Emergency Declaration (South Korea, 2022)
Emergency Declaration is an action-thriller dealing with terrorism and contagion in a post-Covid world. It stars Song Kang-ho of Parasite (2019) and Lee Byung-hun of Squid Game (2021), arguably two...
Call for Papers – Asian Popular Culture and the Gothic
Article proposals are welcome for an upcoming collection on Asian Popular Culture and the Gothic, edited by Li-hsin Hsu, Deimantas Valančiūnas and Katarzyna Ancuta. The collection...
South Korean Cinema Seminar: Preservation, Distribution and Education, September 1
This one day seminar helps educators teach students about Korean Cinema. In person and online, free entry & film screening. The global success of South...
Interview with Mai Nakanishi, Director of Swallow
Mai Nakanishi is a long-time horror film enthusiast. After founding and directing the Scream Queen FilmFest Tokyo and working on a wide variety of films in various...
Swallow (Taiwan/Japan, 2021)
One woman’s greedy pursuit of movie stardom leads to a sticky end in Swallow, a 22-minute short from Mai Nakanishi. Winner of a Special Mention at...
Karmalink (Cambodia, 2021)
Karmalink attempts to bridge science fiction speculation and religious beliefs. It presents the rather weird idea that there will be a time when science will be...
Interview with Kahori Higashi, Director of Melting Sounds [OAFF 2022]
Deceptively simple but quite profound, Melting Sounds is a moving and quietly funny first feature film from freelance designer-turned-director Kahori Higashi. In her work, she ruminates on...
Melting Sounds (Japan, 2021) [OAFF 2022]
Melting Sounds is part of the latest wave of films associated with MOOSIC LAB, a competition wherein the titles submitted showcase up-and-coming directors who have created...
Paid in Blood (South Korea, 2021)
Paid in Blood, the feature debut of director and screenwriter Yoon Young-bin, is a crime drama that revolves around the battle for a new casino and...
Er Dong (China, 2008)
Fatherless urban youth growing up in China’s seismic 20th century economic transformation is a common theme for many Sixth-Generation directors who started making films in the...