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Film Review: Yasha/Demon (1985) by Yasuo Furuhata
Yasha, a concept that comes from Hindu mythology, refers to benevolent nature spirits who take care of trees and the earth. In Buddhism, however, they were interpreted as evil, ghost-like spirits who...
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Film Review: Dust and Ashes (2019) by Park Hee-kwon
Running from one badly paid job to the other, Hae-su (Ahn So-yo) has no time to think about what awaits her back home. When she finally enters the apartment late at night, she decides to postpone the...
View ArticleShort Film Review: A Tale of an Evil Choice (2019) by Sifat Rahman
“A Tale of an Evil Choice” can best be described as a PSA, one which would be played during the commercial break on daytime kids’ television, in both content and 1 minute run-time. This is not an...
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Film Review: Equinox Flower (1958) by Yasujirō Ozu
The first film in Ozu’s oeuvre shot in colour, “Equinox Flower” depicts the younger generation in a more sympathetic light than the earlier works of the Japanese master. Based on the novel by Ton...
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Interview with Sabu: “Sometimes, I let the actors run as long as possible...
Hiroyuki Tanaka, better known under the pseudonym Sabu, was born in 1964 and originally wanted to become a musician before he eventually decided to pursue a career as an actor. Over the course of his...
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Film Review: Janji Joni (2005) by Joko Anwar
The fact that Joko Anwar was going to become a great director became obvious from the beginning, with his debut incorporating all those elements that make his cinema unique, and particularly the...
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Film Review: Proxy War (1973) by Kinji Fukasaku
After the continued success of the previous entries into the Battles Without Honor and Humanity-franchise, distributor Toei understandably called for more movies utilizing the distinct narrative and...
View ArticleShort Film Review: The Sunflower (2018) by Pandit Gaurav Gautam
Societies are supposed to be about respectful cohabitation. Still, discrimination is ingrained in most of them. Be it based on race, religion, caste or colour, humans always find a way to discriminate...
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Film Review: Shaolin Soccer (2001) by Stephen Chow
Comedy is a very tricky genre to get right. Even more so, when attempting to capture a global audience, as tastes can vary along with language. “Shaolin Soccer” broke out and became one of these...
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Interview with Anshul Chauhan and Max Golomidov: “Kontora” had to be in black...
Attention – spoiler alerts! The big winner of PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival was Anshul Chauhan’s film “Kontora” that took the Grand Prix for the best film (comes with a grant of 10 000...
View Article“Parasite” Bags 3 Golden Globes Nominations
Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite” doesn’t seem to stop its record-breaking path, after it became the first Korean film to be nominated at the Golden Globes Awards. It has been named not for one, but three...
View ArticleTV addiction – psychological problem of the millennial generation
Binge-watching TV shows and burnout are often intertwined when the issue of TV addiction of the millennial generation is discussed. Nowadays, more and more millennials are experiencing burnout which...
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The 25 Best Asian Films of 2019
29 of the contributors of Asian Movie Pulse have voted the 25 Best Films of 2019, resulting in what we consider a great selection, both regarding the order and the overall diversity, since the list...
View ArticleTrailer for New Japanese Drama “Fukushima 50”
Japanese director Setsuro Wakamatsu (“The Unbroken”, Snow on the Blades”) latest film “Fukushima 50” is set for theatrical release in March, 2020. “Fukushima 50” refers to the 50 employees who stayed...
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Film Review: The King’s Letters (2019) by Cho Chul-hyun
Lavishly produced and epic in its romanticized picture of King Sejong the Great (1397-1450) and his reform of the Korean alphabet, “The King’s Letters” is the kind of film that gets easily funded...
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Cine Fan will start the new year with the cinematic treasures of NARUSE Mikio...
The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society will kick off its 2020 Cine Fan programme with more cinematic gems in its January/February edition, including the delicately sublime dramas of NARUSE...
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Film Review: Police Tactics (1974) by Kinji Fukasaku
The last film of the series written by Kasahara, who almost became mad in his effort to record all that was happening in the yakuza underworld and come up with a script based on them, “Police Tactics”...
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Film Analysis: Stalker (1979) by Andrei Tarkovsky
“Three men can’t foul it up in one day.”“Why can’t we? Sure we can.” “Stalker”, together with “Mirror” and “Solaris”, has perhaps become something of a holy grail for film enthusiasts and cinephiles...
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Film Review: Kuntilanak 2 (2019) by Rizal Mantovani
After the success of the previous entry, prolific genre director Rizal Mantovani and star Sandrinne Michelle returned less than a year later with the rest of the adapted brothers and sisters to...
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Film Review: Sunyi (2019) by Awi Suryadi
Released in 1998 at the very beginning of the J-horror scene, Park ki-hyeong’s celebrated Korean horror effort “Whispering Corridors” is one of the finest efforts from that time period and was a...
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