subtle asian traits

may is asian american pacific islander heritage month!!! i compiled a starter pack of canon asian + asian american media for anyone whose interested and wants to dabble :)

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anime movies:
- akira
- ghost in the shell
- night is short, walk on girl
- paprika

asian movies:
- in the mood for love dir by wong kar-wai
- drive my car dir by ryusuke hamaguchi
- decision to leave dir by park chan-wook
- crouching tiger, hidden dragon dir by ang lee
- kung fu hustle dir by stephen chow

asian american movies:
- better luck tomorrow dir by justin lin
- minari dir be lee isaac chung
- crazy rich asians dir by jon m chu

kdramas (these are more recent, very beginner friendly):
- queen of tears
- glory
- vincenzo
- itaewon class

if anyone has recs drop them in the thread or quote cast with your own recs :)

some of my all time fav books written by asian / asian american / half asian authors:
- pachinko (min jin lee)
- the sympathizer (viet thanh nguyen)
- tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow (gabrielle zevin)
- crying in h mart (michelle zauner)
- 3 body problem (cixin liu)
- never let me go (kazuo ishiguro)

i enjoyed warrior and the brothers sun as well

Always Be My Maybe 
Movie on Netflix with Amy Wong and Randall Park

Also has wasian Keanu Reeves

I feel it doesn't promote Asian negative stereotypes but it doesn't whitewash them like other films do.

It's a fun rom com I watched once a year ish.