Looking at Keeper of Darkness on paper, you’d be thrown off by how much fun this film really is. You read the premise, you see the style and you watch the opening few minutes and you’re sett... Read more
The closing night film for this year’s NYAFF is Adam Tsuei’s dark comedy The Tenants Downstairs. This new Taiwanese feature follows a Landlord (Simon Yam) who runs an apartment building full... Read more
Crime and comedy are at the forefront here in this South Korean caper which brings inspired elements from Hollywood flicks such as Shawshank Redemption and Ocean’s Eleven. Byun Jae-Wook (Hwa... Read more
With a vague opening, an array of super long one-shots, and a plot that somehow both impresses and frustrates, Alone delivers a miss-matched thriller that will divide audiences. After the om... Read more
One of the films I was most excited to see at this year’s NYAFF was Woo Min-ho’s crime thriller, Inside Men. Starring Lee Byung-hun (GI Joe), Jo Seung-woo, Beak Yoon-sik, and Lee Kyoung-you... Read more
Time is of great importance in this Chinese crime drama, as actor Ruofu Wu gets an up close look at an experience that could have proven fatal over a decade ago. Eyes usually roll when you s... Read more
Stephen Chow is one of a handful of directors from Hong Kong whose films I will watch without fail. The guy has a great handle on genuine slapstick humor and is one of the few who is able t... Read more
The 2016 NYAFF is here and the first film that I had an opportunity to view was writer/director Kim Jin-hwang’s The Boys Who Cried Wolf. This South Korean almost noir/thriller is a mixed ba... Read more
Yesterday, the NYAFF hosted the world premiere of Twisted Justice, the opening night film for the festival’s 15th anniversary. Hailing from Japan, this crime epic inspired by the biggest sc... Read more
IT’S BACK! That’s right, my favorite festival, the New York Asian Film Festival is returning this year at the end of June for its 15th anniversary. This week, the festival annou... Read more
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