Month: August 2021

School Radio to Major Tom was written and directed by Takuya Chisaka as a third-year training assignment at Nihon University and went on to win...

Mayu Nakamura’s film Among Four of Us may only last 20 minutes but it makes a deep impact. A conversation piece involving three friends reuniting...

The Covid-19 pandemic has seen a number of movies using the restrictions of lockdown situations to try new spins on old stories with social media...

The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF), presented annually by Visual Communications (VC), has announced the first set of films that will screen as...

All U Need is Love may have been rightfully marketed as a sublime exercise in fan service for Hong Kong cinema aficionados, but it proves...

Malaysian filmmaker Tan Chui Mui’s comeback after a decade, Barbarian Invasion brings about considerable departure from her 2010 feature, Year Without a Summer. As a...

Filmed entirely in South Korea, Yuya Ishii’s The Asian Angel charts the unanticipated coming together of two emotionally broken families, one Korean and the other...

Being the acting titan that he is, anytime Patrick Tse shows up on screen is a win for the cinematic medium. Despite being a defining...

Film is a collaborative art form, and when it comes to uniquely individual achievements, they are few and far between. Even the most singular auteurs...

In a montage stitched together by simple cuts that opens Yu Irie’s Ninja Girl, the quietness and elegance of a countryside landscape unfold in long...