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THE SCOUNDRELS 狂徒 (Huing Tzu-hsuan 2018) From Taiwan, a brutal, tempestuous actioner in which a basketball star enters a life of crime after he is...

WUSHU ORPHAN 武林孤儿 (Huang Huang 2018) A first film set in rural China in the Nineties. A naive young man with not much in the way of teaching...

THE GUN 銃 (Masaharu Take 2018) This psychological thriller from Japan about an aimless university student who finds a pistol and becomes unhinged...

Good. Don't miss Burning. Suburban Birds might be harder to find. I saw it in ND/NF this year and it crept up on me.

Thanks for the recommendations. I'll definitely see "Long Day's" some day soon.

CHEN XIAOMING: IF YOU ARE HAPPY 学区房72小时 In China, parents buy homes in certain school districts at outrageous prices just to ensure a good...

KEN EGUCHI: THE FABLE (2019) The Fable is a legendary yakuza hit man, equal to none. His boss suddenly orders him and his sultry associate...

KEN CHIKAURA: COMPLICITY (2018) LU YULAI IN COMPLICITY Being Chinese in Japan In this painfully touching tale of illegal immigration,...

HUNG TZU-HSUAN: THE SCOUNDRELS/狂徒 (2018) WU KANG-REN IN THE SCOUNDRELS The mayhem and the speculation It would seem strange for a fan...

HUANG HUANG: WUSHU ORPHAN 武林孤儿 (2018) HOU YUNXIAO IN WUSHU ORPHAN Yearnin' learnin' In the late ’90s, the clean cut geeky Lu Youhong...

The 2019 NYAFF Filmleaf Festival Coverage reviews begin with: SAMURAI MARATHON (Bernard Rose 2018) A Japanese samurai movie directed by a Brit...

MASAHARU TAKE: THE GUN 銃 (2018) LILY FRANKY AND NIJIRO MURAKAMI IN THE GUN Chekhov's gun rule observed One senses a nihilistic streak in...

PEMA TSEDEN: JINPA (2018) Stoic truck driver Jinpa picks up a silver-dagger-wearing hitchhiker in the desolate Kekexili plateau. The...

BERNARD ROSE: SAMURAI MARATHON (2019) TAKERU SATOH IN SAMURAI MARATHON Runners world, Tokugawa style It's difficult to know what to...

....... NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL at Lincoln Center JUNE 28 - JULY 14, 2019 The Films. (These are short descriptions. For longer ones...

FULL LINEUP (53) Titles in bold are included in the Main Competition; the list excludes the secret screening. More detailed list of films H.E.R.E...

PARASITE Ash Is Purest White/江湖儿女 (Jia Zhang-ke 2018) Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bi Gan) Suburban Birds//郊区的鸟/Jiao qu de niao (Qiu Sheng...

just kidding ;-) There were 3 Asian films that were widely recommended in 2018. I listed 1) "Burning" and didn't think 2) "Shoplifters" was quite as...

No, Asian films are ugly.

You're welcome, and thanks for your list. I particularly agree on Zama, Cold War, and Foxtrot. I can see the unique qualities of Sunset, Beale...

Thanks Chris and Tab for the excellent reviews of movies released in 2018. As far as 2019, by far the best film i've seen is Sunset, from hungary. i...

SAMURAI MARATHON NYAFF (June 28-July 14) Press release. Here are some excerpts from the press release giving some of the main featured events....