Women Who Flirt (China, 2014)
Hong Kong maverick Pang Ho-cheung’s relationship with mainland China edges closer to a long-term commitment with Women Who Flirt, a slight romantic-comedy which largely squanders...
Best of Asian Cinema in 2014
As the year draws to a close, the time has come for VCinema contributors to take a look back at 2014 and select their Asian...
People Mountain People Sea (China/Hong Kong, 2011)
People Mountain People Sea is a film that has almost vanished without a trace from the recent history of Chinese cinema, a fate that has...
Big Tits Zombie (Japan, 2010)
Even the most die-hard cult film fans are likely to groan at the title of Takao Nakano’s horror-comedy (known in its home territory as Big...
Battle Royale (Japan, 2000)
A black comedy; a horror film; an action-thriller; inspiration for The Hunger Games novels and films (2012–onwards); yet Battle Royale is perhaps most known in...
Tales from the Dark 1 (Hong Kong, 2013)
At once a throwback to the heyday of 1980s Hong Kong horror and a concentrated effort to sell today’s audience on a floundering local genre,...
Breakup Buddies (China, 2014)
2014 has proved to be the year that the cinema of mainland China finally hit the road with The Continent and Breakup Buddies offering populist...