Accented Cinema

Yang Zhang, better known online as Accented Cinema, is a Chinese-Canadian YouTuber and film essayist who talks about Asian and world cinema. He is also a filmmaker and a photographer.
== Content ==
Accented Cinema makes essays about how themes are portrayed in movies, like patriotism and food. As a lover of foreign filmshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voiBAjkJ-ig&ab_channel=AccentedCinema, he has also made videos of Japanesehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_rTeYVwYXE&ab_channel=AccentedCinema, North Koreanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmiCzc56EZE&ab_channel=AccentedCinema, Ugandanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbjLOY9iNEE&ab_channel=AccentedCinema, Malaysianhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJOYFos9Mu4 and Thaihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWjMm2-NT3o&ab_channel=AccentedCinema films. He hates modern Chinese films, preferring older oneshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY5OJEMs59g&ab_channel=AccentedCinema, as most modern Chinese films are rip offs of more popular oneshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKUOOg9CICY&ab_channel=AccentedCinema. 
Making several videos centered around the Chinese film industry, he makes videos analyzing the changes and influences onhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gR0m-tTk6w&ab_channel=AccentedCinema them, sometimes including Chinese philosophyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrUnf_5yvp4&ab_channel=AccentedCinema in his analysis too. Occasionally he will review animatedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwx6i4IQcFw&ab_channel=AccentedCinema movies like Studio Ghibli's Mononokehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXWZmIHHjKM&ab_channel=AccentedCinema and Over the Moonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP50K5uoVvU&ab_channel=AccentedCinema. 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 triphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZccG-wtt5FA&ab_channel=AccentedCinema.
== Collaborations ==
Despite hating knock-offs, he praised Hong Kong's knockoff version of Street Fighterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eyvp0-bulc, 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.
==Subscriber Milestones==
*100,000 subscribers: 25th April 2020
*200,000 subscribers: 22nd December 2020
==Trivia ==
*His least favorite movie of all time is Pure Hearts: Into Chinese Showbizhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzxkOpvZoao&ab_channel=AccentedCinema
*He is also a gamer, occasionally giving gamehttps://twitter.com/AccentedCinema/status/1335570427159130114 recommendationshttps://twitter.com/AccentedCinema/status/1344082210090065920 on Twitter.
*He is a Koronesuki, slipping in one of her clips in his video on Kung Fu Pandahttps://youtu.be/tCCRuUlJ_nA?t=97
*He was featured in a Polygon article of best video essayshttps://twitter.com/AccentedCinema/status/1344360749192384512 along with Hbomberguy, Folding Ideas, MelinaPendulum, Jacob Gellar and Hello Future Me.
*He is bilingual and speaks English and Chinese.
*Zhang is also a fan of the Godzilla films and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
==References==
Category:Chinese YouTubers
Category:Canadian YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2018
Category:Film YouTubers
Category:Review YouTubers
Category:Educational YouTubers
Category:Anime YouTubers