Today has been such a great day for news regarding Asian films. First we get word on the status of Ip Man 3, and then later in the day, via their Facebook page, the New York Asian Film Festival had three big announcements for anxiously waiting fans.
The first was the announcement of their opening night film, Vulgaria, the second was that Chung Chang-Wha would be receiving their lifetime achievement award, and the third was that Choi Min-Sik would be attending the festival! That’s right, the prisoner in Oldboy and the murderer in I Saw the Devil is coming to NY and will be showcasing his new film Nameless Gangster! If there was one reason to attend this year’s fest, he would be it.
All I can say is that I can’t wait until the festival starts. It is the craziest fest I’ve ever been too thus far and one I highly recommend to fans of Asian and genre films.
More details about each announcement can be found below which was taken straight from their page.
#1: The opening night film of NYAFF’12 is Pang Ho-cheung’s astonishingly filthy, extremely hilarious VULGARIA, a movie about making movies, shot in just 12 days, all about gangsters named Brother Tyrannosaur, sleazy lawyers, the sex film industry, and men who love donkeys a little too much. And Director Pang will attend!
#2: We’ll be giving a Lifetime Achievement Award to Chung Chang-Wha, the great Korean action director whose 1972 movie for Hong Kong’s Shaw Brothers studio, FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH, was the first international martial arts hit to break through in the West. It launched the kung-fu craze over here, and we’ll have him in the house for a screening of a gorgeous print of FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH.
#3: We are super-psyched to be bringing one of Korea’s greatest actors, Choi Min-Sik (star of OLDBOY), here as our guest and we’ll be screening his latest film, NAMELESS GANGSTER, as well as a fistful of his classics, including OLDBOY and his underseen and heartbreaking boxing film, CRYING FIST.
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