Closing out her series on Akira Kurosawa's Shakespeare adaptations, Hanna watches Ran, his take on King Lear and one of the greatest films in his oeuvre. 

Out, damned spot! Hanna gets everything she wanted and more out of Akira Kurosawa's 1957 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth.

Hanna watches legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's take on Shakespeare's Hamlet, a 1960 neo-noir crime mystery entitled The Bad Sleep Well.

Bidding farewell to Tsai Ming-liang and his favorite actors for now, Hanna watches his 2003 movie Goodbye, Dragon Inn.

Hanna watches Tsai Ming Liang's oddly prescient movie The Hole (1998), which follows the lives of two tenants' experience living under quarantine as a strange pandemic affects Taiwan. 

This week, Hanna follows the three lonely characters of Tsai Ming Liang's 1994 movie Vive L'Amour as they go about their quirky, aimless, and sad days.

Hanna circles back to Taiwanese New Wave to watch the movies of Tsai Ming Liang, starting with his first feature film, Rebels of the Neon God. 

Hanna rewatches one of her favorite movies featuring actress Michelle Trachtenberg, who passed away suddenly on February 26 at the age of 39: Gregg Araki's 2004 coming-of-age drama, Mysterious Skin.

Following her series on martial arts movies, Hanna can't help but cover one particular American movie that happened to draw a lot of inspiration from East Asia's wuxia and kung fu flicks.

This week, Hanna watches the last movie Bruce Lee ever made in his tragically short life, and reflects on the lasting influence martial arts movies have had on popular culture.