Films

=**Resources - East Asian Films** and Videos=

General Resources
UCLA's Center for East Asian Studies has an extensive list of educational films on Asia.[| UCLA's Films on Asia]

China
The Reel China Documentary Festival is an independent film festival that presents the most outstanding contemporary documentaries produced in China. Sponsored by REC Foundation, a leading media agency and multi-cultural non-profit organization with the primary goal to help launch the best Chinese documentaries into the world and enhance worldwide understanding, appreciation and research of these artworks and cultural products, the festival takes place every two years. (Source: Reel China website.) [|Reel China Documentary Films]

[|Click here for notes] on adaptation from novel, development of cinema in China, and character descriptions
 * //To Live//,** available to educators via [|Five College Center for East Asian Studies] - a film about the Cultural Revolution in China

[|China Prep] - (2008) PBS Wide Angle - online video + teacher resources. //China Prep// follows five Chinese students through their final high-pressure year at an elite high school in Sichuan Province.

[|China From the Inside]

Japan
[|Feature Films about Medieval Japan] - UCLA, Center for East Asian Studies.

[|Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire] - PBS (2004). Explores Japanese history and culture between the 16th and 19th centuries.

[|Secrets of the Samurai Sword] - PBS (2008). NOVA explores the creation, art, and science of the Samurai sword. [|Teacher's Guide]

http://100people.org/videos_hiroshima.php- 100 People project views inside a contemporary Japanese school

[|Japan's About-Face] - (July 2008) PBS Wide Angle online video + teacher resources. A window into the shifting role of the military in post-war Japanese society.

Japan Society - [|lesson plan about energy savings] and [|lesson plan about families] connected to film, //My Neighbor Totoro// (anime movie)

Korea
[|Hidden Korea] - PBS (2000). Explores geography, history, culture, religion, and food.

A State of Mind, available to educators via Five College Center for East Asian Studies http://www.smith.edu/fcceas/circulation/search_results.php