The anime industry in Japan is actually much larger than what we know in the West, where we get to see just a portion of the works produced, particularly...
Tag - Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas
“Au Revoir l'Été” by Kôji Fukada is a little gem of a movie, simple and yet multilayered and visually enchanting. It is a story of transition to adulthood, the...
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...
A realistic, meaningful, and at the same time strangely beautiful film that emerges as one of the best of the year.
An anime whose value remains unchanged through the years
In The Orphanage, Shahrbanoo Sadat follows the teen orphan boy Qodrat growing up in Kabul at the end of the Soviet rule over Afghanistan
A family road trip takes turns to emotional depths in Panah Panahi's feature debut.
One of the three entries by Koji Fukada at the We Are One, A Global Film Festival – “Inabe” (2013) curated by the Tokyo Film Festival, is a...