Tharlo (China, 2015)
‘I know who I am, isn’t that enough?’ Tharlo (Shide Nyima) asks police chief Dorje at one point during the long conversation that opens Pema...
Three Sisters (China, 2012)
The documentary films of Wang Bing present a veritable mosaic of peripheral, alienated perspectives across the various regions of China, from the northeast and northwest...
Female Directors (China, 2012)
Yang Mingming’s multi-faceted mockumentary Female Directors starts with some playful taboo breaking as twenty-something art school graduates Ah-ming (Mingming) and Yueyue (Guo Yue) fake orgasms for...
Egg and Stone (China, 2012)
A young teenage girl sits on her bed, her hand reaching into her underpants. There’s a shiny key looped around her neck, a telltale sign...
‘Til Madness Do Us Part (China, 2013)
One can’t talk about Wang Bing’s documentary ‘Til Madness Do Us Part without first mentioning its length. Being nearly four hours long, Wang’s documentary on a...
Godzilla Resurgence (Japan, 2016)
It is not an easy task to be optimistic and think of another local (in case of the Japanese market) follow-up for Godzilla after the...
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Asian Cinema on Singapore Cinema
In the last twenty years or so, Singapore cinema has grown to make its presence felt across many international film festivals. This recent revival may...
Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare (Japan, 2016)
It’s difficult to review some films based solely on their individual merits. And when you consider the fact that a film like Detective Conan: The...