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Film Analysis: The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin (1978) by Lau Kar-leung
“The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin” is a 1978 Kung Fu action film, mixing up a melting pot of action, politics, Buddhism, comedy, high drama and lots of cool moves. This is a film for men by men filled with...
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Film Review: Kala (2007) by Joko Anwar
Shot in only 28 days, a magnificent accomplishment when one considers the technical quality of the film, Joko Anwar’s second film was a great prelude of what was about to follow. “Kala” was a big...
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Film Review: A Bride for Rip Van Winkle (2016) by Shunji Iwai
I have to admit here, I consider Shunji Iwai one of the most originals voices of Japanese cinema, an artist whose every work deserves more than a look, to say the least. “A Bride for Rip Van Winkle”...
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Documentary Review: Caniba (2016) by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel
From the creators of “Leviathan” and through Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab comes one of the most intense documentaries of the latest years, focusing on the infamous Japanese cannibal, Issei...
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Film Review: Fires on the Plain (2014) by Shinya Tsukamoto
Based on the novel Nobi by Natto Wada, the original, 1959 film, instigated much controversy in the west, for its grotesqueness and the fact that it portrayed Japanese soldiers as victims. In Japan,...
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Film Review: Vagabond (2013) by Bala
This week has been one for first times, since, after watching my first Mongolian film, “Shift”, I also caught my first Tamil Nadu one, and I have to say I am impressed “Vagabond”, a film that starts...
View ArticleFilm Review: Teen Patti (2010) by Leena Yadav
Starring legendary actors Amitabh Bachchan and Ben Kingsley, and directed by Leena Yadav (whose movies have premiered at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival), Teen Patti is about a...
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Film Review: Kung Fu Yoga (2017) by Stanley Tong
With “Kung Fu Yoga,” Jackie Chan reunites with one of his regular collaborators, Stanley Tong, for their second movie that has a touch of Bollywood flavoring. Buy This Title Jack (Jackie Chan) is an...
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Documentary Review: Kusama Infinity (2018) by Heather Lenz
I have to admit my knowledge of the modern art world is very limited, and therefore I did not know who Yayoi Kusama is. At the end of this documentary, I have truly regretted my lack of knowledge,...
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The 11 Best Asian Documentaries of 2018
Evidently, not the most popular category of films out there; nevertheless, documentaries can offer as much entertainment as any movie, and in the process, educate, remind, and have a considerable...
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The 20 Best Asian Films of 2018
20 of the contributors of Asian Movie Pulse have voted the 20 Best Films of 2018, resulting in what we consider a great selection, both regarding the top and the overall diversity, since the list...
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Film review: “The Birth Land” (2018) by Proshoon Rahmaan
Proshoon Rahmaan comes back as a director with the movie “The Birth Land”. He is currently working on a trilogy but still manages to present this new movie, that went out at the end of 2018 in...
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Film Review: Didi’s Dream (2017) by Kevin Tsai
At the first sight, almost everything about “Didi’s Dream”, or “Yum Yum Love”, somehow suggests another from the line of the stories about a leftover woman who is single (of course), smart, successful...
View ArticleTrailer for Upcoming Korean Movie “Witness” by Lee Han
Not to be confused with the thriller “The Witness” which released earlier this year starring the excellent Lee Sung-min, director Lee Han’s (“Lovers’ Converto”, “Punch”, “Thread of Lies”) newest film...
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Film Review: Once Upon A Time in China 3 (1993) by Tsui Hark
The adventures of Wong Fei-hung continue in Beijing this time, in the most personal film of the trilogy, as his father is introduced and plays a significant part in the narrative, and also the most...
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Film Review: Ring 2 (1999) by Hideo Nakata
“Why were you the only one saved?” Although this might sound like an exaggeration, but the way, especially Western audiences view Japanese, or indeed Asian horror fundamentally changed with Hideo...
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“One Cut Of The Dead” is in UK cinemas
is please to announce the limited theatrical release ofOne Cut Of The Dead (15)the debut film of Shinichiro Ueda The biggest surprise of 2018! A one-in-a-million success!A “workshop” film project with...
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Film Review: The Great Battle (2018) by Kim Kwang-sik
One of the bloodiest confrontations in Korean history, the story of the siege of Ansi, where Goguryeo forces held their fortress against 200,000 invading Tang soldiers that raged for eighty-eight...
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Film Review: Jesus (2018) by Hiroshi Okuyama
Adam Torel’s top ten of Japanese movies has always been one of the treats of the year, for all fans of the country’s cinema, since most of his choices are relatively unknown at the time of its...
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Film Review: Dad’s Lunch Box (2017) by Masakazu Fukatsu
“Papa no Obento wa Sekai-Ichi” is based on a Twitter feed that went viral about a year ago (in 2016), and Fukatsu said in an email interview that he came upon it accidentally while scrolling. Tokikazu...
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