Tag: New York Asian Film Festival 2021

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...

In a montage stitched together by simple cuts that opens Yu Irie’s Ninja Girl, the quietness and elegance of a countryside landscape unfold in long...

Six years after his politically subversive Salute! Sun Yat-Sen (2014), acclaimed Taiwanese writer-director Yee Chih-yen returns to feature filmmaking with City of Lost Things. Surprisingly,...

Last of the Wolves is director Kazuya Shiraishi’s sequel to his well-received 2018 yakuza film, The Blood of Wolves. Although he returns to the crime...

Sound designer/recordist and composer Dukar Tserang, who has been a close musical collaborator of filmmakers Pema Tseden and Gyal Sonthar, now stands alongside his aforementioned...

For her debut feature, which took two years to shoot in challenging weather conditions in Moerdaoga National Forest of Inner Mongolia, Cao Jinling crafts an...

Tan Bee Thiam is perhaps best known for having established the Asian Film Archive in Singapore in 2005. But with his directorial debut Tiong Bahru...