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Film review: Organ (2018) by Emiko Hiramatsu
While Emiko Hiramatsu is a rather unknown name as a director, one might know her as co-screenwriter on many of Yoji Yamada’s recent narratives (“Kabei, Our mother” (2006), “What a Wonderful Family”...
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Film Review: Zombiology: Enjoy Yourself Tonight (2017) by Alan Lo
With the massive popularity following “Train to Busan”, it seems inevitable that other Asian countries are keen to follow suit in offering their own take on the tired zombie genre which explains this...
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Film Review: Sir (2018) by Rohena Gera
When Indian independent cinema deals with intercaste relationships or the issues involving employers and their servants, it usually produces dark, gritty and high-caliber dramas. However, “Sir”, the...
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Documentary Review: Kabul, City in the Wind (2019) by Aboozar Amini
Afghan director Aboozar Amini’s first feature documentary “Kabul, City in the Wind” was selected to open the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and, after a passage at the...
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Film Review: Battle of Memories (2017) by Leste Chen
China’s film industry is the second largest in the world behind Hollywood – although home grown productions tend to struggle both in the domestic and global marketplace. In the first week of release,...
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Film Review: With Prisoners (2017) by Andrew Wong Kwok-huen
Hong Kong films that have the prison system as their main theme are a rarity in the local cinema, particularly if we exclude the CAT III ones. “With Prisoners”, which is loosely based on a true story...
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Interview with Natsuki Nakagawa: “I did not intend to mention the current...
Newcomer director Natsuki Nakagawa made an appearance at NIPPON CONNECTION in Frankfurt to present her debut film “She is Alone“. We took the opportunity and talked with the aspiring filmmaker about...
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Film Review: Close-Knit (2017) by Naoko Ogigami
Love, family, and relationships; our lives revolve around it, even for the most misanthropic of us. At the risk of sounding cheesy, no matter how much we fight with our family, no matter how estranged...
View ArticleTrailer for Upcoming Japanese Live Action Film ‘Tokyo Ghoul S’
Based on the popular Japanese series ‘Tokyo Ghoul‘, written and illustrated by Sui Ishida, a live-action film titled Tokyo Ghoul was released in 2017. Tokyo Ghoul introduced us to a college student,...
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Film Review: When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes (2019) by Tatsushi...
Tatsushi Omori’s career to date has been steady, if unspectacular, with a series of gentle films over the last decade-or-so, often delivered by a solid cast, culminating in ‘Every Day a Good Day’...
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Free screenings of Japanese movies by Japan Foundation, London
As part of their “Pre-Summer Explorers!”-program the Japan Foundation, London offers screenings of six Japanese titles at the end of June. All screenings are free and will present the diversity of...
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Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away” is finally set to show in Chinese cinemas.
One of the best and most successful films Studio Ghibli has ever produced – “Spirited Away” – had to wait 18 years to be released in China. A sign that the relationship between Japan and China is...
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Interview with Mostofa Sarwar Farooki: I love to show heat, not the fire
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is a Bangladeshi film director, screenwriter and film producer. Farooki is considered one of the leading figures to bring modernism/realism in Bangladeshi Cinema, those who have...
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Film Review: Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1979) by John Woo
Before inventing the “Heroic Bloodshed” genre in the 80’s, with films that shaped action cinema for decades, like “A Better Tomorrow” and “The Killer”, John Woo was directing martial-arts films for...
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Short Film Review film: Chuhedani (Mousetrap) (2019) by Ravi Shankar Kaushik
The 30-min short film “Chuhedani” (Mousetrap), written and directed by Ravi Shankar Kaushik is quickly gathering consensus and kudos. After winning the First Place Narrative International Short Film...
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Film Review: The Lift Boy (2019) by Jonathan Augustin
The Lift Boy is a coming-of-age tale of engineering student Raju (Moin Khan) who belongs to a considerably lower financial class. His father, Krishna (Saagar Kale) used to work as a lift operator...
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Film Review: Dealer/Healer (2017) by Lawrence Ah Mon
By Shikhar Verma Drug addiction and crime are so closely knitted to each other that a descend into either of them eventually leads to the other. The hardest part is not losing your body and soul to...
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Film Review: The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio (2016) by Takashi Miike
“Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio” is a rude, crude and completely daft Yakuza comedy, based on the manga by Noboru Takahashi, and directed by Takashi Miike, the maverick Japanese director. This is an...
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Film Review: Five Deadly Venoms (1978) by Chang Cheh
One of the most venerated titles in their filmography, the Shaw Brothers studios hit a pop-culture high with this engaging kung-fu masterpiece. Featuring director Chang Cheh at the top of his game and...
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Film Review: Kattumaram (2019) by Swarnavel Eswaran
Until quite recently, the subjects related to the queer identity hadn’t been a part of Indian Cinema. Even if some efforts were being taken in the form of the films like “Fire” (1996) or the anthology...
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