Villagers play the British at cricket to escape a tax; three hours and forty-four minutes of it.
Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol from London to Punjab; running in a Mumbai cinema since 1995.
A lonely wife in 1879 Calcutta and her husband's cousin; Satyajit Ray's own favourite.
A village woman raises her sons through famine and debt; the Indian epic of 1957.
Two thieves hired to catch a bandit; the biggest Bollywood film ever, still quoted daily.
A master chef and his three daughters over Sunday dinners in Taipei; Ang Lee before Hollywood.
Four hours of Taipei teenagers in 1960 and a murder; Edward Yang's masterpiece.
A family in Taiwan between the Japanese surrender and the 1947 massacre; Hou's Golden Lion.
Stephen Chow's cartoon martial-arts comedy in a 1940s Shanghai slum.
Bruce Lee at a martial-arts tournament on an island fortress; the mirror room.
Jackie Chan learns the drunken boxing style from a beggar; kung fu comedy at its purest.
Jackie Chan slides down a pole of lights through a shopping mall; his own best film.
Chow Yun-fat lights a cigarette with a burning banknote; the heroic bloodshed genre begins.
A hitman tries to fund an eye operation for the singer he blinded; Woo's doves and two-gun ballet.
Chow Yun-fat in a hospital shootout of one continuous take; John Woo's Hong Kong farewell.
A cop in the triads and a triad in the police; the film The Departed remade.
Leslie Cheung as a playboy in 1960 Hong Kong; the first of Wong Kar-wai's loose trilogy.
A writer in a Hong Kong hotel and a science-fiction train to 2046; the sequel to In the Mood for Love.
A hitman, his agent and a mute who breaks into shops at night; Chungking Express after dark.
Two men from Hong Kong falling apart in Buenos Aires; Wong Kar-wai and the Iguazu falls.
A bamboo forest fight and an echo game of drums; wuxia at its most beautiful.
Jet Li tells the King of Qin three versions of a story, each in a different colour.
A family through forty years of Chinese history, from the civil war to the Cultural Revolution.
A fourth wife in a 1920s compound competing for the lantern; Zhang Yimou and Gong Li.
A Seoul cabbie drives a German reporter into the Gwangju uprising of 1980.
A secret agent hunts and repeatedly releases the man who killed his fiancee; Kim Jee-woon's revenge extreme.
A village policeman, a Japanese stranger and a shaman; Korean horror that refuses to settle.
A grandmother with early Alzheimer's takes a poetry class as her grandson's crime surfaces.
Zombies on the KTX from Seoul; the Korean blockbuster with a heart.
A monster from the Han river takes a girl and her family goes after it; Bong's creature feature.
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