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Of the Far Eastern films, Im Kwon-taek’s Mandala is the most profound filmic study on religion and salvation; the Hou is an epic on the history of ordeal told via a tragedy of a family; the Kurosawa, a masterpiece that escapes the limitations of a genre film; and Jia Zhangke’s 2009 Platform, a cinematic achievement that looks into a society in a period of upheaval.