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Ekin Cheng, Natalie Hsu to receive top honours at New York Asian Film Festival
EXCLUSIVE: Hong Kong star Ekin Cheng and fast-rising actress Natalie Hsu are set to obtain honorary awards on the New York Asian Movie Pageant...
‘Brand New Landscape’ review: Debut explores a Tokyo family in crisis
Dir: Yuiga Danzuka. Japan. 2025. 115mins
Two siblings have very totally different emotional reactions to attainable reconciliation with their estranged father in Yuiga Danzuka’s first...
‘A Pale View Of Hills’ review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel gets tangled between Japan and the UK
Dir/scr: Kei Ishikawa. Japan/UK/Poland. 2025. 123mins
The autumn-out from the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki has an afterlife that extends by generations on...
‘Left-Handed Girl’ review: Sean Baker-backed family drama is set on the bustling streets of Taipei
Dir: Shih-ching Tsou. Taiwan/France/USA/UK. 2025. 109mins
Returning to her native Taiwan from her US residence, common Sean Baker collaborator Shih-Ching Tsou channels the color and chaos...
‘Sons Of The Neon Night’ review: With no expense spared, Juno Mak constructs an alternate 1990s Hong Kong
Dir: Juno Mak. Hong Kong. 2025. 129mins
Conflicting morality, ambitions and strategies are on the coronary heart of Sons Of The Neon Night time, the...
‘Renoir’ review: A grieving 11-year-old retreats into fantasy in 1980s Tokyo
Dir/scr: Chie Hayakawa. Japan/France/Singapore/Philippines/Indonesia/Qatar. 2025. 120mins
Together with her father sinking into the ultimate phases of terminal most cancers and her mom frazzled by stress,...
Cannes Critics’ Week unveils prizes for 2025 edition
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s comedy-drama A Helpful Ghost has gained the Grand Prix within the impartial Critics’ Week sidebar in Cannes.
The movie was chosen by a...
‘Exit 8’ review: Tokyo’s subway is an endless purgatory in ‘ingenious’ video game adaptation
Dir. Genki Kawamura. Japan 2025. 95mins
The theme music to Genki Kawamura’s conceptual chiller Exit 8 is Ravel’s Bolero, nevertheless it may simply have kicked...
China’s ‘Her Story’ wins best film at Udine’s Far East Film Festival
Chinese language comedy-drama Her Story scooped the Golden Mulberry for finest movie on the Far East Movie Pageant (FEFF) in Udine, Italy.
Shao Yihui’s feminist...
Jackie Chan to receive Pardo Alla Carriera honour at Locarno Film Festival
Hong Kong star Jackie Chan is to be honoured with the Pardo Alla Carriera award on the 78th Locarno Movie Pageant (August 6-16).
The award...