Month: August 2021

Six years after his politically subversive Salute! Sun Yat-Sen (2014), acclaimed Taiwanese writer-director Yee Chih-yen returns to feature filmmaking with City of Lost Things. Surprisingly,...

Last of the Wolves is director Kazuya Shiraishi’s sequel to his well-received 2018 yakuza film, The Blood of Wolves. Although he returns to the crime...

Sound designer/recordist and composer Dukar Tserang, who has been a close musical collaborator of filmmakers Pema Tseden and Gyal Sonthar, now stands alongside his aforementioned...

For her debut feature, which took two years to shoot in challenging weather conditions in Moerdaoga National Forest of Inner Mongolia, Cao Jinling crafts an...

Tan Bee Thiam is perhaps best known for having established the Asian Film Archive in Singapore in 2005. But with his directorial debut Tiong Bahru...

A Leg, a dark comedy by novice Taiwanese director Chang Yao-sheng, follows a rather unlikely plotline: a husband dies an unexpected death, then his severed...

Films based on manga are ubiquitous in Japan but few have qualities that gain the traction to make it onto the radar of global audiences...

For his latest feature film, rapper and filmmaker Namewee (the stage name of Wee Meng Chee) revisits a disturbing real-life “never reported” but “never forgotten”...

Following his comedic turn in Enter the Fat Dragon (2020), martial arts star Donnie Yen gets deadly serious again to play a resolutely straight-arrow Hong...

South Korean cinema is no longer the producer of small and idiosyncratic films that have to seep through the cracks of international cinema. It hasn’t...