Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore (Germany/Philippines, 2014)
Existing somewhere between gonzo exploitation and the type of visual art project that plays on loop as a video installation, Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between...
The Ninja War of Torakage (Japan, 2014) [JFF2015AU]
It has been a while since I have seen a new film by Yoshihiro Nishimura. Ever since the entertainingly excessive Helldriver (2010), he’s been off...
Tag (Japan, 2015) [JFF2015AU]
Tag, you’re it! We have another Sion Sono film to review and this one sees him venturing into the teen survival genre for the first...
Interview with Liu Xiaoran
The diverse cross-section of filmmakers that constitutes China’s documentary sector encompasses a range of backgrounds and motivations – some have received training through academic or industry...
The Assassin (Taiwan, 2015)
The Assassin has been a long time coming. It was in gestation for 25 years, and in various stages of production for a further five,...
Call for Papers: East Asian Journal of Popular Culture (Special Issue on Taiwaneseness in Contemporary Popular Culture)
The end of the martial law ushered in an intensified process of “Taiwanization” in many social and cultural fields, and Taiwanese identity has arguably become...
Mountains May Depart (China, 2015)
It’s unlikely that Jia Zhangke will ever make a totally straight genre movie, but he has nonetheless been drawn to populist, even pulpy, narratives of...