A Violent Prosecutor (South Korea, 2016) [NYAFF 2016]
Writer-director Lee Il-hyeong’s incredibly assured directorial debut A Violent Prosecutor, in the vein of Inside Men (2015, dir. Woo Min-ho), centers around the male homosocial...
The Boys Who Cried Wolf (South Korea, 2015) [NYAFF 2016]
The increasing necessity and ensuing moral consequences of role-playing in everyday life are examined in Kim Jin-hwang’s first feature The Boys Who Cried Wolf, an...
Alone (South Korea, 2015) [NYAFF 2016]
A disturbing first-person perspective of cleaning the floor opens Park Hong-min’s second feature film. One notices red spots on the floor as the reason for...
Inside Men (South Korea, 2015) [NYAFF 2016]
Gritty and intense, Inside Men mixes the formulas of the buddy cop film and the revenge drama successfully with incisive dissection of the collusions between...
The Mobfathers (Hong Kong, 2016) [NYAFF 2016]
Dispensing with the introduction of the film title until about forty minutes into it, Herman Yau’s The Mobfathers opts to plunge immediately into a bloody,...
Hentai Kamen 2: The Abnormal Crisis (Japan, 2016) [NYAFF 2016]
Superhero stories are the big thing in film and TV right now and considering the enormous box office grosses of Batman v Superman: Dawn of...
Weeds on Fire (Hong Kong, 2016) [NYAFF 2016]
For his debut feature film, Chan Chi-fat looked to a glorious but little known Hong Kong actuality in the heyday of the 1980s: the first...
Honor Thy Father (Philippines, 2015) [NYAFF 2016]
Edgar (John Lloyd Cruz) and Kaye (Meryll Soriano) are a hard-working couple trying to maintain a solid middle-class life through faith and social networking among...
Miss Hokusai (Japan, 2015) [NYAFF 2016]
The history of art is dominated by men. For much of history, women were denied educational opportunities in the arts and some those who dared...
Hamog (Haze) (Philippines, 2015) [NYAFF 2016]
Ralston G. Jover’s latest feature film Hamog (Haze), a Cinema One original production, is a labyrinthine web of experiences, both structurally and thematically speaking, even...