Author: John Atom

Should you want to become an antique specialist for the Plum Blossom Five organization, you must be prepared to face dramatic double crossings, fist fights...

Sword fights and time-travel with a pinch cliché teenage love make up Soushi Matsumoto’s latest feature, It’s a Summer Film! A traditional youth romance with...

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...

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...

Two women at odds with each other find themselves as impromptu detectives investigating the mystery behind the deaths of their grandfathers. That is the premise...

After testing the waters with a few shorts, Korean-American director David Boo is coming to the Center for Asian American Media festival (CAAMFest) with his...

Mental illness has always been a difficult subject to handle on the silver screen. Sadly, many films of the past have abused it by using...

Post-war Japanese urban life was filled with chaos, confusion, and forays into a new kind of life unfamiliar to a war-torn nation. Izuru Narashima’s latest...

They say, be careful what you wish for, especially when what you wish is someone else’s death. You might just get it, and that’s not...

Hope is about to take her first trip to China since she was an infant. She’s stunned by how little she remembers the place, and...