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- A member of the Online Film Critics Society, Christopher Bourne is a senior reporter for Meniscus Magazine. He is a writer and incurable cinephile living in New York City.
![Masahiro Kobayashi’s 2005 film Bashing takes as its inspiration the ostracism experienced by Japanese humanitarian workers in Iraq after surviving kidnapping there. The film’s protagonist, Yuko (played with quiet intensity by […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Bashing+3-115x115.jpg "Review: Masahiro Kobayashi’s “Bashing”")
![Jinsa Maeng, the patriarch of a village household in the Chosun era, is obsessed with his social status and constantly schemes to elevate it. To this end, he arranges to […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Jinsa-Maeng-115x115.jpg "Review: Lee Yong-min’s “A Happy Day of Jinsa Maeng”")
![One of the most interesting things about Tsai Ming-liang’s filmmaking career, considering what an inimitable and uncompromising artist he is, is the fact that three of the nine […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Hole+1-115x115.png "Review: Tsai Ming-liang’s “The Hole”")
![Charles Burnett’s 1977 masterpiece Killer of Sheep, which finally received a proper theatrical release 30 years after its premiere, makes its own powerful argument as an indispensable work, one of […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/killer-of-sheep_still-008lg-115x115.jpg "Review: Charles Burnett’s “Killer of Sheep”")
![The title of Shin Han-sol’s 2006 debut feature, Art of Fighting, proves to be quite an ironic one, since the fighting on display is anything but artful. Byeong-tae (Jae Hee, […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Art-of-Fighting-1-115x115.jpg "Review: Shin Han-sol’s “Art of Fighting”")
![One major element of Tsai Ming-liang’s films, remarked on by many commentators, is water; Tsai’s films are practically drenched with it. Water, in all its forms, courses through the films; […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Rebels+1-115x115.png "Review: Tsai Ming-liang’s “Rebels of the Neon God”")
![Japan’s Nikkatsu Studios is best known for their wild, kinetic action films, especially those of Seijun Suzuki (Tokyo Drifter, Branded to Kill). However, there were a number of other directors […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Warped-Ones-115x115.jpg "Review: Koreyoshi Kurahara’s “The Warped Ones”")
![Twice in The Fourth Portrait, Chung Mong-hong’s downbeat, episodic, and almost surreally fragmented second feature, Wen-hsiang (Bi Xiao-hai), the ten-year old boy at the narrative’s center, enters, and emerges from, […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/The+Fourth+Portrait+-+image+2-115x115.jpg "Review: Chung Mong-hong’s “The Fourth Portrait”")
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