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‘The Last Dance’: Tokyo Review
Dir/scr: Anselm Chan Mou-yin. Hong Kong. 2024. 126mins
The pandemic crippled quite a few Hong Kong companies, together with the marriage planning firm of 50-something...
‘Teki Cometh’: Tokyo Review
Dir/scr: Yoshida Daihachi. Japan. 2024. 108mins
Retired, long-widowed college professor Gisuke Watanabe (Nagatsuka Kyozo) lives an austere however elegant life within the conventional Japanese home...
‘The Unseen Sister’: Tokyo Review
Dir: Midi Z. China. 2024. 112 minutes.
Chilly and queenly, Chinese language film star Qiao Yan (Zhao Liying) guards her privateness ferociously. She trusts no...
China out of Oscars race after ‘The Sinking Of The Lisbon Maru’ ruled ineligible
China’s entry to the upcoming Oscars has been deemed ineligible, that means the nation won't compete for the most effective worldwide characteristic movie award...
’Lust In The Rain’: Tokyo Review
Dir: Shinzo Katayama. Japan/Taiwan. 2024. 132mins
Gauche aspiring manga artist Yoshio (Ryo Narita) finds himself inhabiting the sometimes visited third nook of a love triangle...
‘Memories Of A Burning Body’, ‘Yohanna’ win at Jakarta Film Week
Antonella Sudasassi Furniss’ Recollections Of A Burning Physique and Razka Robby Ertanto’s Yohanna have received the perfect international characteristic and greatest Indonesian characteristic respectively...
‘Don’t Cry, Butterfly’: Venice Review
Dir/scr: Duong Dieu Linh. Vietnam/Singapore/Indonesia/Philippines. 2024. 97mins.
Hardworking Hanoi-based marriage ceremony planner Tam (Le Tu Oanh) learns of her husband Thanh’s (Le Vu Lengthy) infidelity...
‘Happyend’: Venice Review
Dir. Neo Sora. Japan/USA 2024. 113mins
Oddly languid for a movie about youth unrest, Happyend is a low-key Japanese drama about friendship, revolt and standing as much as the...
Hungarian director Bela Tarr to receive Tokyo film festival honour
Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr is ready to obtain a lifetime achievement award on the upcoming 37th Tokyo Worldwide Movie Pageant.
The director, recognized for epic...
Sho Miyake, Fu Tien-yu to receive Kurosawa Akira Award at Tokyo film festival 2024
Tokyo Worldwide Movie Competition (TIFF) will honour Japanese filmmaker Sho Miyake and Taiwanese director Fu Tien-yu with the Kurosawa Akira Award at its upcoming...