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Documentary Review: Sunday Beauty Queen (2016) by Baby Ruth Villarama
by Leandro E. Seta Winner of the 2016 Metro Manila Film Festival for Best picture and Best editing –Chuck Gutierrez- was the first documentary to ever win the MMFF main category; it was also the first...
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Documentary Review: Yasmin-san (2017) by Edmund Yeo
Documentaries about films are probably among the most difficult cinematic exercises a director has to pull. Edmund Yeo, however, took it a step further, by shooting a documentary about the short film...
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Film Review: Blue Spring (2001) by Toshiaki Toyoda
What started with “Pornostar“, continued in the best way possible in “Blue Spring”, with the concept of the guerilla/punk film finding its apogee here, in probably Toshiaki Toyoda’s best work to date....
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Film Review: The Warped Ones (1960) by Koreyoshi Kurahara
The most visceral experiences force you to bury your head in those two sullen hands at the end of those weakening arms; covered by fingers, you force a peep through the gaps because curiosity is a...
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Film Review: Only She Knows (1960) by Osamu Takahashi
While Osamu Takahashi is not an unimportant figure in the Shochiku Nouvelle Vague movement, his contributions as writer and as Naoki Prize winner are more known than his cinematographic work. One...
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The 19th Nippon Connection announces its first highlights
From May 28 to June 2, 2019 the nineteenth edition of the Nippon Connection Film Festival will take place in Frankfurt am Main. As the biggest festival for Japanese cinema worldwide, it offers an...
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Documentary Analysis: Mental (Seishin) (2008) Kazuhiro Soda
Methodology Kazuhiro Soda is a New York based documentary filmmaker, originally from Japan. Initially, he made his living filming documentaries for television. This involved pre-prepared scripting,...
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Interview with Ridham Janve – I intended to create a sensory experience which...
Ridham Janve directed “The Gold-Laden Sheep & the Sacred Mountain” which he co-wrote with Akshay Singh. It his first full-length feature, having previously directed short documentaries and fiction...
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Film Review: Samui Song (2017) by Pen-ek Ratanaruang
Pen-ek Ratanaruang is a name already recognized and respected inside Asian cinema culture. His filmography has gone from less to more, and lately, his level has remained at a very appreciable level....
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Film Review: The Tag Along (2015) by Cheng Wei-hao
The gluttony of films taking inspiration from the work of Japanese genre films was already dying out by the late 2000s, which makes this Taiwanese oddity seem more antiquated than usual with its late...
View ArticleWhy You Need a VPN in South Korea
There are countries whose censorship of the internet does not raise anybody’s eyebrows. These countries have such undemocratic regimes that their crack down on the freedom of the people’s online...
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Film Review: My Magic (2008) by Eric Khoo
“My Magic” remains the only movie from Singapore to be nominated for the Palme D’Or, while It was also selected as Singapore’s official entry for the Oscars in 2009. Khoo casted Tamil actors, a...
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Film Review: Sabu (2002) by Takashi Miike
It is a rare occasion when Takashi Miike directs an almost completely tame film, while it borders on surprise when you have Tatsuya Fujiwara, one of the most hyperbolic actors in Japanese cinema,...
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UK Premiere of Tsai Ming-Liang’s Feature Length Virtual Reality Film “The...
The UK premiere of The Deserted, Tsai Ming-Liang’s 2017 feature length virtual reality (VR) film, is one of the highlights of the inaugural Taiwan Film Festival UK. The initial screening is on 3 April...
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Film Review: The Age of Our Own (1959) by Koreyoshi Kurahara
Only one year before he paved the way for the frenetic cool of the Japanese New Wave with his unabashedly sexual and violent taiyo zoku film ‘The Warped Ones’, Koreyoshi Kurahara took a huge breath...
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Korean Film “Birthday” to Open Udine Far East Festival 21
Considered to be the largest Asian film festival in Europe, The “Far East Festival 21” is set to run from the 21st to the 29th of April, in Udine, Italy. The festival boasts over 60 films from far...
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Film Review: The Tag-Along 2 (2017) by Cheng Wei-hao
Director Cheng Wei-hao, scriptwriter Chien Shih-Keng and part of the previous cast reteamed for the much-anticipated sequel of Taiwanese horror and box-office hit “The Tag-Along”. The 2015 original...
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Film Review: Terra Formars (2016) by Takashi Miike
Takashi Miike has recently turned towards manga/anime adaptations, with, mostly, impressive results, as his aesthetics seem to fit perfectly to these mediums. This time, he adapts Yu Sasuga’s...
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“Kinetic Visions: The Students of Hasumi Shigehiko” Brings an Eclectic...
A curated programme of Japanese films called “Kinetic Visions: The Students of Hasumi Shigehiko” will be screening at the University of Chicago every Sunday starting this week. The programme will...
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VR Film Review: The Deserted (2017) by Tsai Ming-liang
After being asked to experiment with VR by different parties – including Marco Müller, former Venice Film Festival Director and big mentor and promoter of Asian directors – director Tsai Ming-liang...
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