“Father to Son” is one of those movies that take its time simmering in order to tell the story. While the pacing is slow, it never gets boring. Due to its...
Author - Pedro Morata
Born in Spain in the early 90's. Anime has been with me all my life and i became a film lover on my mid-teen years. My interest and love for asian cinema especially began a couple of years later when i watched two specific films: Hard Boiled and Chungking Express.
Since then, i'ts been non stop. I really fell in love with the style of Hong Kong action cinema and with all kinds of films from Japan, South Korea, China and Thailand. There's something very special in all these asian flicks: A unique style, originality, grittiness and passion. It's a whole new world. You can follow me on twitter: @PeterPayne9
Childhood can be a very complicated period if you take into account the family context of oneself. It may be that the protagonists of the film (Hee Yeon Kim...
The world is a wasteland. That's how the world is described in “An Elephant Sitting Still”, the directorial debut and (sadly) the last film of Chinese film...
“How Long Will I Love U” is one of those movies that overflow with personality and joy just from the beginning. You may or may not like romantic comedies at...
“Us and Them” is the perfect love story of passion for teenagers, but also for adults. I must admit that the romantic genre is not one I usually pay...
What I always admired from Japanese cinema is the powerful contrast it has: capable of creating the most psychological/eerie stories filled with blood and...
Is it possible to make a film that mixes friendship themes in the style of Shunji Iwai with the intrigue and bizarre terror of Takashi Miike? The new director...
If there is a film (or films) meant to represent Japan's nowadays society/economy in a nutshell, that could be this 6 hour epic journey called “Wilderness:...
A story about loyalty, love, betrayal and revenge. The Wasted Times captures all the ins and outs of the organized crime business during the late 30's with...
Hong Kong cinema expands its borders once more and brings us a new fast paced action/adventure film, starring the one and only Andy Lau and international known...