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Recent Posts
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- 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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Review: Kazuo Kuroki’s “The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya”
Christopher BournePosted on June 23, 2012 | No Comments"The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya" is a quiet, gently humorous, and poignant World War II-set story that evokes the home dramas that were a specialty of Ozu. -
Film Review: Takashi Miike’s “Dead or Alive”
Christopher BournePosted on June 15, 2012 | No CommentsThis yakuza thriller by Japanese cult director Takashi Miike is a letter-perfect illustration of the saying, "Nothing succeeds like excess." -
Review: Naomi Kawase’s “The Mourning Forest”
Christopher BournePosted on June 8, 2012 | No Comments"The Mourning Forest" expresses a very animist sensibility, in that the natural world, and associated sounds and space, are given great priority. -
![Leave it to Johnnie To and his great collaborator Wai Ka-fai to breathe new life into that most shopworn and exhausted of genres: the police detective story. Mad Detective was a […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Review: Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai’s “Mad Detective”")
Review: Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai’s “Mad Detective”
Christopher BournePosted on June 1, 2012 | No CommentsLeave it to Johnnie To and his great collaborator Wai Ka-fai to breathe new life into that most shopworn and exhausted of genres: the police detective story. Mad Detective was a […] -
Review: Yoshihiro Nishimura’s “Tokyo Gore Police”
Christopher BournePosted on May 25, 2012 | No CommentsAs the title promises, in "Tokyo Gore Police" there is no chance that you will instead be confronted with, say, a sensitive Merchant Ivory-type romance. -
![A Michael Haneke film on acid, Kim Jin-won’s The Butcher is a relentless 75-minute assault on the senses. The premise is as simple as it is brutal: a group […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/butcher01-115x115.jpg "Review: Kim Jin-won’s “The Butcher”")
Review: Kim Jin-won’s “The Butcher”
Christopher BournePosted on May 18, 2012 | No CommentsA Michael Haneke film on acid, Kim Jin-won’s The Butcher is a relentless 75-minute assault on the senses. The premise is as simple as it is brutal: a group […] -
DPRK Film Review: Kim Kil-in’s “Hong Kil Dong”
Christopher BournePosted on May 11, 2012 | No Comments"Hong Kil Dong" is a rather diverting, if a little creaky, North Korean martial-arts action flick surprisingly free of overt ideological content. -
Review: Jessica Oreck’s “Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo”
Christopher BournePosted on May 4, 2012 | No Comments"Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo" is not a cult science-fiction film, but an impressionistic, non-linear documentary exploring Japan’s obsession with insects. -
![Lee Joon-ik’s filmography includes both period films (Once Upon a Time in a Battlefield, The King and the Clown, Battlefield Heroes) and contemporary music-themed films (Radio Star, The Happy Life). […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Sunny+5-115x115.jpg "Review: Lee Joon-ik’s “Sunny”")
Review: Lee Joon-ik’s “Sunny”
Christopher BournePosted on April 27, 2012 | No CommentsLee Joon-ik’s filmography includes both period films (Once Upon a Time in a Battlefield, The King and the Clown, Battlefield Heroes) and contemporary music-themed films (Radio Star, The Happy Life). […] -
Review: Tsai Ming-liang’s “I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone”
Christopher BournePosted on April 20, 2012 | No CommentsSimilar to Tsai's other features, "I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone" explores the actions of near-mute, lonely souls searching for connection.