“I'm glad I got to be your friend.” Bongkoj Khongmalai can look back on a successful acting career in her home country. With many collaborations...
Tag - New York Asian Film Festival
One of Malaysia's most controversial titles, director Dain Iskander Said created a firestorm of controversy with his 2007 film ‘Dukun.' Based on a true...
Films about mid-life crisis are not so common, even if one considers cinema as a whole. Sunny Chan however, decided to tackle the subject, by including the all...
Awarded with the Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Leading Actress and Best Director, “I Can Speak” addresses many topics, but one, in particular, takes the...
The New York Asian Film Festival highlights another movie that went home with some of the 22nd Busan Film Festival's awards. It could be argued that it is...
On a truck packed with furniture, a mother is telling her daughter that their new home is on “Happiness Road”. A little girl, with her eyes wide-opened, asks:...
“Kamikaze Taxi” isn't the film you think it is. It starts out with documentary style footage and then it slides into feature narrative and stays...
“Tears of the Black Tiger” is a landmark for the Thai film industry, for a number of reasons. The fact that is presented as an amalgam of a parody...
Director Yuichiro Tanaka goes all out in this drug-fuelled blend of yakuza crime drama and stoner comedy. “Smokin' on the Moon” gives us a cast of crazy...
Dreams, relationships and attachments are tried and tested in director Jeon Go-woon's brilliant debut “Microhabitat”, which is having its North American...