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Asia Pacific Media Center - (dead link) University of Southern California

Asian Cinema Studies Society

Asian, Pacific, & South Asian Video
Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley

Asian Film Connections
"In collaboration with the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema - (dead link) (NETPAC) and the University of Southern California's University Libraries, Center for East Asian Studies, and key institutions in Asia and other international-based organizations, the Asia Pacific Media Center - (dead link) (APMC), based at USC's Annenberg Center for Communication, is developing this innovative and important new Website where contemporary, culturally significant feature films from China, India, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan are promoted through on-line video clips, press kits, filmographies, and critical analyses contributed by film scholars and critics from Asia as well as internationally."

China, Japan, Korea, & Pacific Islands
Videography from the Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley

Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema - (dead link)

SAWNET: South Asian Women's Cinema - (dead link)
Topics includes Reviews; Films and film-makers; Articles about South Asian cinema; and Related links

South and South East Asia and Oceania Studies
Videography from the Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley

China
Chinese Cinema
On this well designed site topics include Actors, Bibliography, Directors, Film Reviews, General, Lists & Databases, and Video Clips.

A Chinese Cinema Page
"texts on films from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the People's Republic of China."
By Shelly Kraicer

Chinese Films List
200+ films listed in The Internet Movie Database

Chinese Movie Database
Filmographies in Chinese or English

Hong Kong Cinema - (dead link)

Hou Hsiao-hsien Filmography
Internet Movie Database

Narrating National Sadness- Cinematic Mapping and Hypertextual Dispersion
A wonderful multimedia article from UC Berkeley's CinemaSpace on City of Sadness (Beiqing Chengshi),
By Abe Mark Nornes and Yeh Yueh-yu

Zhang Yimou
Internet Movie Database

India
Best of Bollywood

Hindi Film Geet Kosh
Encyclopedia of Hindi Film Songs

The Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection
University of California, Santa Cruz

Japan
Akira Kurosawa Database

Kinema Club
"...is devoted to the study of Japanese moving image media, and is produced through the collaboration of many scholars around the world. It keeps everyone connected as a storehouse of information, and by serving as the host to the newsgroup KineJapan. It has many riches to offer the student of Japanese film and television, but don't miss its collection of criticism and the searchable database of books and articles on Japanese media."

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