Accented Cinema

     

Accented Cinema
YouTuber Information
Profile	Accented Cinema
Style	Review
Date joined	November 15, 2018
Twitter / X	@AccentedCinema
Bluesky	accentedcinema.bsky.social
Facebook	AccentedCinema
Other media	Patreon
Videos	148+
Schedule	Bi-Weekly
Status	Active
Associates	Xiran Jay Zhao • Overly Sarcastic Productions
Username
Personal information
Full name	Yang Zhang
Nationality	Chinese-Canadian
Location	Canada
Most viewed video
Why are Chinese Swords not as Famous - Video Essay
First video
Patriotism in Chinese Cinema - Video Essay

Yang Zhang,^{[citation needed]} better known online as Accented Cinema, is a Chinese-Canadian^{[citation needed]} YouTuber and film essayist who talks about Asian and world cinema. He is also a filmmaker and a photographer.^{[citation needed]}

Content

Accented Cinema makes essays about how themes are portrayed in movies, like patriotism and food. As a lover of foreign films, he has also made videos of Japanese, North Korean, Ugandan, Malaysian and Thai films. He hates modern Chinese films, preferring older ones, as most modern Chinese films are rip offs of more popular ones.

Making several videos centered around the Chinese film industry, he makes videos analyzing the changes and influences on them, sometimes including Chinese philosophy in his analysis too. Occasionally he will review animated movies like Studio Ghibli's Mononoke and Over the Moon. He also makes videos on mainstream anime such as Dragon Ball.

As a child, his favorite movie was the Disney animated film Mulan, fondly recalling how during his youth in China, he watched it on a school trip.

Collaborations

Despite hating knock-offs, he praised Hong Kong's knockoff version of Street Fighter, a video which also featured Xiran Jay Zhao.

He also made a video where Overly Sarcastic Productions talks about the complicated process of translating movies from English to Chinese.^{[citation needed]}

Subscriber Milestones

• 100,000 subscribers: 25th April 2020^{[citation needed]}
• 200,000 subscribers: 22nd December 2020^{[citation needed]}

Trivia

• His least favorite movie of all time is Pure Hearts: Into Chinese Showbiz
• He is also a gamer, occasionally giving game recommendations on Twitter.
• He is a Koronesuki, slipping in one of her clips in his video on Kung Fu Panda
• He was featured in a Polygon article of best video essays along with Hbomberguy, Folding Ideas, MelinaPendulum, Jacob Gellar and Hello Future Me.
• He is bilingual and speaks English and Chinese.^{[citation needed]}
• Zhang is also a fan of the Godzilla films and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.^{[citation needed]}