The article was first published on EasternKicks The script is based on the novel July and Ansen by Qing Shan and tells the story of two girls, from the...
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Based on the bestselling book by Yoshida Shūichi, originally serialized in newspaper format, and then published in hardback in 2014, “Rage” provides a unique...
By Shikhar Verma Just the other day I found myself complaining to a friend about how these social media apps are completely destroying the way in which we...
“Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio” is a rude, crude and completely daft Yakuza comedy, based on the manga by Noboru Takahashi, and directed by Takashi Miike, the...
By Shikhar Verma Drug addiction and crime are so closely knitted to each other that a descend into either of them eventually leads to the other. The hardest...
Love, family, and relationships; our lives revolve around it, even for the most misanthropic of us. At the risk of sounding cheesy, no matter how much we fight...
Hong Kong films that have the prison system as their main theme are a rarity in the local cinema, particularly if we exclude the CAT III ones. “With...
China's film industry is the second largest in the world behind Hollywood – although home grown productions tend to struggle both in the domestic and...
With the massive popularity following “Train to Busan”, it seems inevitable that other Asian countries are keen to follow suit in offering their...
By Shikhar Verma In Ritesh Batra's 2013 Indian film ‘The Lunchbox,' romance blossoms between two strangers through food. While being alarmingly...