‘A Taxi Driver’: Film Review
In spring 1980, a South Korean cabbie awakens to the brutalities of his country’s government in ‘A Taxi Driver,’ a drama based on actual events. read more Source link
Category Archives: Asian Movie Reviews
'The Song of Scorpions': Film Review | Locarno 2017
Golshifteh Farahani and Irrfan Khan play a “scorpion singer” and camel peddler, respectively, in Anup Singh’s ‘The Song of Scorpions,’ a lush, Hindi-language drama. read...
'To Kill a Watermelon' ('Sha Gua'): Film Review
Chinese filmmaker Gao Zehao’s satire ‘To Kill a Watermelon,’ about a farmer’s growing awareness of the injustice around him, will bow at the Montreal World Film Festival after...
'Shaman' ('Xiao Gua Fu Cheng Xian Ji'): Film Revie...
Cai Chengjie’s supernatural satire ‘Shaman’ won the best narrative feature and best director prizes at China’s FIRST International Film Festival. read more Source link
'China's Van Goghs' ('Zhong Guo Fan Gao'): Fi...
In ‘China’s Van Goghs,’ Chinese filmmakers Yu Haibo and Kiki Tianqi Yu probe the angst of a peasant-turned-painter who produces replicas of Van Gogh masterpieces. read more Source l...
'The Founding of an Army' ('Jian Jun Da Ye'): Film...
Hong Kong helmer Andrew Lau (‘Infernal Affairs’) turns ‘The Founding of an Army’ from a state-backed celebration of the Chinese military into a genre-infused blockbuster. read...
'A Loner' ('Da Xue Dong Zhi'): Film Review | Shang...
More than five decades after her stellar turn as a model soldier in ‘The Red Detachment of Women,’ Chinese actress Zhu Xijuan returns in ‘A Loner,’ Xing Xiao’s film abou...
'Suffering of Ninko' ('Ninkô no junan'): Film Revi...
A Japanese monk has a problem most men would envy in Norihiro Niwatsukino’s folk tale, ‘Suffering of Ninko.’ read more Source link
'Bad Genius' ('Chalat Kem Kong'): Film Review
Nattawut Poonpiriya’s caper, about a ring of teenage exam scammers, opens the New York Asian Film Festival after scoring high at the Thai box office in May. read more Source link
'The Mole Song — Hong Kong Capriccio': Film Review | Shangha...
Director Takashi Miike reprises the breathless craziness of his 2013 cops-and-yakuza hit in a sequel with even more action, again starring the irrepressible Toma Ikuta. read more Source link