The is a term for a group of loosely-connected Japanese films and filmmakers between the late 1950s and the early 1970s.
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Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard (3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic.
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Jewish culture
Jewish culture is the culture of the Jewish people, from its formation in ancient times until the current age.
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John Woo
John Woo Yu-sen (born 22 September 1946) is a Hong Kong film director known as a highly influential figure in the action film genre.
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Joseph Cedar
Yossef (Joseph) Cedar (Hebrew: יוסף סידר; born August 31, 1968) is an Israeli film director and screenwriter.
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K. Asif
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Kaagaz Ke Phool
Kaagaz Ke Phool.
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Kenji Mizoguchi
was a Japanese filmmaker who directed roughly one hundred films during his career between 1923 and 1956.
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Keren Yedaya
Keren Yedaya (קרן ידעיה; born in 1972) is an Israeli filmmaker.
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Khans of Bollywood
The term Khans of Bollywood refers to several actors of Bollywood, the Mumbai-based Hindi language Indian film industry, whose surnames are Khan.
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Khmer language
Khmer (ខ្មែរ, UNGEGN) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Khmer people and the official and national language of Cambodia.
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Kim Ki-young
Kim Ki-young (October 10, 1919According to official documents, Kim was born in 1919. However, Kim insisted he was actually born in 1922. – February 5, 1998) was a South Korean film director, known for his intensely psychosexual and melodramatic horror films, often focusing on the psychology of their female characters.
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King Hu
Hu Jinquan (胡金銓, 29 April 1932 – 14 January 1997), better known as King Hu, was a Chinese film director and actor based in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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Kolkata
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Lamberto V. Avellana
Lamberto Vera Avellana February 12, 1915 – April 25, 1991) was a prominent Filipino film and stage director. Despite considerable budgetary limitations that hampered the post-war Filipino film industry, Avellana's films such as Anak Dalita and Badjao attained international acclaim. In 1976, Avellana was named by President Ferdinand Marcos as the first National Artist of the Philippines for Film.
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Late Marriage
Late Marriage (חתונה מאוחרת, Hatuna Meuheret) is a 2001 Israeli film directed by Dover Kosashvili.
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Late Spring
is a 1949 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and written by Ozu and Kogo Noda, based on the short novel Father and Daughter (Chichi to musume) by the 20th-century novelist and critic Kazuo Hirotsu.
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List of cinema of the world
This is a list of cinema of the world by continent and country.
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List of Western subgenres
The Western is a genre set in the American frontier and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.
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Maine Pyar Kiya
Maine Pyar Kiya also known by the initialism MPK is a 1989 Indian Hindi-language romantic musical film directed by Sooraj Barjatya in his directorial debut, produced by Tarachand Barjatya, co-written by S. M. Ahale with Sooraj Barjatya and distributed by Rajshri Productions.
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Majid Majidi
Majid Majidi (translit) is an Iranian filmmaker and producer.
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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Martial arts film
Martial arts films are a subgenre of action films that feature martial arts combat between characters.
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker.
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Masala film
Masala films of Indian cinema are those that blend multiple genres into one work.
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Masoud Kimiai
Masoud Kimiai (or Masoud Kimiaei, مسعود کیمیایی., born 29 July 1941) is an Iranian director, screenwriter and producer.
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Mehboob Khan
Mehboob Khan (born Mehboob Khan Ramzan Khan; 9 September 1907 at filmreference.com. – 28 May 1964) was a pioneer producer-director of Indian cinema, best known for directing the social epic Mother India (1957), which won the Filmfare Awards for Best Film and Best Director, two National Film Awards, and was a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Mikio Naruse
was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 89 films spanning the period 1930 to 1967.
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Mohsen Makhmalbaf (محسن مخملباف, Mohsen Makhmalbaaf; born May 29, 1957) is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer.
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Mother India
Mother India is a 1957 Indian epic drama film, directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar and Raaj Kumar.
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Mozi
Mozi (original name Mo Di; Latinized as Micius;; –) was a Chinese philosopher, logician and essayist who founded the school of Mohism during the Hundred Schools of Thought period (the early portion of the Warring States period, –221 BCE).
Mr. India (1987 film)
Mr.
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Mrinal Sen
Mrinal Sen (14 May 1923 – 30 December 2018) was an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his work primarily in Bengali, and a few Hindi and Telugu language films.
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Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Nagisa Ōshima
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
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Neorealism (art)
In art, neorealism refers to a few movements.
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The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) is a worldwide organization of 29 member countries.
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Neve Tzedek
Neve Tzedek (נְוֵה צֶדֶק, נווה צדק, lit. Abode of Justice) is a neighborhood located in southwestern Tel Aviv, Israel.
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New Hollywood
The New Hollywood, Hollywood Renaissance, American New Wave, or New American Cinema (not to be confused with the New American Cinema of the 1960s that was part of avant-garde underground cinema), was a movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of filmmakers came to prominence.
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New York Daily News
The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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Nina's Tragedies
Nina's Tragedies (האסונות של נינה) is a 2003 Israeli comedy-drama film about a boy Nadav and his aunt Nina.
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Nonlinear narrative
Nonlinear narrative, disjointed narrative, or disrupted narrative is a narrative technique where events are portrayed, for example, out of chronological order or in other ways where the narrative does not follow the direct causality pattern of the events featured, such as parallel distinctive plot lines, dream immersions or narrating another story inside the main plot-line.
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North Asia
North Asia or Northern Asia is the northern region of Asia, which is defined in geographical terms and consists of three federal districts of Russia: Ural, Siberian, and the Far Eastern.
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Obaltan
Obaltan (오발탄, also known as Aimless Bullet and Stray Bullet) is a 1961 South Korean tragedy film directed by Yu Hyun-mok.
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Or (My Treasure)
Or (My Treasure) is a 2004 drama film starring Dana Ivgy in the title role of Or, a teenager who struggles to be responsible for her prostitute mother Ruthie, played by Ronit Elkabetz.
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Organised crime in India
Organised crime in India refers to organised crime elements originating in India and active in many parts of the world.
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Osaka Elegy
is a 1936 Japanese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
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Palestine (region)
The region of Palestine, also known as Historic Palestine, is a geographical area in West Asia.
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Parallel cinema
Parallel cinema or New Indian Cinema, is a film movement in Indian cinema that originated in the state of West Bengal in the 1950s as an alternative to the mainstream commercial Indian cinema.
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Parasite (2019 film)
Parasite is a 2019 South Korean dark comedy thriller film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Bong Joon-ho.
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Parviz Kimiavi
Parviz Kimiavi (پرويز کيمياوی; born 1939, in Tehran) is an Iranian (Persian) film director, screenwriter, editor and one of the most prominent figures of Persian cinema of the 20th century.
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Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a term used to refer to a variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break with modernism.
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Project A (film)
Project A (fully titled as Jackie Chan's Project A) is a 1983 Hong Kong martial arts action comedy film starring and directed by Jackie Chan, who also wrote the screenplay with Edward Tang, who produced with Leonard Ho and Raymond Chow.
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Pyaasa
Pyaasa is a 1957 Indian Hindi drama film directed and produced by Guru Dutt, who stars alongside Mala Sinha, Waheeda Rehman, Rehman, and Johnny Walker.
Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak
Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (QSQT), also known by the initialism QSQT, is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language romantic musical film, directed by Mansoor Khan in his directorial debut, and written and produced by Nasir Hussain.
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Raj Kapoor
Raj Kapoor (born Shrishti Nath Kapoor; 14 December 1924 2 June 1988), also known as Ranbir Raj Kapoor, was an Indian actor, film director and producer, who worked in Hindi cinema.
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Raja Harishchandra
Raja Harishchandra is a 1913 Indian silent film directed and produced by Dadasaheb Phalke.
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Rashomon
is a 1950 jidaigeki drama film directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa.
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Rashomon effect
The Rashomon effect is a storytelling and writing method in cinema in which an event is given contradictory interpretations or descriptions by the individuals involved, thereby providing different perspectives and points of view of the same incident.
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Ritwik Ghatak
Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (4 November 19256 February 1976) was a noted Indian film director, screenwriter, actor and playwright.
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RRR
RRR (subtitled onscreen as Roudram Ranam Rudhiram) is a 2022 Indian Telugu-language epic period action drama film directed by S. S. Rajamouli, who co-wrote the film with V. Vijayendra Prasad.
S. S. Rajamouli
Koduri Srisaila Sri Rajamouli (born 10 October 1973) is an Indian filmmaker who primarily works in Telugu cinema.
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Sadao Yamanaka
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who directed 26 films between 1932 and 1938.
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Salah Zulfikar
Salah El-Din Ahmed Mourad Zulfikar (صلاح ذو الفقار,; 18 January 1926 – 22 December 1993) was an Egyptian actor and film producer.
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Salim–Javed
Salim–Javed were an Indian screenwriting duo, composed of Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, who worked primarily in Hindi cinema.
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Salman Khan
Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan (born 27 December 1965) is an Indian actor, film producer, and television personality who predominantly works in Hindi films.
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Samira Makhmalbaf
Samira Makhmalbaf (سمیرا مخملباف, Samira Makhmalbaaf;, born 15 February 1980) is an Iranian filmmaker and screenwriter.
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Sangam (1964 Urdu film)
Sangam is a Pakistani Urdu film released in 1964.
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Sansho the Bailiff
is a 1954 Japanese period film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi based on a 1915 short story of the same name by Mori Ōgai (translated as "Sanshō the Steward" in English), which in turn was based on a (oral lore) appearing in written form in the 17th century.
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Saturn Awards
The Saturn Awards are American awards presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.
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Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer.
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Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist.
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Seven Samurai
is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai action film co-written, directed and edited by Akira Kurosawa.
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Shadow play
Shadow play, also known as shadow puppetry, is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment which uses flat articulated cut-out figures (shadow puppets) which are held between a source of light and a translucent screen or scrim.
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Shah Rukh Khan
Shah Rukh Khan (born 2 November 1965), also known by the initialism SRK, is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi cinema.
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Shahr-e Sukhteh
Shahr-e Sukhteh (شهر سوخته, meaning "Burnt City"), c. 3550–2300 BC,Ascalone, E., and P. F. Fabbri, (2022).
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Sholay
Sholay is a 1975 Indian Hindi-language action-adventure film directed by Ramesh Sippy, produced by his father G. P. Sippy, and written by Salim–Javed.
Siberia
Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
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Sight and Sound
Sight and Sound (formerly written Sight & Sound) is a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI).
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Silver screen
A silver screen, also known as a silver lenticular screen, is a type of projection screen that was popular in the early years of the motion picture industry and passed into popular usage as a metonym for the cinema industry.
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Sisters of the Gion
or Sisters of Gion is a 1936 black and white Japanese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi about two geisha sisters living in Kyoto's Gion district.
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Soad Hosny
Soad Muhammad Kamal Hosny (سُعاد حسني,; 26 January 1943 – 21 June 2001) was an Egyptian actress.
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Sohrab Shahid-Saless
Sohrab Shaheed Salles or Sohrab Shahid-Saless (سهراب شهید ثالث; June 28, 1944 in Tehran, Iran – July 2, 1998 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) was an Iranian film director and screenwriter and one of the most celebrated figures in Iranian cinema in the 20th century.
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Sound film
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.
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South Asia
South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.
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South Asian cinema
South Asian cinema refers to the cinema of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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South Caucasus
The South Caucasus, also known as Transcaucasia or the Transcaucasus, is a geographical region on the border of Eastern Europe and West Asia, straddling the southern Caucasus Mountains.
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Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
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Southeast Asian cinema
Southeast Asian cinema is the film industry and films produced in, or by natives of Southeast Asia.
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Soviet Central Asia
Soviet Central Asia (Sovetskaya Srednyaya Aziya) was the part of Central Asia administered by the Soviet Union between 1918 and 1991, when the Central Asian republics declared independence.
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Soviet montage theory
Soviet montage theory is an approach to understanding and creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing (montage is French for 'assembly' or 'editing').
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Spring in a Small Town
Spring in a Small Town is a 1948 black-and-white Chinese film, written by Li Tianji and directed by Fei Mu, a director known for his empathetic portrayal of women.
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Star Wars (film)
Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas, produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox.
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Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.
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Strangers No More
Strangers No More is a 2010 short documentary film about a school in Tel Aviv, Israel, where children from 48 countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn.
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Subarnarekha (film)
Subarnarekha (সুবর্ণরেখা Subarṇarekhā) is an Indian Bengali film directed by Ritwik Ghatak.
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Subrata Mitra
Subrata Mitra (12 October 1930 – 7 December 2001) was an Indian cinematographer.
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Taipei Times
The Taipei Times is the last surviving English-language print newspaper in Taiwan.
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Tehran Times
The Tehran Times is an English-language daily newspaper published in Iran, founded in 1979 as the self-styled "voice of the Islamic Revolution".
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Tendency film
was a genre of socially conscious, left-leaning films produced in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s.
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Tezaab
Tezaab is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language action romance film starring Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit in lead roles.
The Apu Trilogy
The Apu Trilogy comprises three Indian Bengali-language drama films directed by Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956) and The World of Apu (1959).
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The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.
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The Band's Visit
The Band's Visit (Bikur Ha-Tizmoret) is a 2007 comedy-drama film, directed and written by Eran Kolirin, and starring Saleh Bakri, Ronit Elkabetz, Sasson Gabai and Uri Gavriel.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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is a 1958 Japanese jidaigeki adventure film directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya.
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The Housemaid (1960 film)
The Housemaid is a 1960 South Korean film, produced, written and directed by Kim Ki-young.
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The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post.
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The Life of Oharu
is a 1952 Japanese historical drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
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The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Outrage
The Outrage is a 1964 American Western film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson and William Shatner.
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The Snake King's Wife
The Snake Man, also known as The Snake King's Wife (ពស់កេងកង, Pós Kéngkâng; งูเก็งกอง) is a 1970 Cambodian drama horror film based on a Cambodian myth about a snake goddess, starring the most well-known Khmer actress of the era, Dy Saveth and Chea Yuthorn, who became popular in Thailand after the film's release.
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The Spring River Flows East
The Spring River Flows East, also translated as The Tears of Yangtze, is a 1947 epic Chinese film written and directed by Cai Chusheng and Zheng Junli and produced by the Kunlun Film Company.
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The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums
, also titled The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum and The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, is a 1939 Japanese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
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The Usual Suspects
The Usual Suspects is a 1995 crime thriller film directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie.
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Throne of Blood
is a 1957 Japanese jidaigeki film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film transposes the plot of English dramatist William Shakespeare's play Macbeth (1606) from Medieval Scotland to feudal Japan, with stylistic elements drawn from Noh drama.
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Times Internet
Times Internet is an Indian multinational technology company, headquartered in Gurgaon, India which owns, operates and invests in various internet-led products, services and technology.
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Titash Ekti Nadir Naam
Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (তিতাস একটি নদীর নাম), or A River Called Titas, is a 1973 Indian-Bangladeshi film directed by Ritwik Ghatak.
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Tokyo Story
is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama, about an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children.
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Triad (organized crime)
A triad is a Chinese transnational organized crime syndicate based in Greater China with outposts in various countries having significant overseas Chinese populations.
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Tsui Hark
Tsui Hark (Từ Khắc, born 15 February 1950), born Tsui Man-kong (Từ Văn Quang), is a Hong Kong filmmaker.
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Turn Left at the End of the World
Turn Left at the End of the World (סוף העולם שמאלה, Sof HaOlam Smola) is a 2004 Israeli film written, produced and directed by Avi Nesher and starring Netta Garti and Liraz Charhi.
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Ugetsu
Ugetsu (雨月物語, Ugetsu Monogatari, lit. "Rain-moon tales") is a 1953 Japanese period fantasy film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi starring Masayuki Mori and Machiko Kyō.
United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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University of California, Santa Cruz
The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California.
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University of Hawaiʻi Press
The University of Hawaiʻi Press is a university press that is part of the University of Hawaiʻi.
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Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.
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Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
The Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema (French: Festival international des cinémas d'Asie) is an annual special-interest film festival focusing on the cinemas of Asia.
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Walk on Water (film)
Walk on Water (original Hebrew title: ללכת על המים; English transliteration: Lalekhet Al HaMayim) is a 2004 Israeli film directed by Eytan Fox and starring Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, and Caroline Peters.
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Waltz with Bashir
Waltz with Bashir (ואלס עם באשיר, translit. Vals Im Bashir) is a 2008 Israeli adult animated war docudrama film written, produced, and directed by Ari Folman.
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Wes Anderson
Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American filmmaker.
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West Asia
West Asia, also called Western Asia or Southwest Asia, is the westernmost region of Asia.
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Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.
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World cinema
World cinema is a term in film theory in the United States that refers to films made outside of the American motion picture industry, particularly those in opposition to the aesthetics and values of commercial American cinema.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Wuxia
italic (武俠, literally "martial arts and chivalry") is a genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China.
Yangsan Province
Yangsan Province, also known as The Sunlit Path, is a 1955 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-young.
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Yasujirō Ozu
was a Japanese filmmaker.
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Yossi & Jagger
Yossi & Jagger (Yossi VeJagger) is a 2002 Israeli romantic drama film directed by Eytan Fox about soldiers at the Israel–Lebanon border who try to find some peace and solace from the daily routine of war.
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Yu Hyun-mok
Yu Hyun-mok (July 2, 1925 – June 28, 2009) was a South Korean film director.
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Zhang Ziyi
Zhang Ziyi (born 9 February 1979) is a Chinese actress, model, and former dancer.
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Zoetrope
A zoetrope is a pre-film animation device that produces the illusion of motion, by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion.
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92nd Academy Awards
The 92nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 2019 and took place on February 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m. EST.
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See also
Arts in Asia
- Asian architecture
- Asian art
- Central Asian art
- Cinema of Asia
- Music of Asia
Cinema by continent
- Cinema of Africa
- Cinema of Asia
- Cinema of Europe
- Cinema of North America
- Cinema of Oceania
- Cinema of South America
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Asia
Also known as Asian Cinema, Asian film, Eastern cinema, Far Eastern cinema, History of cinema in Asia, Oriental cinema.
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