Mutually revivifying cross-cultural exchange, and the chimeric cinematic hybrids that are bred by it, are showcased in this series of deliriously entertaining east-meets-west genre mashups. Here you’ll find Asian filmmakers drawing inspiration from American Westerns (and their knockoff Italian counterparts) in films like Sukiyaki Western Django and The Good, the Bad, the Weird; American filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino and Jim Jarmusch paying homage to old masters from East Asia; and Chicagoan legends the Wachowskis, in bringing legendary Hong Kong fight choreographer Yuen Woo-ping onto their The Matrix team, effectively revolutionizing American studio-made action cinema. In the words of George Clinton: “It’s all one world, one planet, and one groove.”
