I'm lost on the Kieslowski reference - he was Polish, worked on his later films in France, and died of a heart attack.

Funky Duck raises a good point on the definition of "Asian New Wave".  Geographically, Asia covers the all the independent countries of the former Soviet Union, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, Myanmar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia etc., and certainly, they all weren't influenced by the same creative catalyst.

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