College movies can have such a diverse and vast audience. We watch these movies as teens, dreaming about college life to happen sooner. We watch them at college, to see people like us represented in the cinema. We watch them later in life whenever we feel nostalgic about those young years. Hence, a good college movie can be a true treasure for many people of different ages and experiences. In our list, we have collected 7 must-watch Asian movies about college life. Get some popcorn, and pick the one that speaks to you tonight.
1. You are the Apple of My Eye (2011)
A classical story of a good girl falling for a bad boy. Somehow these types of stories never get out of style. This time the movie is set back in the 1990s. A bright girl Shen Chia-Yi is the best student at school. Though, a lot is yet to change when she meets and falls in love with Ko Ching-Teng, a typical ‘bad boy’ kind of guy. Being shot in Taiwan in 2011, the movie is still quite funny and relatable to a young audience across the globe. It is also quite interesting to see Taiwan in the 1990s. Though, if you want to learn more about the history of this country, you can check some speedypaper reviews before asking them for a history essay.
2. Architecture 101 (2012)
How does it feel to meet your former and first lover after 15 years apart? Well, the Korean movie Architecture 101 can tell you all about it. Seung Min and Seo Yeon were young naive architecture students when they saw each other last time. Now, Seo Yeon has found her former college love to help her build a house of her dreams. This movie may not be set in college, though it surely brings us there. It is a nostalgic, romantic, and very beautiful movie to watch.
3. My Old Classmate (2014)
This is your typical coming of age movie shit in China in 2014. It has everything you’d like to see in such a movie. It’s romantic, funny, and highly relatable. It is a perfect field for a light watch after a long day. My Old Classmate can bring back the memories of your first crushes. In fact, it can even help you relive those feelings again.
4. So Young (2013)
So Young, made by Chinese director Zhao Wei, is a beautiful film about the reality of young adulthood. The movie plot starts at college and moves on to the main character’s adult life a few years after college. It shows the true hardships of finding your own identity and place in the world while being so young and inexperienced. It’s not as cheerful or light as the majority of college movies, though it is worth your time. It peaks the whole truth if the time when you are the most vulnerable, yet strong and ambitious.
5. Boys over Flowers (2009)
Boys over Flowers is yet another Korean college love story that everyone needs to watch at least once in a lifetime. It starts pretty ordinarily, with a poor girl falling in love with a boy from a rich and very powerful family. However, over the course of the movie, things are getting different than you’d expect it. It is a tv series that is based on famous Japanese manga. It has gained world popularity and is currently available on Netflix.
6. My Sassy Girl (2001)
This movie is quite unusual for a typical coming of age story, let’s tell you this from the very start. The Korean film is about a college student, Gyun-woo, who seems to have a series of unlucky events unwrapping before him. Nevertheless, it seems to matter much less as soon as he meets The Girl. The only who turns his world upside down. There is everything you expect and don’t expect from a college movie. There is love, friendship, hardships of young adolescence, and much more. Better see it for yourself. This movie was one of the big breaks though for Korean movies at the time.
7. Twenty (2015)
This Korean film deserves to have a spot in the all-time classics of coming of age movies. The plot seems to be quite simple at first glance. It is about three friends in their early 20s. These guys are trying to figure out life, love, studies, friendship, and pretty much everything else. At first, they seem to be the type of boys who say, “I prefer having people to write essays for me“. Though, sooner you start to realize that these characters are rather deep and even touching at times.
