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In what turns out to be Son’s Tottenham farewell tour, Spurs beat Arsenal in Hong Kong
05 August 2025 4:59 AM | No CommentsSon Heung-min leaves Tottenham Hotspur having made 333 appearances for the club over 10 seasons.
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“A Samurai in Time” – 2025 Japan Cuts Film Review
16 July 2025 12:42 PM | No CommentsTime travel is a well-worn trope, but there is a reason that the low-budget “A Samurai in Time” managed to win Best Film honors at the Japan Academy Film Prize.
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Takashi Murakami was everywhere at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
29 June 2025 11:58 AM | No CommentsThe Japanese artist, both in physical presence and in spirit, seamlessly crossed over to the worlds of art, fashion, sports and even food.
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Paris 2024: Gymnastics – U.S. women victorious in “Redemption Tour”
29 June 2025 2:46 AM | No CommentsThere should have been no doubt: the U.S. women were the favorites to win the Olympic gold. And yet there was, stemming from what happened in Tokyo.
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Paris 2024: U.S. women hang on to win eighth straight Olympic basketball gold
23 June 2025 11:54 AM | No CommentsThe U.S. women's team held off France, 67-66, at Bercy Arena.
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South Korea Archive
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![The title of Lee Joon-ik’s The Happy Life at first seems like a bitterly ironic jape, since the lives we see on display seem to be anything but. Ki-young (Jung Jin-young), […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Review: Lee Joon-ik’s “The Happy Life”")
Review: Lee Joon-ik’s “The Happy Life”
Christopher BournePosted on March 16, 2012 | No CommentsThe title of Lee Joon-ik’s The Happy Life at first seems like a bitterly ironic jape, since the lives we see on display seem to be anything but. Ki-young (Jung Jin-young), […] -
![Tale of Cinema, Hong’s sixth feature, is an incredibly witty and playful meditation on the confluence of life and cinema. Over the course of twelve films, Hong has […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/TaleOfCinema_01-115x115.jpg "“Love Will Tear Us Apart” Review: Hong Sangsoo’s “Tale of Cinema”")
“Love Will Tear Us Apart” Review: Hong Sangsoo’s “Tale of Cinema”
Christopher BournePosted on March 7, 2012 | No CommentsTale of Cinema, Hong’s sixth feature, is an incredibly witty and playful meditation on the confluence of life and cinema. Over the course of twelve films, Hong has […] -
Film Review: So Yong Kim’s “Treeless Mountain”
Christopher BournePosted on March 2, 2012 | No CommentsSo Yong Kim's ineffably lovely second feature "Treeless Mountain" focuses on two sisters and their increasingly precarious existence. -
Review: Park Jin-pyo’s “Voice of a Murderer”
Christopher BournePosted on February 10, 2012 | No CommentsThe chilling docudrama Voice of a Murderer is one of the best films by Park Jin-pyo, one of Korea’s most interesting directors. His previous features Too Young to Die […] -
Review: Yang Joo-nam’s “Sweet Dream”
Christopher BournePosted on January 13, 2012 | No CommentsNot only a potent melodrama, but a valuable visual documentary record of Seoul in the 1930’s, "Sweet Dream" is a richly textured gem well worth seeking out. -
![If a film festival programmer asked “Hostel” director and “Inglourious Basterds” actor Eli Roth to choose a title for the program, he or she would probably expect a horror movie […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/eli-roth-115x115.jpg "Singafest brings out “Hostel” director Eli Roth’s love for Asian films")
Singafest brings out “Hostel” director Eli Roth’s love for Asian films
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on December 7, 2011 | No CommentsIf a film festival programmer asked “Hostel” director and “Inglourious Basterds” actor Eli Roth to choose a title for the program, he or she would probably expect a horror movie […] -
Review: Lee Myung-se’s “Gagman”
Christopher BournePosted on December 2, 2011 | No Comments“We live in an age without masterpieces.” So laments Lee Jong-sae (Ahn Sung-ki), the stand-up comedian and aspiring film director who is the central figure of Gagman (1988), the debut […] -
![One of the best, and certainly most visually impressive, cinematic depictions of the Korean War, Spring in My Hometown (1998) takes a very different approach from other films on this subject. […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Spring-in-My-Hometown-1-115x115.jpg "Review: Lee Kwang-mo’s “Spring in My Hometown”")
Review: Lee Kwang-mo’s “Spring in My Hometown”
Christopher BournePosted on November 4, 2011 | No CommentsOne of the best, and certainly most visually impressive, cinematic depictions of the Korean War, Spring in My Hometown (1998) takes a very different approach from other films on this subject. […] -
![Shin Sang-ok’s 1960 feature A Romantic Papa was the first production from his newly established company, Shin Films. Shin had already established himself as one of the most […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Romantic+Papa+001_0001-115x115.jpg "Review: Shin Sang-ok’s “A Romantic Papa”")
Review: Shin Sang-ok’s “A Romantic Papa”
Christopher BournePosted on October 14, 2011 | No CommentsShin Sang-ok’s 1960 feature A Romantic Papa was the first production from his newly established company, Shin Films. Shin had already established himself as one of the most […] -
![In an early scene in Secret Sunshine, a pharmacist is attempting to persuade Shin-ae (Jeon Do-yeon), a widowed piano teacher who has come to the town of Miryang with her […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/secret-sunshine-poster-115x115.jpg "Film Review: Lee Chang-dong’s “Secret Sunshine”")
Film Review: Lee Chang-dong’s “Secret Sunshine”
Christopher BournePosted on August 24, 2011 | No CommentsIn an early scene in Secret Sunshine, a pharmacist is attempting to persuade Shin-ae (Jeon Do-yeon), a widowed piano teacher who has come to the town of Miryang with her […]