New Asian Cinema

In recent years, India has produced an annual average of over 1,500 films. The wrestling film Dangal directed by Nitesh Tiwari made nearly US$190 million in China’s box office in 2016.

The beginning of the 20th century marks a time in which China gave birth to her First Generation of filmmakers. Most of the first generation were cinematographers who adopted the film medium and recorded live performances like Peking operas.

The HFPA’s Ting Ting Xu examines Asian film trends through standout films and the authors behind them. Japan is the world’s third-largest box office market after North America and China.

A Sun is the latest film from Taiwanese director, writer, and cinematographer Chung Mong-Hong. In 2019, the film won Taiwan’s most prestigious Golden Horse Awards including Best Film and Best Director.

The HFPA’s Ting Ting Xu examines Asian film trends through standout films and the authors behind them. After Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite became the first non-English language film in Oscar history to win the award for Best Picture, as well as the Foreign Language Golden Globe, films from South Korea received an unprecedented amount of attention on the global market.

The HFPA’s Ting Ting Xu examines Asian film trends through standout films and the authors behind them. In the history of Chinese cinema, there have been until lately only a few films about Tibet, including director Zhang Yang's pilgrimage movie Paths of the Soul, Tian Zhuangzhuang’s The Horse Thief and a propaganda film Red River Valley.

The HFPA’s Ting Ting Xu examines Asian film trends through standout films and the authors behind them. Though it took Hong Kong director Derek Kwok Cheung Tsang and producer Peter Ho-Sun Chan almost a year to obtain a theatrical release permit from the mainland Chinese authorities, their film Better Days became an instant hit once it got released in October 2019.