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Akita City “Kanto Matsuri” performance – 2024 Honolulu Festival
19 April 2025 7:57 AM | No CommentsThe Akita City Kanto Festival Executive Committee performed at the 2024 Honolulu Festival, showcasing music and pole-balancing stunts from its annual Kanto Matsuri.
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Petit Bateau Fall 2025 – Tokyo Fashion Week
19 April 2025 5:39 AM | No CommentsWhy did a 132-year-old French casualwear brand, mostly focusing on children's fashion, decide to show at the Tokyo Fall/Winter 2025 collections?
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tiit tokyo Fall 2025 – Tokyo Fashion Week
18 April 2025 9:30 PM | No CommentsAccording to the Rakuten Fashion Week TOKYO show notes, for the Fall/Winter 2025 season, the designers were "inspired by the Danish film "When Animals Dream.""
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Sumo: 73rd yokozuna Terunofuji retires, leaves lasting legacy
10 April 2025 11:57 AM | No CommentsThe Mongolian's calm, regal presence in the dohyo will certainly be missed, but there is no rest for the weary.
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Photos: Yousuke Haga – New York Fashion Week Fall 2025
24 March 2025 3:05 AM | No CommentsPhotos from the Yousuke Haga - Asia Fashion Collection runway show in New York.
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Malaysia Archive
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“Crossroads: One Two Jaga” – 2018 Udine Far East Film Festival Review
Alfonse ChiuPosted on June 22, 2018 | No CommentsThe latest by Malaysian screen veteran Namron is an interesting, though occasionally uneven, take on culpability, civil discontent, and the plights of those trying to survive in a broken system. -
刘成达的《口袋里的花》
Christopher BournePosted on October 31, 2016 | No Comments你可以把这部电影看成是马来西亚版的《400击》。 《口袋里的花》，刘成达的处女作，于2008年在美 国亚裔国际电影节上崭露头角，也是目前马来西亚涌 现出来的多产的电影之星中另一个绝好的典范。 -
Stars hit the 2015 Silver Screen Awards red carpet
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on December 10, 2015 | No CommentsFilm talent and VIPs from Asia and beyond attended the 2015 Silver Screen Awards in Singapore, including Michelle Yeoh and David Beckham. -
Namewee’s “Banglasia” – 2015 NYAFF Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on June 30, 2015 | No Comments"Banglasia" is the latest film by Namewee that was promptly banned in his home country of Malaysia. A look at the cast quickly reveals why. -
“Letters From the South” – 2014 Asian American Int’l Film Festival Review
Christopher BournePosted on July 31, 2014 | No CommentsAn eclectic anthology of six short films dramatizes the experiences of the Chinese diaspora in southeast Asia. -
Review: Liew Seng Tat’s “Flower in the Pocket”
Christopher BournePosted on July 6, 2012 | No CommentsLiew Seng Tat’s debut feature, "Flower in the Pocket," is yet another great example of the fecundity of cinematic talent currently coming out of Malaysia. -
![Tan Chui Mui’s remarkable debut feature Love Conquers All (2006) is a beautiful, unsettling, baffling, and subtly surreal work that confirms the considerable talent to be found in contemporary Malaysian cinema. […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Love-Conquers-All-2-115x115.jpg "Review: Tan Chui Mui’s “Love Conquers All”")
Review: Tan Chui Mui’s “Love Conquers All”
Christopher BournePosted on November 11, 2011 | No CommentsTan Chui Mui’s remarkable debut feature Love Conquers All (2006) is a beautiful, unsettling, baffling, and subtly surreal work that confirms the considerable talent to be found in contemporary Malaysian cinema. […] -
Yeo Joon Han and Peter Davis “Sell Out!” Q&A – 2011 NYAFF
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on July 5, 2011 | No CommentsPart-musical, part-social commentary on Malaysia, and part-cynical view of capitalism, the duo talk about how difficult it was to get their film screened. -
![The title of this 2006 film from Malaysian filmmaker James Lee could easily serve as that of a grand romantic epic, or perhaps one of the Korean television dramas extolled […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Before_We_Fall_In_Love_Again_4-115x115.jpg "Review: James Lee’s “Before We Fall in Love Again”")
Review: James Lee’s “Before We Fall in Love Again”
Christopher BournePosted on July 1, 2011 | No CommentsThe title of this 2006 film from Malaysian filmmaker James Lee could easily serve as that of a grand romantic epic, or perhaps one of the Korean television dramas extolled […] -
![The 15th edition of the Pusan (now Busan) International Film Festival, the largest film festival in Asia, was a transitional year in many senses. First, Kim Dong-ho, the long-time founder […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/13-assassins-115x115.jpg "The best films of the 2010 Pusan International Film Festival")
The best films of the 2010 Pusan International Film Festival
Christopher BournePosted on August 31, 2010 | No CommentsThe 15th edition of the Pusan (now Busan) International Film Festival, the largest film festival in Asia, was a transitional year in many senses. First, Kim Dong-ho, the long-time founder […]