A Letter to Momo (Japan, 2012)
There’s a new game in town, that is, if your town is Japantown. It’s called “Youkai Watch”. And it has replaced Pokémon as the biggest craze...
Aberdeen (Hong Kong, 2014)
Continuing to explore Hong Kong life while avoiding being pigeonholed by genre, Pang Ho-cheung follows the foul-mouthed film industry satire Vulgaria (2012) with the comparatively...
Violent Cop (Japan, 1989)
Director Takeshi Kitano – famous in Japan as the comedian ‘Beat’ Takeshi – has most recently been associated with his two ultra-violent Outrage films (2010/2012)...
House (Japan, 1977)
House is a film that needs to be put into context: 1. It was made in a post-Tsuburaya Toho that wasn’t spending money to produce...
The Shaft (China, 2008)
Zhang Chi’s debut feature The Shaft is set in an impoverished small town in western China where the mining industry looms over the lives of...
See You Tomorrow, Everyone (Japan, 2013)
Yoshihiro Nakamura is known mainly for The Foreign Duck, The Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker (2007) and Fish Story (2009). His most recent internationally...