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Movies about Japan: Historical

By moviejourneys On March 29, 2015 · Add Comment · In Far East, Japan & Korea

In the early 1950s, three Japanese movies won Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The first of these was Rashomon (1950), a period drama made by Akira Kurosawa. It is widely acknowledged as the first Japanese film to open the doors to the Western market in the years after World War II. The story [...]

Movies about Japan: 20th Century Forward

By moviejourneys On March 26, 2015 · Add Comment · In Far East, Japan & Korea, Uncategorized

The years following World War II brought on an intensity of reflection for both the Japanese people and their American occupiers. Each side struggled to come to terms with what had happened, and to move past it. Much of this examination occurred through the lens of the movie camera. One facet of Japanese self-reflection in this [...]

Movies about the Koreas

By moviejourneys On January 30, 2015 · Add Comment · In Far East, Japan & Korea

Neither North Korea nor South Korea have released enough movies to the Western market for me to be able to build effective models of their history and culture. Here is a brief sampler of a few movies from South Korea that touch on some high points. I will not dignify The Interview as a movie [...]

Movies about the Chinese Imperial Dynasties

By moviejourneys On January 29, 2015 · Add Comment · In China, Far East

More than most of the countries covered on this website, China has provided the movies with an exceptionally coherent record of its history. I have even found one film depicting life in China before the formation of the first imperial dynasty in 221 BCE. There are three films about the birth of that landmark dynasty, each [...]

Movies about Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, and Marco Polo

By moviejourneys On January 29, 2015 · Add Comment · In China, Far East

The Legend of Genghis Khan There are parts of the world today where Genghis Khan (c. 1162-1227) is viewed as the ultimate culture hero and founder of the largest empire on a single land mass in human history. There are others who see him as the most murderous conqueror ever to scourge the face of [...]

Movies about Modern China

By moviejourneys On January 29, 2015 · Add Comment · In China, Far East

My long list of movies about modern China breaks into two distinct timeframes. First is the span of three decades from the collapse of the last Imperial Dynasty in 1911 to the onset of World War II. The second begins in the late 1940s, after the war is over. It covers the rise to power [...]

Movies about Thailand

By moviejourneys On January 13, 2015 · Add Comment · In Far East, Southeast Asia

Thailand Thailand is a young country with an exceptional continuity of history and culture. It took shape after the fall of the Khmer Empire only over the last millennium. The Thai people have three primary loyalties: their Buddhist religion, their king, and the nation. The kingdom was known as Siam until 1939 when a constitutional [...]

Movies about Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar

By moviejourneys On January 13, 2015 · Add Comment · In Far East, Southeast Asia, Uncategorized

From the Caravan Journals: February 2001. Departing Thailand, we had a choice between diverting to Angkor Wat in Cambodia or to Hanoi. I have always regretted missing Angkor Wat, spiritual epicenter of Southeast Asia, about which I have found no movies, but I have never regretted going to Vietnam. We were there in 2001, soon [...]

Movies about Bhutan

By moviejourneys On January 13, 2015 · Add Comment · In Far East, Himalayas, Uncategorized

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