Written by Patrick Hao 66/100 One of the most exciting features to be shown at this year’s New York Asian Film Festival is the free retrospective screening of New Dragon Gate Inn. The film will be shown outdoors on August … Continue reading.
Written by Patrick Hao 73/100 “It takes hundreds of years for a tree to grow. But just minutes to cut it down.” Those are words said by Linzi (Eric Wang) which serves as a thesis for Jingling Cao’s feature debut, … Continue reading.
Written by Patrick Hao 52/100 Under the Open Sky is the disappointing feature from Miwa Nishikawa attempting to explore the difficulties an ex-convict faces as he tries to integrate back into society. That ex-convict is Mikami (Koji Yakusho), a former … Continue reading.
Written by Patrick Hao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEsoGXOH1Nw Three Rounds with the Boxing Films at the New York Asian Film Festival Boxing as a metaphor for daily struggle, pain and resistance has been a cinematic tradition going all the way back to Wallace … Continue reading.
Written by Taylor Baker 55/100 We’ve grown accustomed to a certain type of spectacle propaganda film coming out of East and Southeast Asia in the last 10-15 years. Slowly the ante for such films from China has increased alongside it’s … Continue reading.
