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 ...
Tag: New York Asian Film Festival 2013
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 ...
Reviews
Japan Cuts Review: The Warped Forest
When I explained to a friend that I had just seen a film that featured trees that are actually women with skin colored “branches” ...
Reviews
Japan Cuts Review: Rurouni Kenshin
I have all 28 volumes of the Rurouni Kenshin manga. When I hear the first few notes of “Freckles,” I am suddenly returned ...
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 ...
NYAFF Review: Secretly Greatly
Before the NYAFF screening of Secretly Greatly, director Jang Cheol-Soo (the man behind the oft-mentioned-by-me Bedevilled), came out and said a few words. ...
Reviews
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: The Complex
Director Hideo Nakata is best known for 1998’s Ringu (The Ring), the film that kicked off a wave of international interest in J-horror at ...
Flixist Discusses Review: Double Xposure
Whenever News Editor Hubert Vigilla and I see a film together, we follow it up with a discussion about what we just saw, ...
Features
Interview: Lee Won-Suk (How to Use Guys with Secret Tips)
The best film I saw at this year’s New York Asian Film Festival (our recap of which will be up late next week) ...