"Flowers don't bloom on bamboo, right?"
Author - Panos Kotzathanasis
My name is Panos Kotzathanasis and I am Greek. Being a fan of Asian cinema and especially of Chinese kung fu and Japanese samurai movies since I was a little kid, I cultivated that love during my adolescence, to extend to the whole of SE Asia.
Starting from my own blog in Greek, I then moved on to write for some of the major publications in Greece, and in a number of websites dealing with (Asian) cinema, such as Taste of Cinema, Hancinema, EasternKicks, Chinese Policy Institute, and of course, Asian Movie Pulse. in which I still continue to contribute.
In the beginning of 2017, I launched my own website, Asian Film Vault, which I merged in 2018 with Asian Movie Pulse, creating the most complete website about the Asian movie industry, as it deals with almost every country from East and South Asia, and definitely all genres.
A film that soars with tension, despite the calmness that seems to emit from the characters
The film is split in three parts taking place in 1999, 2014 and 2025. The first one begins in Fenyang on New Years Eve, where two childhood friends, the young...
I have to admit, although I am a big fan of Kim Ki-duk's films, his latest efforts have not satisfied me at all. After the trouble he had with...
Interview with Koji Fukada
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There is an issue when somebody tries to review Eric Khoo's films. Despite of the opinion you might have about them, the fact remains that a number of them are...
As a fan of (also) exploitation films, I have repeatedly mentioned that I feel that the depiction of extremely graphic violence can function as an anti...