Author: John Atom

Female directors are slowly beginning to gain more prominence in the male-dominated field of South Korean Cinema. Kim Bora is one of many emerging female...

Koji Fukada made a name for himself in the 2016 Cannes Film Festival when his film, Harmonium, won the Jury Prize under the Un Certain...

A woman in her late 20s/early 30s stands half-naked in front of a passing train and begins to tell her life’s story. She talks fast,...

What is the price of romance? What is it worth to those who are selling it, and those who are buying it? That is the...

Shinichiro Ueda’s highly anticipated follow-up to One Cut of the Dead (2017) is finally here, and it looks nothing like its predecessor. The director’s latest...

One of the films featured in this years JAPAN CUTS is Kiyama Mizuki’s stunningly imaginative animated short, Bath House of Whales. Running at just over...

Film is a collaborative art form. Yet, the film industry is such that it elevates only few of its members to glory, while drowning the...

Dreams are the memories of another life – or so the saying goes, whatever that may mean. If one could identify a subject for Lei...

How much should a child be responsible for his or her crimes? Is mob justice an acceptable substitute for an inept justice system? Can there...

This year’s CAAMFest presented an aptly packaged double of shorts exploring the complex relationships of mothers and daughters in an Asian-American context. The two films...