It’s a strange and unfortunate truth that the action genre is habitually relegated to the league of second-tier cinema by many of the most serious-minded western critics and film fans. Perhaps it would be a different […]
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Over the course of seven provocative, brazenly erotic feature films, writer-director Scud (aka Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung) has carved out a distinct and controversial place for himself in Hong Kong cinema. In his latest work, Thirty […]
Against the picturesque backdrop of rural Japan, two lone travellers find unexpected romance in Anusorn Soisa-Ngim’s Present Perfect. As the young Toey (Adisorn Tonawanik) and Oat (Kritsana Maroukasonti) gradually work out their feelings for each […]
Director: Miwa Nishikawa The Long Excuse, directed by Miwa Nishikawa, is a harrowing exploration of one man’s gradual descent into guilt and the powerful ways in which it engulfs him. Masahiro Motoki plays Sachio Kinugasa, a […]
Based on horrific true events that unfolded between the Filipino military and the locals in rural Mindanao, The Right to Kill offers an intense and mournful depiction of a family whose peaceful lives are tragically […]
Though sex on screen has been an existent phenomenon for almost as long as the various mediums that have enabled it, pornography’s place in society remains one of continuous transformation in line with shifting cultural trends […]