Gathering Storm -- A 'Typhoon' of Regional Asian Films

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When it comes to movie making in East and Southeast Asia these days, producers and directors follow this motto: Think globally, act regionally.

Why? The region has never been as integrated or as wealthy as it is now, two decades after the end of the Cold War. Tastes have grown horizontally as commerce, travel and communications intensify in a region whose cultures previously knew little of one another. Japanese girls love new Vietnamese designs of ao-dai dresses; Koreans love Thai martial arts star Tony Jar; Japanese mangas are popular everywhere; and everyone seems to love traveling to Vietnam, and watching Korean movies and soap operas.

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