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Separate Ways

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Homegoing

2010s

Homegoing is the debut historical fiction novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2016. Each chapter in the novel follows a different descendant of an Asante woman named Maame, starting with her two daughters, who are half-sisters, separated by circumstance: Effia marries James Collins, the British...

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Great Wall

Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.

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Separate Ways

Keeps a workable bridge into film through after-hours and longing.

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Night Is Short, Walk on Girl

Carries a strong pull into books through folklore and identity.

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Pulse

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Night Is Short, Walk on Girl

2010s

After their parents' deaths, brother and sister Akito and Akiko Himenokouji were forced to live with separate families for six years. But now they have finally reunited and begin to live together. It quickly becomes apparent that Akiko harbors romantic feelings for her brother; however, Akito only sees her as a sibl...

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A mother and her children separated by slavery in feudal Japan. Compassion against cruelty.

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Great Wall

1990s

Beyond's Cantonese rock argument — civic feeling put through guitars, refusing to treat politics as separate from melody.

Pulse is a 2001 Japanese techno-horror film written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. The plot follows two separate storylines in Japan that faces mass disappearances amidst a ghostly invasion of the real world via the Internet. One f...

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Two lovers separated and reunited across the Iron Curtain. Romance as political geography.

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