“Cinema is nation-building. When Hollywood became a machinery and a technological dictatorship, cinema was reinvented into ‘national cinemas.’ This historical development provides us an understanding of how cinema comments on the identities, or the problems of the identification and definition of the same identities, and throws those words onto the world screen. Thus, there came to be ‘French cinema,’ ‘Italian cinema,’ ‘Japanese cinema.’ All these labels were and are responses and counteractions to the aggressively marketed and arrogantly exhibited films from Hollywood,” film critic Tito Genova Valiente once wrote.