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Kaizo Hayashi’s 1986 film, To Sleep So as to Dream, re-emerged like a dimly remembered fantasy onto cinema screens last year after receiving a crowd-funded...

Kosuke Nakahama’s feature directing debut B|B is a short, strange, and utterly vivid concoction, one that rockets along for 77 minutes with a pace akin...

With a mission to marry and unleash the creative talents of filmmakers and musicians, MOOSIC LAB has quickly established itself as one of Japan’s foremost...

Sword fights and time-travel with a pinch cliché teenage love make up Soushi Matsumoto’s latest feature, It’s a Summer Film! A traditional youth romance with...

The opening scene of writer-director Daihachi Yoshida’s latest feature, Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction, is a masterclass in crafting a minimalist act and ratcheting up...

The Covid-19 pandemic has seen a number of movies using the restrictions of lockdown situations to try new spins on old stories with social media...

All U Need is Love may have been rightfully marketed as a sublime exercise in fan service for Hong Kong cinema aficionados, but it proves...

Malaysian filmmaker Tan Chui Mui’s comeback after a decade, Barbarian Invasion brings about considerable departure from her 2010 feature, Year Without a Summer. As a...

Filmed entirely in South Korea, Yuya Ishii’s The Asian Angel charts the unanticipated coming together of two emotionally broken families, one Korean and the other...

Being the acting titan that he is, anytime Patrick Tse shows up on screen is a win for the cinematic medium. Despite being a defining...