Styles and Genres
The scope of East Asian cinema is huge and covers a wide array of different film styles and genres. However, East Asian cinema is particularly famous in the West for:
- Martial arts films (notably the various styles of Hong Kong action cinema such as period Kung Fu, action comedies and Wuxia)
- Jidaigeki (Japanese period films, especially Samurai films)
- J-Horror (Japanese horror film)
- K-Horror (Korean horror film)
- Anime (Japanese animation)
- Heroic bloodshed (Hong Kong action films) and other gangster films (usually centred on Chinese Triad crime organisations)
- Tokusatsu (Japanese science fiction including Kaiju monster films)
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