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Asian Pop-Up Cinema Returns for Season 14!
Online across the US and in person in Chicago March 13 to April 10
Asian Pop-Up Cinema Returns for Season 15!
In cinemas across Chicago and online in the US Sept. 10 to Nov. 6.
Asian Pop-Up Cinema Returns for Season 13!
Running in-person and online in the US Sept. 15 to Oct. 12
Asian Pop-Up Cinema Returns for Season 12!
Online throughout the US March 15 to April 30 and at the Drive-In April 15 to May 1.
Asian Pop-Up Cinema Returns for Season 16!
In cinemas across Chicago March 18 to April 16.
Asian Pop-Up Cinema Reveals Season 17 Sneak Peek
Runs in Chicago Sept. 8 to Oct. 7. Full programme revealed Aug. 28.
Asian Pop Up Cinema Season 18 – Japan Showcase Wrap-Up
Featured image is from Asian Pop-Up Cinema’s Official Instagram, specifically from here. As of writing, the Japan Showcase for Asian Pop Up Cinema Season 18 will have just…
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.
Asian Pop-Up Cinema Announces First Wave of Titles for Season 15
Full lineup announced Aug. 22! Runs in Chicago Sept. 10 to Nov. 6.
Asian Pop-Up Cinema Japan Showcase Report
Featured Image is from Asian Pop-Up Cinema’s Official Instagram Account. Specifically this post. Asian Pop-Up Cinema was something I had only discovered early into 2018, in it’s 6th…
Asian Pop-Up Cinema Season 14 to Open with Heaven: To the Land of Happiness
Online in the US and in cinemas in Chicago March 13 to April 10.
Asian Pop-Up Cinema Celebrates Lunar New Year with Free Streaming Series
Streaming in the US and Canada Jan. 22 to Feb. 5.
Asian Pop-Up Cinema Announces Xie Fei Streaming Retrospective & Cloudy Mountain Drive-In
Six film Xie Fei retrospective streams for free in US & Canada Nov. 12 – 21, while Cloudy Mountain screens at ChiTown Movies Nov. 13
Asian Pop-Up Cinema Announces 2022 Happy Chinese New Year Free Streaming Series
Streaming via Smart Cinema USA in the US & Canada Feb. 1 – 15
A Year in Asian Cinema – April: Chinese Language Cinema
Farewell My Concubine (1993): 8/10 Director: Chen Kaige ; Writers: Lu Wei and Lilian Lee Farewell My Concubine is a historical drama set in 20th century China, exploring…
Q4 2024 Solicitations for UK Asian Cinema Home Video Releases
Two of TOHO’s Godzilla films storm the UK on 4K, alongside Seven Samurai, Dragon Fist, and The Good, The Bad, The Weird, plus there’s tons of Blu-rays including…
Q3 2024 Solicitations for UK Asian Cinema Home Video Releases
A variety of genres from Asia heading to home video, including Message from Space, Bodyguard from Beijing, Ikiru, A Bittersweet Life, and more Shaw Brothers titles!
Q1 2024 Solicitations for UK Asian Cinema Home Video Releases
Asian Cinema continues to thrive in the UK market, with new films, more J-Horror, 60s classics returning to the spotlight and of course more action from Japan &…
Q1 2023 Solicitations for UK Asian Cinema Home Video Releases
Radiance Films joins the UK distribution scene with a classic Japanese film, while Eureka Ent. continues their Hong Kong craze with more action packed films with Cynthia Khan…
Q4 2022 Solicitations for UK Asian Cinema Home Video Releases
The year ends with a bang of releases from the Asian Cinema scene, with another Shawscope box set, a re-release of Infernal Affairs and most recently a highly…
Q3 2023 Solicitations for UK Asian Cinema Home Video Releases
This line-up features multiple Bruce Lee films returning for 4K releases, more Katsuhito Ishii films, Ringu in 4K, and a number of Hong Kong action films making their…
Q2 2023 Solicitations for UK Asian Cinema Home Video Releases
This line-up features a whole bunch of returning classics from The Bullet Train and Yakuza Graveyard all the way to GO, Lady Reporter and The Untold Story uncut!
Q4 2023 Solicitations for UK Asian Cinema Home Video Releases
We wrap up 2023 with more Jackie Chan & Jet Li films as well as re-releases and a few more classics from Japan & Hong Kong making their…
Q2 2024 Solicitations for UK Asian Cinema Home Video Releases
5 more films receive the 4K Ultra HD treatment, plus we have more classic and cult films from Japan also making their Blu-ray debuts!
ONE-INCH - The Best of Asian Cinema
'Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.' This is how director Bong Joon-ho, director of 2019s acclaimed…
Dr. Stone Returns to Crunchyroll for a Third Season
The good folks from streaming giant Crunchyroll have just sent us details that Dr. Stone will return from 6th April 2023 with Dr. Stone New ...
Focus Hong Kong Returns to The Garden Cinema 24th June
Two contemporary classics screening at London’s Garden Cinema, 24th June.
One Piece Episode 1098 Review: Lucci Returns! Gear Up for Egghead Island
Dr. Vegapunk had to research information from the Void Century, thus becoming an enemy of the World Government.
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
Kyōhei Ishiguro's debut feature film was the unfortunate victim of COVID-19 delays in 2020, but if you do manage to watch this, it is absolutely the perfect pick-me-up…
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
A wholesome, feel-good, low-stress adorable piece that channels the essence of teenage summer.
Words, Bubble, Up, Like, Soda, Pop
A short haiku (adapted with 5-7-5 syllable, which I tried to) appreciation post, for a movie on finding themselves, and finding love. Literally, searching for love that is…
POP! Director: Masashi Komura (2021) [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2021]
POP! provides a slightly surreal, slightly sweet existential crisis. POP! Director: Masashi Komura (2021) [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2021]
Pop Team Epic Season 2
Pop Team Epic Season 2 is currently streaming on Crunchyroll....
Tezuka Osamu’s Manga Works: Pop-up Exhibit
EDITION 88 will hold an exhibit for Osamu Tezuka artwork.
Review: Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
This is a movie worthy of moving to the front of your watch list and then finding an excuse to take the next ninety minutes away from whatever…
NEWS: “Oshi no Ko” Returns to HIDIVE for Season 2 This July
Anime streamer HIDIVE announces that the hit anime Oshi no Ko will be returning to HIDIVE for season 2 in July.
Gravity Rush 2 Review – Kat Returns Powered Up
The first Gravity Rush game was a short but sweet experience that exemplifies why I love playing video games. It was stylistically pleasing and presented a world I…
Dropped – A look at what could have been – Asian Cinema and Dramas
Lately, I’ve been thinking about my dropped list. Mostly because I’ve found it way more interesting to see what people stopped and started, verses what they’ve finished. Finding…
Pop Team Epic Season 2 – 01
「アイデンティティ」 (Identity) "Identity" Get rid of all of your preconceived notions. Or else!
BTS Pop-Up Shop + MOTS ON:E Merch Haul
My first BTS POP UP Shop merch ever!
Episode 207 - Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
This week, Shaun's crippling soda addiction knows no bounds, he is even having us watch the Netflix movie Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop because of the name…
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop – Summer Love
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop is a long title for a sweet movie and a good romantic anime to watch on St-Valentine's.
Reincarnated as a Sword #01 — Pop Up Spam
Remember when this was only for scam webpages and not the selling point of a show? Impressions: I weep for what fantasy anime has become. When I first…
November Anime Collaborations and Pop-up Store Events
1. Piofiore Fated Memories in アニON STATION Event Period: November 6 – December 13Website: Piofiore Fated Memories is an otome game developed by Otomate, and they are having…
Out of TOKYO202x Director: Akinori Ikuse [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022] V-Cinema
A rewrite of my review of Out of TOKYO202x, a refreshing sci-fi short from Japan that takes the time-slip formula and uses it on the summer Olympics! Director: Akinori…
“PSYCHO:LOGY” — Pop Team Epic Season 2 OP
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An Interview with Masashi Komura, Director of POP! [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2021]
An Interview with Masashi Komura, Director of POP! [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2021]
February 2021 Anime Collaborations and Pop-up Store Events
There are so many interesting anime collaborations every month, and we are here to bring to you our monthly collaboration post! Even if you can’t visit these places,…
Horimiya, Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun, SK8 the Infinity, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
April 2021 Anime Collaborations and Pop-up Store Events
So many tempting anime and otome game collaborations this month! I listed some that caught my eye below. 1. Jujutsu Kaisen x Raku Spa Event Period: April 23…
Bungo Stray Dogs, JUJUTSU KAISEN, Moriarty the Patriot, Shaman King, World Trigger
October 2021 Anime Collaborations and Pop-up Store Events
1. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War x Amnibus Event Period: October 16 – October 31Website: Kaguya-sama: Love is War is having a collaboration with Animate stores for this spooky…
Tokyo Revengers, Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan, JUJUTSU KAISEN, Kaguya-sama: Love is War, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba