Life’s Extremes: Kazuo Hara and Sachiko Kobayashi’s Shifting Documentary Practices and Trilogy of “Living Dissent”
From June 4 to July 2, 2021, Japan Society’s retrospective “Cinema as Struggle: The Films of Kazuo Hara and Sachiko Kobayashi” celebrates the 50th Anniversary...
6 Must-See Films at the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2020
It’s almost March and that means the Osaka Asian Film Festival (OAFF) is about to launch for its 2020 edition. The festival plays from March...
Enslaving Ourselves to Digital Technology: On Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s 36 and Freelance
Over the last decade, one of the most singular cinematic voices in Asian Cinema has emerged from Thailand – thirty-five-year-old filmmaker Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit. Since his...
Snake Eaters by Quentin Lee & Jericho Li
Jericho Li, an MA Communications student at Baptist University, escorts us through Hong Kong’s Sham Shui Po in this cellphone video shot with the assistance...
Life, Death and Unfulfilled Desires: Teng Congcong on Send Me to the Clouds
Teng Congcong’s bittersweet debut feature Send Me to the Clouds is the latest in a welcome wave of films by female Chinese directors which includes...
Kickstart This – The Depth of Yagen by Shigeru Okada
The Depth of Yagen, a stop-motion indie horror film by animator and author Shigeru Okada, is currently raising funds through Kickstarter. It promises to be...
The New King of Comedy (China, 2019): The Unexpected Shape-Shifting of Stephen Chow
In 2008, Stephen Chow Sing Chi retired from acting, announcing that he would focus entirely on directing and screenwriting. He then co-directed a re-interpretation of...
Asian Cinema Highlights of 2018
As another year winds down, it’s time for VCinema contributors to select their Asian cinema highlights from the past twelve months. In addition to picking...
Festival Roundup: From Busan to Tokyo
The Busan International Film Festival, which took place at the beginning of October, finally solved the problems caused by the Busan City politicians’ involvement in...
A Pinch of the 12th Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Polish cinema Muranów is one of those cosy cinemas where you can drink your coffee whilst waiting for a screening to start or afterwards when...