Apart from a couple cameos in “Hostage: Missing Celebrity” and “Hunt”, actor Ju Ji-hoon has mostly been absent from the big screen...
Author - Rhythm Zaveri
Hello, my name is Rhythm Zaveri. For as long as I can remember, I've been watching movies, but my introduction to Asian cinema was old rental VHS copies of Bruce Lee films and some Shaw Bros. martial arts extravaganzas. But my interest in the cinema of the region really deepened when I was at university and got access to a massive range of VHS and DVDs of classic Japanese and Chinese titles in the library, and there has been no turning back since.
An avid collector of physical media, I would say Korean cinema really is my first choice, but I'll watch anything that is south-east Asian. I started contributing to Asian Movie Pulse in 2018 to share my love for Asian cinema in the form of my writings.
Despite being a remake of Johnnie To classic “Drug War”, Lee Hae-young's stylish crime thriller “Believer” did just enough to have its...
The coronavirus pandemic had a very detrimental effect not just on film production but also distribution and release. Productions with an international...
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Hwang Jung-min playing Hwang Jung-min can only be a good thing, right?!
“If you love something, it will take you somewhere.”
Back in 2018, Hirokazu Koreeda won the Palme d'Or with his film “Shoplifters' and the film world was excited to see what the Japanese auteur did next...
Ma Dong-seok. Sometimes the name itself is enough for a person to want to see the film. The man's charisma is all the audience needs to decide to see the...
The last time Timo Tjahjanto delved in the action genre was with 2018's superb “The Night Comes for Us”. While he has since been making horror...
"Why live long? What's the point?"