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Recent Posts
- May Kamaka wins the Miss Chinatown Hawaii 2026 Pageant
- M+ host of Guo Pei’s first major fashion exhibition in East Asia
- Photos: G-STAR “Anatomic Denim” F/W 2025 collection & Denim Gorilla
- MLB: Dodgers 7, Reds 0 (Aug. 25, 2025) – Shohei tutors Teoscar?
- MLB: Dodgers 7, Reds 0 (Aug. 25, 2025) – V of BTS throws opening pitch
- MLB: Dodgers 5, Reds 1 (Aug. 27, 2025) – Ohtani records first win as a Dodgers pitcher
- Another gold medal, another world record for Mondo Duplantis
- In what turns out to be Son’s Tottenham farewell tour, Spurs beat Arsenal in Hong Kong
- “A Samurai in Time” – 2025 Japan Cuts Film Review
- Takashi Murakami was everywhere at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
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Film Archive
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Erik Shirai’s “The Birth of Saké” – 2015 Tribeca Film Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on June 22, 2015 | No CommentsA startlingly intimate view of a little-known craft, “The Birth of Saké” details the arduous production of the Japanese beverage at a traditional brewery. -
“Snow on the Blades” – 2015 Japan Cuts Film Review
Rex BaylonPosted on June 21, 2015 | No Comments"Snow on the Blades" (柘榴坂の仇討) is a jidai-geki film that has become the norm for far too long. Its gravest sin is its utter lack of dramatic conflict. -
“Round Trip Heart” – 2015 Japan Cuts Film Review
Rex BaylonPosted on June 19, 2015 | No CommentsYuki Tanada’s eighth feature is a quaint unassuming road trip picture that that barely makes an impression on the viewer after the end credits begin to roll. -
“Meeting Dr. Sun” – 2015 NYAFF Review
Rex BaylonPosted on June 18, 2015 | No Comments"Meeting Dr. Sun" is a subversive film whose acerbic wit illustrates how the 99% will rise up and easily steal back what was rightfully taken from them. -
“Belladonna of Sadness” – 2015 Japan Cuts Film Review
Rex BaylonPosted on June 14, 2015 | No CommentsThe third picture in the Animerama trilogy, "Belladonna of Sadness" (哀しみのベラドンナ, 1973) blew away the established aesthetic and thematic norms of the time. -
“Strayer’s Chronicle” – 2015 Japan Cuts Film Review
Rex BaylonPosted on June 13, 2015 | No Comments"Strayer's Chronicle" is an empty husk that has all the requisite parts of an entertaining comic book movie, but doesn’t even manage to be interesting. -
Film Review: Dante Lam’s “That Demon Within” (魔警)
Rex BaylonPosted on June 12, 2015 | No CommentsThe world that Dante Lam creates in "That Demon Within" is a bleak, oppressive one. Bad men are worse than we thought and good guys are tragic heroes. -
Film Review: “Neko Samurai ～Samurai ♥ Cat～” (猫侍)
Rex BaylonPosted on June 10, 2015 | No CommentsAs a cat lover maybe I am preternaturally disposed to liking this film, but so what? Yoshitaka Yamaguchi’s "Neko Samurai" is a pure delight to watch. -
Red carpet: J KOO Fall 2015 – Seoul Fashion Week
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on May 23, 2015 | No CommentsSeveral actors attended the J KOO Fall 2015 runway show at Dongdaemun Design Plaza, including Kim So-eun (김소은) and Lee Hyun-woo (이현우). -
Film Review: Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room”
Jim HigginsPosted on May 11, 2015 | No Comments"The Room" occasionally borders on the surreal. But when looked at objectively, it has a story that seems like a romance novel with the gender roles reversed.