Episode 22: Cure
Party People! You have come to the right place because in this episode, we are celebrating our first anniversary as a podcast. This is the...
Uniform (China, 2003)
My current research project as Lecturer in Film Studies at Nanjing University is a study of the cinema of Lou Ye, the Sixth Generation Chinese...
Sengoku Yaro (1963)
Kihachi Okamoto (1924-2005) was a Japanese filmmaker who spent an entire career demolishing the widely accepted viewpoint that there was any honor in violence. Although...
So Close to Paradise (China, 1998)
My current research project as Lecturer in Film Studies at Nanjing University is a study of the cinema of Lou Ye, the Sixth Generation Chinese...
Outrage (Japan, 2010)
Calling your comeback yakuza film Outrage, made after a widely panned trilogy of “difficult” (read: terrible) comedies, is pretty ballsy. It’s like handing a pre-written...
Episode 21: After Life
On the eve of our podcast’s first anniversary, a ripe time for reflection, we review Hirokazu Koreeda’s After Life (1999), a film that ruminates on...
Oppai Volleyball (Japan, 2009)
The lustful desires of adolescent boys are a comic trope that is susceptible to the law of diminishing returns. What may start out as clever...
VCinema Interviewed by the San Francisco Film Society
Just in time for the first anniversary of the podcast (more on that later), we got a nice surprise: VCinema is featured this week in...
My Wife is a Gangster 3 (South Korea, 2006)
In many respects, My Wife is a Gangster 3 delivers all the mediocrity that one would expect from a second sequel that has been produced...
Episode 20: Fulltime Killer
Our review of Johnnie To’s 2001 actioneer Fulltime Killer in this episode gets so meta that you’ll think you’re reading it off the legs of...