Month: January 2013

Hey folks.  Busy January schedules have led to us not having the time to record a new episode of The VCinema Show.  However, fear not,...

Shuichi Okita’s delightful comedy-drama The Woodsman and the Rain begins with its titular 60-year-old lumberjack Katsuhiko (Koji Yakusho) cutting down a tree in the wilderness...

Yun-hee (Ahn Jo) is a writer under pressure from her editor to pen another book.  She had some success with a semi-autobiographical novel titled Secrets...

Revenge has become so ubiquitous with Korean cinema in the last decade that it often overshadows the very films in this subgenre. Lumped together, the...

The title of Gu Su-yeon’s semi-autobiographical crime thriller Hard Romanticker invites such critical summaries as ‘hard boiled’ or ‘hardcore’, attributes that it achieves through a...

Focusing my writing on South Korean cinema when I did (around 2000), as I met other cinephiles at film festivals I would occasionally find myself...

In his landmark study of urbanisation in mainland China, Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract (Duke University Press, 2010), Yomi Braester...

*** Call for Contributors Closed – Thanks for your interest!  *** Editors John Berra (Nanjing University) and Wei Ju (Tongji University) seek suitable contributors for...

What should I talk about when writing about events that happened over this passing year? This is something that I have contemplated so much that...

My contribution to VCinema’s 2012 Year in Review is to pose a question that I can’t answer definitively.  Was 2012 South Korea’s multicultural moment? Before...