With Japan Cuts officially underway, it’s time to visit the first film I screener for this year’s festival, Nobuhiro Doi’s dramedy, Flying Colors. Based on a true story, Flying Colors stars... Read more
You know summer is here when a swarm of Asian films are being reviewed on Movie Buzzers thanks to the New York Asian Film Festival and Japan Cuts festival being held back to back. With NYAF... Read more
Opening this years Japan Cuts 2016 is the quirky dramedy about a metal-rocker returning home to introduce his fiancé to his dysfunctional family. Eikichi (Ryuhei Matsuda) is the frontman of... Read more
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
This seems to be a great year for animal oriented animated films. While I haven’t seen Zootopia, I hear it was phenomenal, Finding Dory was terrific, and the trailer for The Secret Life of P... 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
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