The Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful, Yang Ya Che’s female gangster film, is one of the best Chinese-language movies of the past year.
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The New York Asian Film Festival opened with a literal bang in an epic biopic about infamous Japanese porn magnate Akira Suei.
It was fitting that the movie chosen this year was the 1992 Hong Kong Category III thriller Naked Killer, and a rare 35MM print, no less.
And the surprise screening isssssssss… Naked Killer! #NYAFF17 pic.twitter.com/5Ed4g5BISC
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Everything about this movie is derivative of other movies – the sexploitation of[...]
This is, in the end, the New China and the New Chinese Cinema, where it's all about the glamour, escapism and box office.
This movie wasn't as fun as I hoped, but writing about it turned out to be more fun than I expected.
This is Not What I Expected has already screened at the NYAFF, but[...]
Eric Tsang deserves the NYAFF 2017 Star Hong Kong Lifetime Achievement Award they presented to him at the festival yesterday evening.
The movie recalls the tenement building social dramas that Hong Kong used to make in the old days, and this is a return to that form, only even harsher and more downbeat It's not a[...]
'Mrs. B., A North Korean Woman' showcases a clever, crafty, and very human woman who makes the best out of a rough situation.
Vampire Cleanup Department is defiantly Hong Kong. The supernatural element guarantees it won't be shown in Mainland China, and it wears that proudly.
It's just a pity you're never given any real closure.
You can catch Jane playing at the NYAFF on July 13th, which includes a Q&A with director Cho Hyun-hoon and actors Gu Gyo-hwan and Lee Min-ji Tickets are available here.
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Jane is marketed as the story of a young woman abandoned by her boyfriend[...]
Given that this movie only premiered in Hong Kong a few weeks ago, the festival getting it so soon is a major coup, and it's a window into where Hong Kong's head is at right now.
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Only Tsui Hark and Stephen Chow would combine slapstick with massive CGI mayhem to turn Journey to the West 2 into something that’s anything but generic.
A huge hit in China in late 2015, The Taking of Tiger Mountain is a barnstorming action movie adaptation of a piece of Chinese communist propaganda classic
'Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio' is just silly fun all the way, where nothing is taken seriously, and an homage to Hong Kong action movies in the climax.
A Double Life is one of those Japanese existential movies that border on exploitation, but wants to chew on much meatier matters than that.
Korean indie film 'A Quiet Dream' is a wistful, surrealist tale about observing people as they go about their lives the best way they know how.
In Extraordinary Mission, writer Felix Chong and directors Alan Mak and Anthony Pun bring their genre expertise to the undercover thriller in China.
For all the slickness, 'Blood of Youth' really doesn’t really say much other than a dark, nihilistic, and shameless exercise in audience manipulation.
Bad Genius is the opening film at the New York Asian Film Festival. A high school heist thriller from Thailand that’s as slick as anything from Hollywood.