To what extent is “Deadly Outlaw: Rekka” (aka Violent Fire) simply just another Takashi Miike yakuza flick, drenched in the overly common tropes of...
Author - JC Cansdale-Cook
A series of (fortunate) events led this writer-of-sorts to Battle Royale and he's never looked back since. A lover of Japanese cinema in all its guises, JC has developed a fondness for emerging, underrepresented cinemas as well as a growing love affair with the cinema of Taiwan. He's also a sucker for cinematography.
Some films just leave you dumbfounded. Dead in your tracks they leave you speechless, standing in awe at their very presence, the journey they immerse you in...
Ryushi Lindsay is a London and Tokyo-based Anglo-Japanese filmmaker working across documentary and narrative forms. He is particularly drawn to political...
A graduate of both the Seoul Institute of the Arts and the Korean Academy of Film Arts, Yi Ok-seop has been carving a name for herself with a variety of...
Friend, I have watched you down the mountain/ Till now in the dark I close my thatch-door…/ Grasses return again green in the spring,/ But, O Wang Sun, will...
Only one year before he paved the way for the frenetic cool of the Japanese New Wave with his unabashedly sexual and violent taiyo zoku film ‘The Warped Ones'...
Depicts the senseless and the dangerous with the flick of a knife
Perhaps unknown to many at the time, especially at the onset of the Asian financial crisis, 1997 would become a huge year for South Korean cinema, turning the...
Sometimes it takes a random cessation of momentum to make us ponder on the directions we are headed, not just in the literal sense of “where are we going?” but...
Carlo Enciso Catu was born in Angeles City, Pampanga, on September 26th 1993. He worked as a professional theater actor. After a series of short movies, he...