The Asian Student Association hosted a viewing of Studio Ghibli’s classic film “Spirited Away” Monday night in the second week of the organization’s Asian Film Festival. 

Every Monday night until April 27, the organization will be showing a different film in the Scott Borchetta College of Media and Entertainment room 103 starting at 7 p.m.

The process of selecting films was not particularly difficult, since ASA members Sam Glasel and Vince Koch already knew what they wanted to show.

“I knew I wanted to show ‘Parasite,’ ‘Oldboy’ and ‘Spirited Away,’ then Vince brought up the idea of ‘Chungking Express,’” Glasel said. 

Koch and Glasel worked together to decide on the last film that would end the festival in late April. 

“I had always wanted to see Chungking Express, so we threw that one in there. We also added House because we wanted to show an older film, so that it’s not all 2000s films,” Koch said. 

They also wanted to show films from different regions of Asia to highlight differences in filmmaking. 

“[So] we ended up with two Japanese films, two Korean films, and one film from Hong Kong,” Glasel said.

The idea for the showings came about as a way to get more people to learn about the ASA and, in turn, the culture around it. 

“The ASA’s purpose is to get people to learn about Asian culture, and so obviously this is kind of an extension of that,” Koch said. “It also helps people see Asian cinema that they might not normally get to see.” 

Koch and Glasel said that if people are going to come watch a film, they should come see “House” on April 27. 

“It’s so weird. It’s like a psychedelic fever dream. It’s the oldest film we are showing and is a Japanese Horror classic,” said Glasel. 

The organization hopes to have more film festivals like this one in the future.

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