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UFO in Her Eyes (China/Germany, 2011)
Since the late-1990s, Guo Xiaolu has been developing a fascinating, multi-disciplinary career that ranges from literary fiction to incisive documentaries to narrative features, with such novels as 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth (2008) and ...
YAK Films, Hip Hop, And Public Space in South Korea
When I finally went to South Korea in 2005 to attend the Pusan International Film Festival, (when the festival still spelled the city with a ‘P’), I was struck by the public culture. As a ...
Reincarnation (Japan, 2005)
Takashi Shimizu’s spookily effective Reincarnation arrived relatively late in the J-Horror cycle, after international audiences had already been unsettled by Ring (1998), Pulse (2001), One Missed Call (2003), and Shimizu’s theatrical instalments of the Ju-on: ...
on Apr, 11
Rurouni Kenshin (Japan, 2012)
Keishi Ohtomo’s Rurouni Kenshin opens like many historical pictures, in pitch darkness with the year and conflict telegraphed to us through white on black intertitles. It is 1868, the closing moments of the Boshin War, ...
on Apr, 09
My Dear Enemy (South Korea, 2008)
If money problems can force people apart, they can also bring them together again. At least that is the premise of Lee Yoon-ki‘s My Dear Enemy, a low-key romance that uses the collection of an ...
on Apr, 05
The Avenging Fist (Hong Kong, 2001)
Produced initially as a film based on the popular video game fighting franchise Tekken, The Avenging Fist was almost instantly slapped with a lawsuit and resurfaced with only minor leftovers to hint at its video ...
on Apr, 02
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