This movie screening is free and open to the public! About the Movie: "A Korean police captain named Lee Jung-chool (Song Kang-ho) has been charged with rooting out members of his country’s resistance movement by his cruel Japanese overlords. But while Lee … Read more
A Taxi Driver is a 2017 South Korean historicalaction drama film directed by Jang Hoon, with Song Kang-ho starring in the title role, alongside Thomas Kretschmann. The film centers on a taxi driver from Seoul, who unintentionally becomes involved in the events of the Gwangju Democratization Movement in 1980. Free … Read more
Tokyo Story (1953), the most famous film in Ozu Yasuji's so-called "Noriko triology" and regularly ranked first among the top-ten greatest films of all time, is based loosely on Leo McCrarey's 1937 American melodrama, Make Way for Tomorrow. An elderly … Read more
Filmed over three years in China and the U.S., MAINELAND is a multi-layered coming-of-age tale that follows two affluent and cosmopolitan teenagers as they settle into a boarding school in blue-collar rural Maine. Part of the enormous wave of "parachute … Read more
The Carolina Asia Center is proud to invite everyone to our Triangle East Asia Colloquium 2019 on the theme of Transnational Korean Cinema and Media from March 28 - 29, 2019 featuring short films and panelists from all around the … Read more
The Carolina Asia Center is proud to invite everyone to our Triangle East Asia Colloquium 2019 on the theme of Transnational Korean Cinema and Media from March 28 - 29, 2019 featuring short films and panelists from all around the … Read more
Recently qualified for the 2019 Oscars, the award-winning and feature documentary "Letter from Masanjia" will be coming to you at the University of North Carolina! "Letter from Masanjia" tells the story of how a desperate SOS note from a Chinese … Read more
Gamelan Nyai Saraswati Spring Concert & Workshop The Spring 2019 Concert of UNC's Nyai Saraswati Gamelan will be held on Wednesday evening, April 24, at 8:00 PM, in Hill Hall room 1007. The concert is free and open to the … Read more
The Carolina Asia Center supports diverse Asia-related events. However, CAC co-sponsorship of any talk, seminar, documentary screening, film screening, performance or celebration does not constitute endorsement of or agreement with the views presented therein. As an academic institution, we value diverse perspectives that promote dialogue and understanding.
