Asian film, media, and culture

Finding Mr. Right (China, 2013)

One of the biggest box office hits of 2013 to date at the mainland China box office, Finding Mr. Right has been seen as a game changer of sorts in terms of audience trend as ...

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on May, 22 · in Reviews

UFO in Her Eyes (China/Germany, 2011)

Since the late-1990s, Guo Xiaolu has been developing a fascinating, multi-disciplinary career that ranges from literary fiction to incisive documentaries to narrative features, with such novels as 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth (2008) and ...

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on May, 15 · in Reviews

YAK Films, Hip Hop, And Public Space in South Korea

When I finally went to South Korea in 2005 to attend the Pusan International Film Festival, (when the festival still spelled the city with a ‘P’), I was struck by the public culture.  As a ...

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on May, 10

The Defector: Escape from North Korea Closes Sausalito Film Festival on May 19th

The Sausalito Film Festival has announced its closing film on Sunday May 19th will be the documentary The Defector: Escape from North Korea. Directed by Korean-Canadian Ann Shin, the documentary follows a North Korean defector ...

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on May, 07

Vampire (Canada/Japan, 2011)

Since the early 2000s, a number of Japanese directors have attempted to make the transition to English-language filmmaking, with Hideo Nakata, Ryuhei Kitamura, Takeshi Kitano and Takashi Shimizu transplanting their specialist genre expertise with varying ...

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on Apr, 29

56th San Francisco International Film Festival Preview – Asian Cinema

The cornucopia of cinematic delight that is the San Francisco International Film Festival is here again. Bouncing back and forth from Berkeley to San Francisco from April 25-May 9, the oldest continuously running film festival ...

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on Apr, 22

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Jon is back on @PodcastOnFire's Japanese cinema podcast recording a GHOST IN THE SHELL episode. http://t.co/tdS4Ccri1K

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