Month: April 2012

Must see places in Tokyo: Golden-Gai...

Stephen Maing’s timely and fascinating documentary High Tech, Low Life, examines the subject of journalism and internet censorship in China through the eyes and experiences...

I miss attending the Udine Far East Film Festival, particularly because it was my primary opportunity to catch popular East Asian Cinema. Most film festivals...

A heady combination of political discontent, tortured relationships and shattered idealism, Lou Ye’s fiercely compelling Summer Palace is one of the landmark films of China’s...

To expect much from a film titled Mr. Wacky would be an exercise in futility. In fact, the handful of reviews of this film that...

Written and directed by Welshman Gareth Evans, The Raid: Redemption (although simply titled The Raid in the rest of the world) is an action flick...

On my first and, so far, sole visit to Japan, I had commented to my wife on how big the crows were.  My wife dismissed...

How does one make a documentary about a cinema that no longer exists in its material form? We have lost so much cinema of our...

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One day, when I lived in Japan, I happened to visit my neighborhood Toys”R”Us (it being Japan, however, the sign said, トイザらス). After marveling that...