The first North Korean film I have ever watched, turned out to be a surprise, for a number of reasons. Let us take things from the beginning, though. Elite...
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.
For 10 years, Five Flavours Film Festival has been presenting the best cinema from Asia, its meanings and contexts. Initially, the Festival focused solely on...
A seemingly regular family gets an unexpected visitor The Suzuokas are a seemingly regular family of three, living in the suburbs. The husband, Toshio, runs a...
The script is based on the short story “Over Fence” from the collection “Ogon no Fuku” by Yasushi Sato. Shiraiwa has recently divorced and has...
During the last two decades, Hirokazu Koreeda has emerged as the contemporary master of Japanese family drama, with films like “Nobody Knows”...
A not so common script The film starts with a kindergarten teacher escorting a bunch of ragtag children in a restaurant, where she orders a single bowl of food...
Even when he directs a satire, the result is not the expected
The film is based on a true story that was first published in Shinchosha's “Shincho 45” monthly magazine and was later republished as a nonfiction...
Based on the great, homonymous novel by Kazuhiro Kiuchi, and having quite a large budget, since it was backed by Warner Bros, “Shield of Straw” had...
"In some rural Philippine communities, boys are circumcised not at birth, but at the age of ten".