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MOON SUNG-HO: FIVE MILLION DOLLAR LIFE 五億円のじんせい (2019)

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AYAMU MOCHIZUKI IN FIVE MILLION DOLLAR LIFE

A boy who is a magnet for kindness

The young...

YI OK-SEOP: MAGGIE 메기 (2018)

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KOO KYO-HWAN IN MAGGIE

The fragility of trust

This first feature film uses as its springboard an X-ray photograph of...

BAI XUE: THE CROSSING 过春天 (2018)

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HUANG YAO IN THE CROSSING

Coming of age dangerously, between Hong Kong and China

Cath Clark of the The Guardian...

LE VAN KIET: FURIE/ HAI PHUONG(2019)

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VERONICA NGO IN FURIE

Vietnamese superstar Veronica Ngo headlines as a mother looking for her kidnapped daughter...

WANG LINA: A FIRST FAREWELL 第一次的离别 (2018)


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KALBINUR AND ISA IN A FIRST FAREWELL

Growing up and saying goodbye

The Uyghur people are a persecuted...

KIM YOON-SEOK: ANOTHER CHILD 미성년(2019)

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KIM HYE-UN AND PARK SE-JIN IN ANOTHER CHILD

Two teenage girls struggle through their dysfunctional parents'...

KATSUMI NOJIRI: LYING TO MOM 鈴木家の嘘 (2018)

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An unpalatable death in the family

"The Suzuki Family Lies" is the more discreet Japanese title of this...

LEE CHEUK-PAN: G AFFAIRS (G SAAT) G殺 (2019)


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HANNA CHAN IN G AFFAIRS

Hong Kong through a glass, darkly

This is one of those disapproving visions...

SABU: MR. LONG ミスター・ロン (RYU SAN) (2017)

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CHANG CHEN IN MR. LONG

Strong silent type

Mr. Long is a unique, perplexing, and rather uneven kind of...

LEON LE: SONG LANG (2018)

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ISAAC AND LIEN BINH PHAT IN SONG LANG

Gorgeous Vietnamese melodrama of sadness, loneliness and art

"Song Lang takes...

AMP WONG, JI ZHAO: WHITE SNAKE 白蛇：緣起 (2019)

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WHITE SNAKE AND HER SISTER VERTA IN WHITE SNAKE

A big Chinese animation sweetens an ancient legend
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KIM TAE-KYUN: DARK FIGURE OF CRIME 암수살인 (2018)

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KIM YOON-SEOK, JU JI-HOON IN DARK FIGURE OF CRIME

The crazy killer and the dedicated investigator
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PARK NOO-RI: MONEY 돈 (2019)

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RYU JEON-YEOL AND YOO JI-TAE IN MONEY

Temptation

Money is a deliciously fresh, and a little raw, depiction of fast...

ZHANG JIAJIA: SEE YOU TOMORROW 擺渡人 (2016)

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TONY CHIU-WAI LEUNG AND TAKESHI KANESHIRO IN SEE YOU TOMORROW


[IMDb:]
The story follows Chen Mo (Tony...

XING JIAN: WINTER AFTER WINTER (2019)

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AN EXTERIOR SCENE FROM WINER AFTER WINTER

Elephants sitting still?

Xing Jiang reportedly debuted with an...

RYON LEE: WALK WITH ME 雙魂 (2019)

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MICHELLE WAI IN WALK WITH ME

The horror of domestic life and a shitty job

The "legendary" and much-awarded...

KAZUYA SHIRAISHI: DARE TO STOP US 止められるか、俺たちを(2018)

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WAKAMATSU'S CREW AT WORK IN DARE TO STOP US; MEGUMI (MUGI KADAWAKI), LEFT

A radical Japanese...

CHEN XIAOMING: IF YOU ARE HAPPY 学区房72小时 (2019)

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Bourgeois stress, Shanghai style

This film's ironic (English only) title comes from a relentlessly...

KEN EGUCHI: THE FABLE (2019)

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YUYA YAGIRA AND JUN'ICHI OKADA IN THE FABLE

Being "normal" is too difficult for a yakuza hit man

This wildly absurd,...

KEI CHIKAURA: COMPLICITY (2018)

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LU YULAI IN COMPLICITY

Being Chinese in Japan

In this painfully touching tale of illegal immigration, Chen Liang...

HUNG TZU-HSUAN: THE SCOUNDRELS 狂徒 (2018)

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WU KANG-REN IN THE SCOUNDRELS

The mayhem and the speculation

It would seem strange for a fan of Edward...

HUANG HUANG: WUSHU ORPHAN 武林孤儿 (2018)

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HOU YUNXIAO IN WUSHU ORPHAN

Yearnin' learnin'

In the late ’90s, the clean cut geeky Lu Youhong (Noah Jin)...

MASAHARU TAKE: THE GUN 銃 (2018)

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LILY FRANKY AND NIJIRO MURAKAMI IN THE GUN

Chekhov's gun rule observed

One senses a nihilistic streak in...

PEMA TSEDEN: JINPA (2018)

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[NYAFF blurb.]
Stoic truck driver Jinpa picks up a silver-dagger-wearing hitchhiker in the desolate Kekexili plateau. The...

BERNARD ROSE: SAMURAI MARATHON (2019)

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TAKERU SATOH IN SAMURAI MARATHON

Runners world, Tokugawa style

It's difficult to know what to make of this...