Asian cinema is under a global spotlight right now. Thanks to the success of movies like Parasite and the rising profile of Asian actors and TV shows, east Asian productions are surging in popularity with mainstream and arthouse audiences alike. While recent hits such as Past Lives and Tainted Love are garnering plenty of attention, and we eagerly wait for Lulu Wang’s Expats to drop, here are four seriously underrated East Asian movies to check out in 2024.
Breathless (2009)
Director: Yang Ik-june
Directed by and featuring Yang Ik-june in a lead role, 2009’s Breathless is a great example of Korean cinema that’s very much a hidden gem. Exploring the unlikely friendship between a hard-nosed debt collector and a student, the movie delivers an unflinching portrayal of the harsh realities of life.
The narrative unfolds as Sang-hoon (Ik-june) and Yeon-hee (Kim Kkobbi), two strangers from different ends of the spectrum dealing with great personal distress,...
Breathless (2009)
Director: Yang Ik-june
Directed by and featuring Yang Ik-june in a lead role, 2009’s Breathless is a great example of Korean cinema that’s very much a hidden gem. Exploring the unlikely friendship between a hard-nosed debt collector and a student, the movie delivers an unflinching portrayal of the harsh realities of life.
The narrative unfolds as Sang-hoon (Ik-june) and Yeon-hee (Kim Kkobbi), two strangers from different ends of the spectrum dealing with great personal distress,...
- 1/15/2024
- by Peter Adams
- AsianMoviePulse
Spin-off to “Love for Sale” and “Love for Sale 2”, “Arini by Love. Inc” follows one of the trends of the selections Netflix makes from Indonesia, which seem to focus on impression and the popularity of their cast, rather than actual substance. Let us take things from the beginning though.
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The intro shows Arini, the protagonist, getting chased in the night, before the story goes back three years into the past. Then, Arini goes to the office of Love.inc, a dating service(?) that works also as a kind of school, in order to train the people hired (?) on how to eat, speak, dance, and in general conduct themselves in order to succeed in dating. However, the secluded environment also seems to hide a number of secrets, which Arini discovers with the help of Tiara, a woman who initially...
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The intro shows Arini, the protagonist, getting chased in the night, before the story goes back three years into the past. Then, Arini goes to the office of Love.inc, a dating service(?) that works also as a kind of school, in order to train the people hired (?) on how to eat, speak, dance, and in general conduct themselves in order to succeed in dating. However, the secluded environment also seems to hide a number of secrets, which Arini discovers with the help of Tiara, a woman who initially...
- 6/10/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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