Japan Cuts Capsule Review: Strayer’s Chronicle
It’s hard to make a rip-off of X-Men without hundreds of millions of dollars to back up the production. With a relatively minimal ...
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Japan Cuts Capsule Review: Pieta in the Toilet
Pieta in The Toilet is done a disservice by its name. From the country that brought us Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead, ...
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NYAFF Capsule Review: Nowhere Girl
New York Asian Film Festival co-programmer Samuel Jamier has a tendency to describe films as “interesting,” and he will sometimes say the word ...
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NYAFF Capsule Review: Chasuke’s Journey
Chasuke’s Journey is an indictment of dramatic shortcuts in writing. The head tea server in heaven works among the screenwriters who decide the ...
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Japan Cuts Capsule Review: I Alone
I Alone is a film about a lot of things. It’s about political corruption and kidnapping, sure, but it’s also about responsibility and staying ...
NYAFF Capsule Review: Kabukicho Love Hotel
When director Ryuichi Hiroki came out to introduce Kabukicho Love Hotel, he said something to the effect of, “Please stay through the credits. ...
Trailers
Goku has blue hair in newest Dragonball Z: Resurrection of F Trailer
With a new Dragonball TV series taking up after the events of this film, I’m pretty pumped for Dragonball Z: Resurrection of F. ...
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NYAFF Review: Tokyo Tribe
My favorite film to play at last year’s New York Asian Film Festival was Sion Sono’s cinematic love-letter/masterpiece Why Don’t You Play in ...
2015 Japan Cuts Film Festival lineup unveiled
One of the best parts about being an Asian film lover in New York is the late-June-through-mid-July run of Asian-centric festivals. The second ...
Death Note film gets kickass director
If you’re not aware the American adaptation of Death Note, a manga about a kid finding a book that magically kills people when ...
First trailer for Mamoru Hosoda’s next anime film, The Boy and The Beast
Mamaro Hosoda’s films are always triumphs of animation. Known for Wolf Children, Summer Wars, and even The Digimon Movie, his films have a ...
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First trailer for Takashi Miike’s Yakuza Apocalypse
Yakuza, vampires, Takashi Miike and Yayan Ruhian from The Raid and Raid 2? You’re sold, I know, but there’s also a really weird ...