Asian film, media, and culture

Finding Mr. Right (China, 2013)

One of the biggest box office hits of 2013 to date at the mainland China box office, Finding Mr. Right has been seen as a game changer of sorts in terms of audience trend as ...

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on May, 22 · in Reviews

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 ...

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on May, 15 · in Reviews

The VCinema Diaries: Café Culture in China

A common joke in the ex-pat communities of mainland China is that the most important phrase of Mandarin you need to know in order to survive relocation to the People’s Republic is, “Wǒ yào yī ...

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on Feb, 18

The Berlin File (South Korea, 2013)

Get ready for an action-packed espionage thriller in which the clandestine representatives of the two parts of Korea, the only remaining country that was divided in the post-WWII period, go at one another in the ...

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on Feb, 14

Commercial Japan: Tokyo Metro Home Door

I watch a lot more TV in Japan than I do in the States since my wife and I don’t own a TV.  The only time we watch TV is on vacation.  And on this ...

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on Feb, 12

Japan Society celebrates the Guns, Girls & Ghosts of Shintoho

Each year, the Globus Film Series at the Japan Society in New York provides an opportunity for aficionados and newcomers alike to immerse themselves in a particular area of Japanese cinema, with the season curated ...

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on Feb, 09

@vcinemashow

Jon is back on @PodcastOnFire's Japanese cinema podcast recording a GHOST IN THE SHELL episode. http://t.co/tdS4Ccri1K

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