From magic, spells, ghosts, fantasies, speculative fiction, folktales to mythology—this course delves into the weird and wondrous worlds of Asian cinema. This course is guided by three core questions: 1) How do cinematic hypothetical, nonlinear, alternate or parallel realities, derive from or reinvent existing cosmological beliefs? 2) How through cinema’s enchanted dimension could we reassess how cinema responds not only to the exigencies of its time but also record dreams of the past and future? 3) How do the formal and technical aspects of enchanted films contribute to their capacities for worldbuilding? Films studied in this class could include the genres of horror, drama, science fiction and fantasy, and comedy.