Oscar Loves... East Asia

This month, Team OLFC gather to discuss the Academy's fascination with East Asia, and the landmark moment in which the first film not in the English language took home Best Picture.

The Bridge on the River Kwai is directed by Sir David Lean and stars Sir Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson, the senior British officer held with his troops in a Japanese POW camp tasked to build a bridge over the River Kwai in Burma, as Majors Warden (Jack Hawkins) and Shears (William Holden) attempt to prevent it.

In Parasite, directed by Bong Joon-ho, we follow the struggling Kim family as one by one they infiltrate the service of the wealthy Park family and their extraordinary home. But all is not as it seems, particularly when former housekeeper Gook Moon-gwang shows up unexpectedly one night.

Thank you to Thomas Whitelaw for our intro music and Rachel Valentine Smith for our artwork. This episode was recorded remotely and so we apologise for any changes in sound quality present.