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Film Review: The Last Executioner (2014) by Tom Waller
“Even the executioner does not have to see the body after he has done the job.” (from Chavoret Jaruboon’s memoir “The Last Executioner”) After his feature “Mindfulness and Murder” (2011), Thai director...
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Documentary Review: Mad Tiger (2015) by Michael Haertlein and Jonathan Yi
Good band documentaries often aren’t about the music or backstage antics, they focus on the struggles of the band and their usually very normal lives. “Mad Tiger” is a film about a Japanese punk band...
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Anime Review: My Hero Academia Season Two, Part Two
Following the end of the tournament, the young heroes start their first internships with real pros, realizing, more and more, the fact that in this age, being a super hero is a profession which comes...
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Documentary Review: Up Down and Sideways (2017) by Anushka Meenakshi and...
Ethnographic documentaries are amongst the most difficult to shoot, since they demand close and lengthy (time-consuming if you prefer) examination of the people of the main subject, along with...
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How to Disappear Completely (2013) By Raya Martin
Surrounded by an ominous presence and the death within her village. A young teenage girl finds herself becoming detached from the world around her. Feelings of isolation and detachment grow stronger as...
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Film Review: The Last Reel (2014) by Kulikar Sotho
Kulikar Sotho ventures herself into her first time director adventure on this emotional journey over the search of a missing film. Starring Rous Mony, Ma Rynet, Dy Saveth, Hun Sophy and Sok Sothun...
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Interview with Hsieh Chun-Yi: Rom-coms are very serious for me. To make the...
On the occasion of his film, Take Me to the Moon, screening at the 8th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival Spring Showcase, we speak with Hsieh Chun-Yi about the film, the 90’s, Chang Yu-sheng,...
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Aperture: New Asia & Pacific Film Festival Programme Announced
Launching In London On June 29; Touring The Uk In Summer/Autumn 2018 Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival is a new UK-wide film festival dedicated to screening some of the boldest, most daring,...
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Film Review: Village Rockstars (2017) by Rima Das
Set in rural Assam, where the backwaters of India can almost leave you desperately moving your entire life in a wooden boat, Dhunu (Bhanita Das) – a young girl on the brink of puberty wishes to form a...
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Film Review: Sanguivorous (2011) by Naoki Yoshimoto
For a country with such a rich visual history in their films, it would seem that another effort would’ve come along by now that tackled the so-called ‘Avant-Garde Vampire Film’ movement. Still, such is...
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Film review: Shady (2012) by Ryοhei Watanabe
Is it possible to make a film that mixes friendship themes in the style of Shunji Iwai with the intrigue and bizarre terror of Takashi Miike? The new director Ryohei Watanabe has proved that yes, you...
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Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji out on Blu-Ray September 3rd, 2018
Praised by Japanese film critics and much admired by his contemporaries Akira Kurosawa and Yasujirô Ozu, Tomu Uchida nonetheless remains a little-known in the west. His 1955 masterpiece Bloody Spear...
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Film Review: Iron Monkey (1993) by Yuen Woo-ping
If one was to seek the quintessence of the Golden Harvest martial arts film (wuxia if you prefer), one would have to look not much further than “Iron Monkey”, a film that encompasses all the elements...
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Film Review: Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers (2005) by Satoshi Miki
“As I was making a ‘kidney’ from a straw I was struck by the thought that nobody notices me.” The second film of Japanese writer and director Satoshi Miki is a “miscellany of characters” reminiscent of...
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Film Review: Uma (2018) by Srijit Mukherji
The cab runs towards the airport. Himadri takes out an old photograph of his and his ex-wife and shows it to Uma sitting on the backseat. Uma says “sorry”! Himadri bursts into tears. And the director...
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Film Review: Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (2017) by Mouly Surya
In my last trips in Indonesian cinema, I have watched an art-house biopic (Solo, Solitude), a drama (Emma), and a thriller of sorts (A Copy of My Mind). I guess it was about time to watch a Western,...
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Artists’ Choice #4 : Sushama Deshpande (actress) lists her 13 Favorite Indian...
Sushama Deshpande is a theatre director, writer and actor, who has been active in the field for more than 30 years. Her work in cinema is limited when compared with theatre, however, Deshpande gives an...
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Film Review: Venus (2017) by Eisha Marjara
During the recent years, there has been an increase on the Asian films that deal with the LGBT community, with productions like “Wolf and Wolbachia“, “Small Talk” and a number of others. Montreal-based...
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Film Review: Die Tomorrow (2017) by Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit
Thamrongrattanarit’s previous work, “Heart Attack” is one of my favorite films of the latest years, as the director managed to present the lives of the freelancers in the most analytical and realistic...
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Film Review: Fall Into the Blue (2006) By Toshiro Enomoto
Yasuko and Shizuka work for the same company and enjoy spending their evenings at a hostess club with friends. Secretly, Yasuko is not really interesting in men, and she finds herself falling for her...
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