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Code of the Assassins (青面修罗, Daniel Lee Yan-Kong, 2022)
A young man is swept into intrigue while a member of a secretive guild of assassins who kill for peace in Daniel Lee’s steampunk fantasy wuxia.
Ping Pong: The Triumph (中国乒乓之绝地反击, Deng Chao & Yu Baimei, 2023)
A changing China tries to recapture its sense of possibility by regaining its reputation as a ping pong powerhouse in Deng Chao & Yu Baimei’s rousing table tennis…
Is This Heaven? (天国か、ここ？, Shinji Imaoka, 2023)
A middle-aged couple ponder loss and regret on a surreal odyssey into the afterlife , or something like it at least, in Shinji Imaoka’s cheerfully absurdist dramedy
Ajoomma (아줌마, He Shuming, 2022)
A middle-aged Singaporean woman begins to rediscover her sense of self after making an unexpected solo trip to Korea in He Shuming’s heartwarming dramedy.
A Holy Family (神人之家, Elvis Lu, 2022)
Documentarian Elvis Lu (The Shepherds) turns the camera on his own devoutly religious Taoist family on returning home after many years away.
When Morning Comes, I Feel Empty (朝がくるとむなしくなる, Yuho Ishibashi, 2022)
A young woman wrestles with a sense of failure and inadequacy after leaving the corporate world in Yuho Ishibashi’s zeitgeisty indie drama.
Jiseok (지석, Kim Young-jo, 2022)
Kim Young-jo’s poignant documentary pays tribute to a much missed figure while pointing fingers at the iniquities of the Park Guen-hye era.
The Dream Songs (너와 나, Cho Hyun-chul, 2022)
Teenage friends wrestle with a sense of mortality, frustrated longing, and future anxiety in the etherial feature debut from actor Cho Hyun-chul.
If We Burn (血在燒, James Leong & Lynn Lee, 2023)
James Leong & Lynn Lee’s urgent documentary explores the effects of the protests on contemporary Hong Kong amid rising police violence and mounting despair.
R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity (Mohanad Yaqubi, 2022)
The occupation had ended in 1952, but America’s influence on Japanese society continued in other ways not least among them defence. 1960 saw the biggest protest movement Japan…
Queer East Film Festival Reveals Full 2023 Programme
In cinemas across London 18th to 30th April.
People Who Talk to Plushies Are Kind (ぬいぐるみとしゃべる人はやさしい, Yurina Kaneko, 2023)
A collection of sensitive uni students pour out their worries to cuddly toys to avoid burdening others with their fears in Yurina Kaneko’s charmingly empathetic drama.
A Man (ある男, Kei Ishikawa, 2022)
A lawyer finds himself questioning his own identity while searching for that of a man who’d been living under an assumed name in Kei Ishikawa’s existential mystery.
BFI Flare Confirms Complete Programme for 2023
At BFI Southbank 15th to 26th March
Huahua’s Dazzling World and its Myriad Temptations (花花世界, Daphne Xu, 2022)
Xu’s largely observational doc follows an unlikely streaming star as she overcomes her sense of futility through boundless optimism.
Like & Share (Gina S. Noer, 2022)
Two young women seeking escape from a repressive social culture find themselves betrayed by the hypocrisies of the online society in an infinitely empathetic drama from Two Blue…
Cafune (カフネ, Haruki Kinemura, 2023)
A pair of teenagers with differing priorities struggle to deal with the discovery of an unplanned pregnancy in Haruki Kinemura’s evenhanded indie drama.
Museum of the Moving Image Announces Complete Lineup for First Look 2023
At the Museum of the Moving Image, New York March 15 to 19.
Where the Wind Blows (風再起時, Philip Yung, 2022)
Colonialism breeds corruption in Philip Yung’s achingly nostalgic evocation of another Hong Kong.
Japan Academy Film Prize Announces Winners for 46th Edition
The Japan Academy Film Prize, Japan’s equivalent of the Oscars awarded by the Nippon Academy-Sho Association of industry professionals, has announced the winners for its 46th edition which honours …
The Sunny Side of the Street (白日青春, Lau Kok-rui, 2022)
An embittered taxi driver is forced to reflect on his prejudices and relationships after getting into a vendetta with a refugee in Lau Kok-rui’s melancholy drama.
Punk Samurai (パンク侍、斬られて候, Gakuryu Ishii, 2018)
The arrival of a chaotic ronin spreading tales of a weird cult results in a battle between “monkeys and idiots” in Gakuryu Ishii’s irreverent jidaigeki comedy.
Daruma (極道系Vチューバー達磨, Daiki Matsumoto, 2022)
A recently released yakuza finds unexpected fame as a VTuber but is soon pulled back into underworld intrigue in Daiki Matsumoto’s warmhearted drama.
Road Warriors (あやめ笠 喧嘩街道, Tai Kato, 1960)
A penniless wander is caught up in intrigue after encountering a woman travelling alone for the purposes of revenge in Tai Kato’s Toei chanbara.
All About Ah-Long (阿郎的故事, Johnnie To, 1989)
A single father’s life is upended when his son’s birth mother returns from America in Johnnie To’s heartrending male melodrama.
Osaka Asian Film Festival 2023 Announces Complete Lineup
In Osaka 10th to 19th March.
Long Goodbye (さようなら, Yuuji Nomura, 2022)
A collection of dejected factory workers plot escape from small-town ennui by robbing their tax evading boss in Yuuji Nomura’s adaptation of his stage play.
Japan Organized Crime Boss (日本暴力団 組長, Kinji Fukasaku, 1969)
A recently released yakuza emerges into a changed Japan in Kinji Fukasaku’s proto-jitsuroku gangster picture.
Electric Dragon 80000v (エレクトリック·ドラゴン 80000V, Sogo Ishii, 2001)
A supercharged free spirit clashes with an electric Buddha man at war with himself in Sogo Ishii’s cyberpunk fever dream.
Anemone: A Fairy Tale for No Kids (아네모네, Jung Ha-yong, 2021)
A winning lottery ticket that may or may not have been bought exposes the cracks in an already unhappy family in Jung Ha-yong’s extremely dark comedy.
Rainbow Over the Pacific (夜明けの二人, Yoshitaro Nomura, 1968)
An unserious man begins to grow up while chasing love in Hawaii in a cheerful if ultimately downbeat musical celebration of the centenary of Japanese migration to Hawaii.
Asian Pop-Up Cinema Returns for Season 16!
In cinemas across Chicago March 18 to April 16.
Catharsis After the End (#ピリオド打ったらカタルシス, Crazy Joe, 2022)
A pair of video streamers find themselves sinking to depths of depravity in a quest for online approval in Crazy Joe’s darkly humorous exploration of the ills of…
Doing Time (刑務所の中, Yoichi Sai, 2002)
A mild-mannered middle-aged man sent to prison for a firearms violation treats his time inside as an anthropological expedition in Yoichi Sai’s quirky dramedy.
Home Coming (万里归途, Rao Xiaozhi, 2022)
Chinese diplomats find themselves the last hope of stranded construction workers when civil war erupts in a middle-eastern nation in Rao Xiaozhi’s visually impressive action drama.
Blue Ribbon Awards Announces Winners for 65th Edition
The Blue Ribbon Awards, presented by film critics and writers in Tokyo, has announced the winners for the 65th edition which honours films released in 2022. Kei Ishikawa’s…
Blood of Revenge (明治侠客伝 三代目襲名, Tai Kato, 1965)
An earnest yakuza trying to walk a more legitimate path faces off against a thuggish businessman in Tai Kato’s late-Meiji ninkyo eiga.
Torso (トルソ, Yutaka Yamazaki, 2009)
A traumatised woman overcomes her sense of loneliness by sharing her life with a limbless inflatable doll in Yutaka Yamazaki’s indie drama.
Feast (Apag, Brillante Mendoza, 2022)
Contemporary class relations are thrown into stark relief when a wealthy son kills a poor father in Brillante Mendoza’s Feast.
Dead Angle (白昼の死角, Toru Murakawa, 1979)
A narcissistic conman takes ironic revenge on the post-war society in Toru Murakawa’s nihilistic crime drama.
Broker (브로커, Hirokazu Koreeda, 2022)
A collection of dispossessed people find themselves slowly becoming a family while trying to find a new home for an abandoned baby in Hirokazu Koreeda’s gentle social drama.
Hypnosis (ヒプノシス, Takuto Okui, 2022)
A hypnotist criminal attempts to rewrite the past on being released from prison in Takuto Okui’s noirish graduation project.
Throne of Blood (蜘蛛巣城, Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
An ambitious retainer falls victim to the false promises of a forest spirit in Akira Kurosawa’s haunting adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Asian Pop-Up Cinema Announces Season 16 Japanese Showcase
Runs in Chicago March 18 & 19 with a screening of French-Japanese co-production Umami on March 22.
Piece of Atom (アトムの欠片, Takuya Koda, 2021)
A teenage boy attempts to come to an accommodation with loss following the sudden death of his parents in Takuya Koda’s nostalgic youth drama.
Rhapsody in August (八月の狂詩曲, Akira Kurosawa, 1991)
Three generations reckon with the wartime past after receiving news from estranged relatives in Hawaii in Kurosawa’s humanist drama.
Legend of Gatotkaca (Satria Dewa: Gatotkaca, Hanung Bramantyo, 2022)
A struggling photographer encounters his destiny when his best fried is murdered by a mysterious laser-wielding figure in Hanung Bramantyo’s super hero drama.
Sanjuro (椿三十郎, Akira Kurosawa, 1962)
The cynical drifter finds himself offering fatherly advice to idealistic but hot-headed samurai youth in Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo followup.
Kinema Junpo Announces 96th Best 10 (2022)
Prestigious cinema magazine Kinema Junpo has released its always anticipated “Best 10” list for films released in 2022, the 96th edition. Small, Slow But Steady takes the top spot plus…
Yojimbo (用心棒, Akira Kurosawa, 1961)
A cynical ronin plays warring factions off against each other to save a moribund silk town in Akira Kurosawa’s samurai western.