Japan Cuts Review: Fly With the Gold
I don’t watch a whole lot of heist movies. It’s not that I don’t like them (I do), just that they don’t usually ...
Tag: Foreign
NYAFF and Japan Cuts 2013 Flixist Awards and Recap
So here we are, the culmination of the past month of our Asian obsession. We did thirty reviews, three interviews, and a whole ...
Audience votes Hentai Kamen as best film of NYAFF 2013
At the beginning of every screening at the New York Asian Film Festival, the good folks at Subway Cinema handed out little slips ...
Trailers
Promo/trailer for Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises
We shared a brief teaser of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu) a few weeks ago, but now we have a gorgeous ...
Features
NYAFF Non-Review: Sion Sono’s Bad Film is a masterpiece
Sion Sono’s Bad Film is truly a movie that should not exist. Shot in the mid 90s on Hi8 video, the film ran ...
Japan Cuts Review: I’M FLASH!
At last year’s New York Asian Film Festival and Japan Cuts, I saw two films by Japanese director Toshiaki Toyoda: Monsters Club and ...
Reviews
Japan Cuts Review: The Floating Castle
There’s inherent drama in stories about impossible odds, and some of the better one involve samurais in Feudal Japan. In Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, ...
Trailers
Epic full trailer for the Japanese remake of Unforgiven
A full trailer has arrived for Yurusarezaru mono, the Japanese remake of Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven starring Ken Watanabe and directed by Sang-il Lee. ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: Very Ordinary Couple
When most non-Koreans think of Korean films, they think of deeply disturbed violence and bleak, depressing dramas (I know I used to). What ...
Features
After the Credits: The Korean Rom-Coms of NYAFF 2013
I very seriously considered doing a dual review of How to Use Guys with Secret Tips and Very Ordinary Couple. I’ve only ever written ...
Japan Cuts Review: Hentai Kamen: Forbidden Super Hero
Hentai Kamen is a superhero movie about a guy who becomes an unstoppable force for perverse goodness whenever he wears a woman’s panties ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: Lesson of the Evil
Takashi Miike, who makes at least a dozen films a year, has been off making Samurai films and videogame adaptations instead of the blood-drenched ...