Start date: March 16th, 2025
End date: TBA
Korea: 09| Japan: 07| Thai: 01| China: 01| Philippines: 01| Taiwan: 00| Hong Kong 00
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Movie Watch Challenge
Category 1
Watch a film from the 20th century- Long Live the Island Frogs- 03/21 *1976
Watch a film from the early 2000s- Honey and Clover- 04/08 * 2006
Watch a film from the 2010s- Love Actually... Sucks!- 03/18 *2011
Watch a film from the 2020s- Citizen of a Kind- 03/16 *2024
4/4 completed- Block Completed
Category 2
Watch a film rated 8.5 or higher- Monster 2023- 04/08 9.0 as of 04/08
Watch a film with less than 1000 watchers- Act- 03/18 *186 as of 03/18
Watch a documentary-Night Scene- 07/12
Watch a film with an actor who has 40+ years in the film industry- The City of Lost Souls- 04/08 *Kikkawa Koji (41 years)
4/4 completed- Block Completed
Category 3
Watch a film shot in black and white (B&W)- Tokyo Rhapsody- 04/08
Watch a surrealist/arthouse film- Dark Nuns-04/28
Watch an anthology- Phobia 2-PTW
Watch a film by a director who has more than 3 shows/movies rated 8.3 or higher- Under the Parallel Skies- 03/21 *Sigrid Andrea Bernardo (a lot of them is when she was an assistant director, which I am not sure if that counts)
3/4 completed
Category 4: Bonus Round
Watch a film that is on your Plan-to-Watch List- Cells at Work!- 06/14
Watch a film genre that you watch the least (look at stats from last year to complete it)-
Watch a film genre that is in the middle of your stats (look at stats from last year)- Last Summer- 03/21 *Mystery
Watch a film that has an actor/ess you have not seen before (dubuted this year or you have not seen this person before in general) as a lead
Watch a film that has an actor/ess that you don't watch often (either you don't like their acting in general or you don't gravitate towards their projects when they are the leads)- Secret: Untold Melody- 06/14 *Won Ji Ah (I like her acting, I just don't gravitate towards her work right away)
3/5 completed
Category 5: Bonus Round 2
Watch a film that is directed by someone you have not watched before- Bullet Train Explosion- 06/17 *Higuchi Shinji
Watch a film that is written by someone you have not watched before- A Brand New Life- 04/29 *Ounie Lecomte (written and directed)
Watch a film that someone from the cast, has worked behind the camera before (director, written, produced, stunt coordinator, etc.) *NOTE: they do NOT need to star in the movie that they directed (example: in Harbin, Park Jeong Min did not direct the movie, but has directed something else)- Harbin- 06/14 *Park Jeong Min has directed a movie called Unframed
Watch a film that has more than 1 director or a person who did screenwrite and directed the movie- Wall to Wall- 07/26 *Kim Tae Joon both directed and written this movie
Watch a film you have never heard of- Firefighters- 06/14
5/5 completed- Completed
Category 6: Bonus Round 3
Watch a film that is based on a manga/comic
Watch a film that is based on a webtoon
Watch a film that is based on a true story/event- 1987: When the Day Comes- 06/23
Watch a film that is based on novel/book- Little Nights, Little Love- 05/24 *Novel
Watch a film that is based on a game
Watch a film that is based on a song
Watch a film that is based on a play- The Portrait- 07/05
3/7 completed