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Welcome to Subway Cinema – Don those heels and clack your way to these newsworthy Asian events in New York City.

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At ImaginAsian Goldie Behl’s DRONA, a modern narrative intertwined with Indian mythology and mysticism is still flitting across the screen. Very Harry Potter meets Bollywood. (More info, I mean, a trailer)

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Opening at the Angelika and at the Lincoln Plaza Cinema on October 10, Wong Kar Wai’s new and improved epic sword fight and vision quest in ASHES OF TIME REDUX. Yo-Yo Ma ’s haunting melodies unfold with the story of a tragic swordsman and his rise to fame. (Watch the trailer)

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As part of the series “Under Mao’s Red Sun: China’s Cultural Revolution on Film” at the Asia Society, Michelangelo Antonioni’s CHUNG KUO CHINA will be featured on October 11. The film presents an Italian perspective on communist China. The series continues until October 18^th. Complete listings and schedule. (More info)

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Screening now until October 12, the 46^th New York Film Festival presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. (More info)

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Playing until October 14 as a sidebar to the New York Film Festival, a long look at the films of Nagisa Oshima. (More info)

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At Film Forum, Caroline Suh’s FRONTRUNNERS delves into the big personalities of the youth at Stuyvesant, NYC’s high school for talented and overachieving students. Follow their class president elections that elevate the stakes beyond hallway posters. Showing Oct 15- October 21 with the filmmaker present October 15. (More info)

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At the Korean Society, on October 16, Park Kwang-su’s BLACK REPUBLIC portrays the life of an idealistic demonstrator on the run after a civil rights protest goes awry. Based on the real events of the1980 “Gwangju Uprising” in South Korea. (More info)