Month: May 2012

The reaction by filmmakers to the devastation caused by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that occurred on March 11 has been an example of rapid...

A fog enshrouded forest, two boys lost in the woods, and a mother on the verge of an emotional breakdown are all familiar ingredients in...

Majnu Ka Tila (Tibetan colony). Delhi, India...

Tokyo, circa 1990. Kubota, part-time baker, and young third member of a group of Tokyo roomies lives the idyllic life firmly poised in between childhood...

One of my favorite Korean films is Save The Green Planet (2003). More than any other, it blithely disregards generic compatibility and instead splices every...

Old style trams, Toden-Arakawa line in Tokyo...

I’m a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa and his films; when I found out that this site had just recently posted its first Kurosawa film...

Remember back in 2011, during episodes 26 and 30, when we promised to round off our Taiwanese New Wave Cinema series with a Tsai Ming-Liang...

Saigon Central Post Office. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam...

The film might not change, but watching a single daily screening of Hong Sangsoo’s The Day He Arrives for seven days at the San Francisco...