Achilles and the Tortoise (Japan, 2008)
Achilles and the Tortoise is the final part of Takeshi Kitano’s self-reflexive trilogy about the nature of the artist following Takeshi’s (2005) and Glory to...
CAAMFest 2015, March 12-22 (San Francisco, Berkeley, & Oakland, California)
The ABC Network’s new series “Fresh Off the Boat” has done the impossible. It has me actually wishing I had a TV so I could...
Love’s Whirlpool (Japan, 2014)
Adapted for the screen by director Daisuke Miura from his award-winning 2005 stage play, Love’s Whirlpool presents a revealing take on Tokyo’s sex industry and...
Say Yes (South Korea, 2001)
Kim Sung-Hong has recently directed such middling shock-horror fare as the serial killer thriller Missing (2009), and the surgery-centered horror Doctor (2012). However, in 2001, he...
Greatful Dead (Japan, 2013)
The anti-heroine of Eiji Uchida’s black comedy Greatful Dead is not your average cinematic outsider. A perpetually upbeat yet consciously isolated urbanite, Nami (Kumi Takiuchi)...
PTU (Hong Kong, 2003)
The crime genre has been a staple of Hong Kong cinema since the 1980s with both cops and criminals being the focus of these films,...