food scarcity

His films like 'The Assassin' and 'A City of Sadness' explore survival and scarcity within post-war and impoverished communities with poetic restraint.

'The Battleship Potemkin' and 'October' depict revolutionary fervor against a backdrop of widespread hunger and resource deprivation in early Soviet Russia.

'Parasite' and 'Okja' directly confront economic inequality and food scarcity as central mechanisms of class conflict and human desperation.