What’s in the Darkness (China, 2015) [NYAFF 2016]
First-time director Wang Yichun’s take on the small-town police procedural is one that is tender, subtle, and full of surprising levity. While it bears the...
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Japan, 1989) [NYAFF 2016]
Written and directed by Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a bizarre cyberpunk body horror classic. Filmed entirely in black and white and on...
The Laundryman (Taiwan, 2015) [NYAFF 2016]
Two professions that have been mined by genre cinema to the point of near-redundancy – the assassin and the medium – get a welcome creative...
Apocalypse Child (Philippines, 2015) [NYAFF 2016]
Directed and co-written by Mario Cornejo (along with Monster Jimenez), Apocalypse Child is a character-driven drama that at its core is about the relationship between...
The Priests (South Korea, 2015) [NYAFF 2016]
Is anyone up for another exorcism movie? For those who have been to cinematic Hell and back with just a few of Hollywood’s underwhelming attempts to...
Twisted Justice (Japan, 2016) [NYAFF 2016]
The opening film of this year’s New York Asian Film Festival has two titles: Twisted Justice is the international one while the Japanese title literally translates...
Cart (South Korea, 2014) [NYAFF 2015]
Cart is the second feature-length film from female director Boo Ji-young following Sisters on the Road (2008). It’s a powerful drama about a labor struggle...
New York Asian Film Festival 2015
It’s getting to be that time of year again when Asian film fans in and around New York City start drooling in anticipation of two...
Aberdeen (Hong Kong, 2014)
Continuing to explore Hong Kong life while avoiding being pigeonholed by genre, Pang Ho-cheung follows the foul-mouthed film industry satire Vulgaria (2012) with the comparatively...
Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits (South Korea, 2013) [NYAFF 2014]
The Korean word “manshin” is a respectful term for shaman, and Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirit concerns Manshin Kim Keum-hwa, who in 1985 became the first...