EASTERN BANDITS is the heroic story of rebels with a fortune to gain, and everything to lose. Leader Fang Youwang (Huang Xiaoming), with his compatriots Kuei, San Pao, and Lady Dagger... Read more
Last year, both Tom and I had a chance to screen Shuichi Okita’s warm Japanese dramedy The Woodsman & the Rain, a film we both really enjoyed and appreciated, so when I saw that he had a... Read more
Gareth Evans’ Indonesian action film The Raid took the action and foreign film world by storm when it was released in the states two years ago. It’s one of the first films I recommend to gu... Read more
It is assured that you will be miserable watching this film; which is not to say that it lacks artistic value, just that it is entirely joyless. Directed by Rithy Pahn, a French studied and... Read more
It’s been a long time since Stephen Chow has released a feature film, six years since his last one hit the states and I haven’t even seen that yet. As a fan of Chow’s slapstick martial arts... Read more
Donnie Yen fans, the wait for another Yen actioner is over because in a week Clarence Fok Yiu-leung’s Special ID is hitting theaters here in the states. In Special ID, Donnie Yen plays a lo... Read more
Directed by Song Hae-Sung, the South Korean film Boomerang Family follows a dysfunctional family forced to live in close quarters once again, this time as adults. In the beginning of the fi... Read more
Following up his fantastical and adventurous mystery film Detective Dee: Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Tsui Hark returns to the same character with a prequel, Young Detective Dee: Rise of th... Read more
I was a big fan of Takeshi Kitano’s blood soaked yakuza film Outrage and I was happy to hear that he wanted to make a sequel, possibly even turn Outrage into a trilogy. While Japan got to s... Read more
Directed by Seung-wan Ryoo, The Berlin File opens with an illegal arms deal that goes horribly wrong when a North Korean “ghost” agent, Pyo Jong-seong (Ha Jung-woo), arrives to help finalize... Read more
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