Clik here to view.
Film Review: Asha Jaoar Majhe aka Labour of Love (2014) by Aditya Vikram...
By Sayandeep Bandyopadhyay Over the years, we have seen many great filmmakers emerging from Bengal, the likes of Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak, Buddhadeb Dasgupta being the most notable...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film Review: Public Toilet (2002) By Fruit Chan
After being discovered as a baby, abandoned in a public washroom, Dong Dong is taken in by an older lady and given the moniker “God of Toilets”. Fast forward to 18 years later, where Dong Dong finds...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film Review: Laplace’s Witch (2018) by Takashi Miike
Bringing together one of the most cult directors (Miike), one of the most popular crime novelists (Keigo Higashino, whose works have been adapted more than 20 times) and a great cast (Sho Sakurai,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film Review: Mystics in Bali (1981) by H. Tjut Djalil
In the wild days of Indonesian exploitation cinema, filmmakers went wild with reckless abandon and offered up countless gems in a variety of genres from a multitude of directors. Despite a handicap on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film Review: Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960) by Ritwik Ghatak
By Anand Singh Sacrifice, a word which conjures images of martyrs, of heroic deeds, and great struggles. We all have dreams and yet, due to circumstances seen and unforeseen, they never materialise....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film Review: Solo, Solitude (2016) by Yosep Anggi Noen
When rioting breaks out in Jakarta in July 1996 and Wiji Thukul’s critical poems are chanted in the squares, the Suharto regime, which has been holding power in Indonesia for over 30 years, shutting...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film Review: The Little Shrimp (2019) by Chen Zhilin (Chilam)
For his Cantonese-language debut feature, the newly-graduated director Chen Zhilin (Chilam) has chosen to fish for inspiration within the comfort zone of his native Guangzhou and his experience of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film Review: The Way To Fight (1996) by Takashi Miike
It’s sometime in the 90’s (according to Miike – year 199X), and the Osaka’s shabby neighborhood is impatiently waiting for the live transmission of the match of the year from the Tokyo dome – a mixed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film Review: Shoplifters (2018) by Hirokazu Kore-eda
“I thought she’d return to her home.” Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda has been a guest at many international film festivals, but 2018 might go down as perhaps the most successful of his career....
View ArticleClik here to view.
The 2019 edition of Germany’s Fantasy Filmfest includes many Asian titles
As September 2019 approaches, so does the 33rd edition of Fantasy Filmfest which will take place in the cities of Berlin, Cologne, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Munich on specific dates during...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film review: Monkey King: Hero is Back (2015) by Tian Xiaopeng
Interestingly, a decent amount of the film’s budget came from crowdfunding from over a hundred local families. “Monkey King” eventually ended up winning the Best Animated Film at the Golden Rooster...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Anime Review: Megalo Box (2018) by Yo Moriyama
In the near future, the chasm between the poor and the rich has widened even further which has increased the demand for ways to keep society’s disenfranchised at bay. Megalo Boxing is one of those...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film Review: The Fall (2018) by Zhou Lidong
For many years, Lin (Zhou Lidong) has been running a small company which sells machinery to other companies and manufacturers, securing him and his family a relatively safe middle-class income and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film Review: Cities of Last Things (2018) by Wi Ding Ho
Film-triptychs have been a source of masterpieces for Asian cinema for many decades, with works like Wong Kar-Wai’s “Chungking Express“, Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s “Three Times” and more recently Jia Zhangke’s...
View ArticleFilm Review: Falasi (2017) by Adam Taufiq Suharto
What has often been seen when it comes to short film projects by young, often first-time directors is the fact that they are able to very cleverly relieve themselves of the burdens of storytelling...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Short Film Review: The Round Trip (2019) by Priyam Chanda
In “The Round Trip”, a roughly fifteen minute short film, director Priyam Chanda and writer Sushovan Dasgupta look to tackle the issues of identity, genealogy and rootlessness. These themes have been...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film Review: My Dear Friend (2018) by Yang Pingdao
If you enjoy films that seduce your mind into artful plays of realities, times, and ideas, “My Dear Friend” by Yang Pingdao, screening at the 2nd Mulan International Film Festival, is a bold...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film Review: Warm House (2019) by Wei Dan
When a film is an honest depiction of the real-life relation, it tends to be more reflective of the universally similar tendencies. ‘Warm House’ is a similar case, a debut feature of its director Wei...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film Review: God’s Puzzle (2008) by Takashi Miike
With “God’s Puzzle” we may have one of the most commercial and perhaps one the most unclassifiable films of Takashi Miike’s filmography at the same time. Adorned with a personal touch and technical...
View Article10 Best Asian Movies Popular in Australia
Hollywood seems to be the most significant film industry in the world, but the Asian movie industry has been blossoming with content over the years. Blockbuster films like ‘The Raid’ (2011) or ‘Train...
View Article