The best East Asian films of 2023
about 5 months ago (12/12/2023)
The best East Asian films of 2023 | Dazed â¬…ï¸ Left Arrow *ï¸âƒ£ Asterisk â Star Option Sliders âœ‰ï¸ Mail Exit Film & TV Dazed Review 2023 From Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s long-awaited Evil Does Not Exist, to Hirokazu Kore-eda’s ‘absolute masterpiece’ Monster 12 December 2023 Text James Balmont The year 2023, now coming to a bitter end, was jam-packed with all kinds of zeitgeist-piercing movies. Killers of the Flower Moon was outstanding, Oppenheimer was overhyped, and Barbie was frankly awful, in this writer’s honest opinion. But this was also, once again, a year in which East Asian filmmaking struck a powerful chord with commercial and arthouse audiences worldwide, with stories of foreign cultures and migrant experiences among the most potent to reach our screens.