Yeo Joon Han's debut black comedy “Sell Out!” premiered more than a decade ago and since than has been shown at more than thirty film festivals around the...
Author - Martin Lukanov
Language nerd with a soft spot for giant monsters, kungfu vampires, and abstract music. When not watching Asian movies, I write about giant monsters and release music on tapes.
Titled after Kaku Arakawa's NHK documentary about the Japanese anime visionary Hayao Miyazaki “Never-Ending Man”, Steve Alpert's business memoir...
Shot on location in the eponymous border town between Indonesia and East Timor, Riri Riza's “Atambua 39° Celsius” deals with the consequences...
“Cobalt Blue” is the second short from the Burmese director Aung Phyoe. The title of movie was inspired by a line from the lyrics of a musical composition by...
Aung Phyoe's debut short “Seasonal Rain” is based on Kyi Aye's short story of the same name, found and digitized by the director for a site dedicated to...
“Spark” by Naoki Matayoshi is by all accounts a hit novel in Japan. It has sold more than three million copies, won the most prestigious Japanese literary...
“The Eyes of Summer” is the latest experimental short by the Sri Lankan director and visual artist Rajee Samarasinghe. The black-and-white film was shown in...
Minh Quý Trương tackles the lofty and profound themes of memory and belonging in his sophomore semi-documentary “The Tree House”. It premiered at the...
Cambodia's first action road-trip comedy “Gems on the Run” is Sok Visal's directorial debut, co-directed with Quentin Clausin. The movie premiered at...
Historically, the so-called modernization has, and continues to, brought the homogenization of nations, cultures, and languages, and together with it, the...