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The Girl Who Stole Time (时间之子, Yu Ao & Zhou Tienan, 2025)
All Qian Xiao (voiced by Liu Xiaoyu) wants to escape her boring island life where time runs slowing to experience the fast-paced life of the city, though her…
The Last Woman on Earth (지구 최후의 여자, Yeum Moon-kyoung & Lee Jong-min, 2024)
Wronged by an internationally famous film director, a pair of aspiring filmmakers set their sights on cinematic revenge in Yeum Moon-kyoung and Lee Jong-min’s meta comedy, Last Woman…
The Last Blossom (ホウセンカ, Baku Kinoshita, 2025)
Seen from above, balsam flowers look like an arrangement of leaves, yet when viewed from the side, the pretty flower within becomes visible. It’s an apt metaphor for…
The Lost Alibi (黒い画集 あるサラリーマンの証言, Hiromichi Horikawa, 1960)
A salaryman is conflicted when asked to provide an alibi knowing to do so could expose his extra-marital affair in Hiromichi Horikawa’s psychological noir.
Warla (Kevin Z. Alambra, 2025)
A group of transwomen attempts to turn the tables by kidnapping wealthy foreign businessmen and blackmailing them to fund their surgery, but a newcomer to the group forces…
The First Ride (퍼스트 라이드, Nam Dae-joong, 2025)
According to Tae-jung (Kang Ha-neul), the most hopeless phrase that Koreans say is “next time.” As he grew older and away from his childhood friends, he found himself…
Seaside Serendipity (海辺へ行く道, Satoko Yokohama, 2025)
As we follow the road that leads down to the beach in the presence of a black cat, there’s a sign at the beginning of Satoko Yokohama’s Seaside…
Scarlet (果てしなきスカーレット, Mamoru Hosoda, 2025)
A gender-flipped take on Hamlet, Mamoru Hosoda’s latest feature animation Scarlet (果てしなきスカーレット, Hateshinaki Scarlet) seems to be a rebuttal of contemporary isolationist politics and authoritarian governments. His Otherworld…
Fusa (その木戸を通って, Kon Ichikawa, 1993)
Kon Ichikawa’s Fusa (その木戸を通って, Sono Kido wo Totte) opens on a note of artifice. Misty rain and the verdant green of the forest give way to total darkness…
Mudborn (泥娃娃, Shieh Meng-ju, 2025)
Poor old Hsu-Chuan is stuck making a scary VR horror game based on a grisly real-life crime, while his own wholesome proposal to create one about spending time…
The Heart of Hiroshima (愛と死の記録, Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1966)
Sayuri Yoshinaga was the top female star at Nikkatsu in the mid-1960s. Together with her regular co-star Mitsuo Hamada, she starred in a series of hit youth romances…
Laddaland (ลัดดาแลนด์, Sophon Sakdaphisit, 2011)
Laddaland (ลัดดาแลนด์) is a strangely haunted place. The people who live there are mainly ghosts, but also haunted by the spirits of financial anxiety and toxic masculinity amid…
Sincerity (まごころ, Mikio Naruse, 1939)
When the daughter of a poor family leapfrogs that of a rich one to be named top of the class, it exposes a series of hypocrisies and contradictions…
The Dumpling Queen (水饺皇后, Andrew Lau, 2025)
There are a lot of ironies and contradictions at the heart of Andrew Lau’s Dumpling Queen (水饺皇后, shuǐjiǎo huánghòu) inspired by the life of Zang Jianhe who founded…
My Sunshine (ぼくのお日さま, Hiroshi Okuyama, 2024)
A young man with his head in the clouds discovers a new means of expression through figure skating in Hiroshi Okuyama’s delicate drama.
Silent Sparks (愛作歹, Chu Ping, 2024)
Recently released from prison, a young man discovers that it might be easier to be free behind bars than amid the incredibly homosocial world of urban gangsterdom in…
Holy Night: Demon Hunters (거룩한 밤: 데몬 헌터스, Lim Dae-hee, 2025)
The mighty fists of Ma Dong-seok punch the Devil right back to hell in Lim Dae-hee’s supernatural action drama, Holy Night: Demon Hunters (거룩한 밤: 데몬 헌터스, Geolughan…
Come Dance With Me (来来, Liu Yunyi & Wei Bozhi, 2019)
“You need to fight for your place in society,” according to Jiaojiao, one of several regulars at the Lai Lai Ballroom interviewed as part of Liu Yunyi &…
Strangers (Kenta Ikeda, 2024)
Naoko, the heroine of Kenta Ikeda’s Strangers, says she’s been pretending all her life. She’s been pretending to be what everyone wanted her to without really knowing or…
The Killing Machine (少林寺拳法, Norifumi Suzuki, 1976)
A former Manchurian special operative tries to fix the post-war world through teaching Shaolin kung fu in Norifumi Suzuki’s martial arts drama.
The Killing Machine (少林寺拳法, Norifumi Suzuki, 1975)
A former Manchurian special operative tries to fix the post-war world through teaching Shaolin kung fu in Norifumi Suzuki’s martial arts drama.
1 Girl Infinite (Lilly Hu, 2025)
There’s a moment in Lilly Hu’s gritty Changsha-set drama 1 Girl Infinite in which the heroine, Yinjia (Chen Xuanyu), watches as a fishmonger bashes a fish to death.…
Hit N Fun (臨時決鬥, Albert Mak Kai-Kwong, 2025)
After her long-term boy friend leaves her for a Muay Thai champion, an icy producer decides to fight back in Albert Mak Kai-Kwong’s heartfelt comedy.
Between Goodbyes (Jota Mun, 2024)
There’s a small irony at the centre of Jota Mun’s documentary Between Goodbyes in that she often cuts back to contemporary stock footage of television items covering the…
Minbo, or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (ミンボーの女, Juzo Itami, 1992)
“Yakuza are vain, treat them politely,” the heroine of Juzo Itami’s 1992 comedy Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (ミンボーの女, Minbo no Onna) instructs a hapless…
Hijack 1971 (하이재킹, Kim Sung-han, 2024)
An airline pilot shunned for a controversial judgement call is faced with a similar decision when his plane in hijacked in Kim Sung-han’s real life thriller.
Blue Sun Palace (藍色太陽宮, Constance Tsang, 2024)
“It’s funny how quickly people you love become strangers,” a middle-aged man muses while talking about more than one thing at the same time. Those at the centre…
Sunshine (Antoinette Jadaone, 2024)
“Don’t drag me into this,” a boy says after hearing that his girlfriend is pregnant, having already questioned if the baby’s really his. Miggy signals his lack of…
Roaring Fire (吼えろ鉄拳, Norifumi Suzuki, 1981)
If Chiba’s karate films and the Sister Streetfighter series had been influenced by Shaw Brother’s kung fu films, Roaring Fire (吼えろ鉄拳, Hoero Tekken) is an homage to contemporary…
I Did It My Way (潛行, Jason Kwan, 2023)
“Oldies are still the best,” one bad guy tells another while listening to a retro pop song about the inability to distinguish good from evil, “life was simpler…
Cloud (Cloud クラウド, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2024)
“We wanted to make easy money,” a down-on-his luck reseller admits, “is life easy now?” Factory worker Ryosuke (Masaki Suda) rebels against capitalism by subverting it through buying…
Strawman (稻草人, Wang Tung, 1987)
The literal “strawman” at the centre of Wang Tung’s colonial era satire is a scarecrow who occasionally narrates the events of this small village where, he laments, almost…
Big Time Gambling Boss (博奕打ち 総長賭博, Kosaku Yamashita, 1968)
A Shakespearean tragedy of blood and honour, Kosaku Yamashita’s Big Time Gambling Boss discovers only fatalism and futility in the nobility of the yakuza code
This Love of Mine (我的愛, Chang Yi, 1986)
When an already anxious housewife discovers her husband’s affair, she becomes aware of the extent to which she is already trapped by the patriarchal social codes of the…
Ah Fei (油麻菜籽, Wan Jen, 1983)
A few minutes into Wan Jen’s familial melodrama Ah Fei (油麻菜籽, yóu má càizǐ), a mother takes her children by the hand and walks to the end of…
My Favorite Season (最想念的季節, Chen Kun-Hou, 1985)
After becoming pregnant by her married lover, an otherwise independent young woman decides she must find a husband so that her baby will be legitimised but plans to…
Striking Rescue (惊天大营救, Cheng Siyi, 2024)
Once again set in a fictional South Eastern Asian nation largely inhabited by Mandarin speakers, Cheng Siyi’s action drama Striking Rescue (惊天大营救, jīng tiāndà yíngjiù) is a comeback…
Autumn Tempest (落山風, Huang Yu-Shan, 1988)
When the autumn tempest comes, it can launch a buffalo into the air, according to a middle-aged woman working at a remote mountain temple. Wen-Hsiang (Yang Ching-huang) is…
The Beetle Project (숙제, Jin Kwang-kyo, 2025)
Two kind-hearted schoolchildren discover common ground with a boy in the North when he take in his lost beetle in Jin Kwang-kyo’s charming childhood movie.
Out of the Blue (小爸爸的天空, Chen Kun-Hou, 1984)
A young man begins to dream after discovering he has become a father in Chen Kun-Hou’s poignant coming of age drama Out of the Blue (小爸爸的天空, xiǎo bàba de…
Rainy Blue (レイニー ブルー, Asuna Yanagi, 2025)
“You never know when it will end,” Aoi mutters to a concerned teacher. “The streaming period, and my life.” Asuna Yanagi’s Rainy Blue (レイニー ブルー) is a semi-autobiographical…
Brush of the God (カミノフデ ～怪獣たちのいる島～, Keizo Murase, 2024)
A young girl struggles to accept her grandfather’s legacy in Keizo Murase’s retro drama.
Revolver (리볼버, Oh Seung-uk, 2024)
Everyone is always making promises to Su-yeong, but promises don’t count for very much in this world of infinite duplicity. Reuniting director Oh Seung-uk with The Shameless star…
The Uniform (夜校女生, Chuang Ching-Shen, 2024)
A young woman from a humble background is gradually seduced by upper-middle class mores after gaining admission to an elite school in Chuang Ching-Shen’s teen drama.
Teki Cometh (敵, Daihachi Yoshida, 2024)
A retired professor’s gradually slides into fantasy as he awaits the arrival of a mysterious enemy in Daihachi Yoshida’s surreal character piece.
Ne Zha 2 (哪吒之魔童闹海, Jiaozi, 2025)
By the end of 2019’s smash hit animation Ne Zha, the titular hero (Lü Yanting) and his opposite number Ao Bing (Han Mo) had figured out that they…
Homestay (ฮมสเตย์, Parkpoom Wongpoom, 2018)
A lost soul is given a second chance if only he can figure out what caused the person whose body he’s inhabiting to take in his own life…
Chigasaki Story (3泊4日、5時の鐘, Takuya Misawa, 2014)
Desire and desperation bubble to the surface at a small hotel making preparations for a wedding in Takuya Misawa’s Chigasaki Story (3泊4日、5時の鐘, 3-paku 4-ka, 5-ji no kane). Though…
Harbin (하얼빈, Woo Min-ho, 2024)
A frustrated revolutionary decides assassination is the only path to independence in Woo Min-ho’s tense exploration of the life of Ahn Jung-geun.
Silent City Driver (Чимээгүй хотын жолооч, Sengedorj Janchivdorj, 2024)
A melancholy hearse driver embarks on a doomed romance with a coffin maker’s daughter in Sengedorj Janchivdorj’s melancholy character study.