Vampire (Canada/Japan, 2011)
Since the early 2000s, a number of Japanese directors have attempted to make the transition to English-language filmmaking, with Hideo Nakata, Ryuhei Kitamura, Takeshi Kitano...
56th San Francisco International Film Festival Preview – Asian Cinema
The cornucopia of cinematic delight that is the San Francisco International Film Festival is here again. Bouncing back and forth from Berkeley to San Francisco...
KL Noir: Red (2013)
Intended as the first of four volumes about the underbelly of Kuala Lumpur, the seedily evocative KL NOIR: RED is an enticing anthology consisting of...
Reincarnation (Japan, 2005)
Takashi Shimizu’s spookily effective Reincarnation arrived relatively late in the J-Horror cycle, after international audiences had already been unsettled by Ring (1998), Pulse (2001), One...
Rurouni Kenshin (Japan, 2012)
Keishi Ohtomo’s Rurouni Kenshin opens like many historical pictures, in pitch darkness with the year and conflict telegraphed to us through white on black intertitles....
My Dear Enemy (South Korea, 2008)
If money problems can force people apart, they can also bring them together again. At least that is the premise of Lee Yoon-ki‘s My Dear...
The Avenging Fist (Hong Kong, 2001)
Produced initially as a film based on the popular video game fighting franchise Tekken, The Avenging Fist was almost instantly slapped with a lawsuit and...
Pen-ek Ratanaruang Retrospective at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco 4/4-4/21
A sign that you are a cinephile is the giddiness experienced when awaiting director retrospectives coming to your town. Such retrospectives allow you to familiarize...