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World premiere at the New York Asian Film Festival as its Closing Night Film.

ERIK MATTI: BUYBUST (2018)

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ANNE CURTIS IN BUYBUST

World premiere at...

BONGKOD BENCHARONGKUL: SAD BEAUTY (2018)

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FLORENCE FAIVRE AND PAKKAWADEE PENGSUWAN IN SAD BEAUTY

Extremes of friendship

Bencharongkul's Sad Beauty...

KANATA WOLF: SMOKIN' ON THE MOON (2017)

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RYO NARITA, ARATA IURA IN SMIOKIN' ON THE MOON

Japanese ganja bromance

Whether you take the action in...

SHINSUKE SATO: INUYASHIKI (2018)

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TAKERU SATOH IN INUYASHIKI

Dangerous youth

With the story of the meek salaryman or hirashain, Inuyashiki, and the...

ERIK MATTI: ON THE JOB (2013)

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JOEL TORRE IN ON THE JOB

Training days

Erik Matti of the Philippines is a leading figure of Southeast Asian genre...

YANG YA-CHE: THE BOLD, THE CORRUPT, AND THE BEAUTIFUL (2017)

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KARA WAI, KE-XI WU AND VICKY CHEN IN THE BOLD, THE CORRUPT, AND THE BEAUTIFUL

Chinese...

DAIHACHI YOSHIDA: THE SCYTHIAN LAMB/HITSUJI NO KI (2017)

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RYOHEI MATSUDA IN THE SCYTHIAN LAMB

Rich ingredients, small pot

The premise of The...

KIM HONG-SUN: THE AGE OF BLOOD/YEOOKMO - BANRANUI SIDAE (2017)

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JUNG HAE-IN IN AGE OF BLOOD

Historical pleasures

This historical fight movie from...

MALENE CHOI: THE RETURN (2018)

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THOMAS HWAN IN THE RETURN

Root canal

This quiet, haunting hybrid of documentary and fiction was made by Danish-Korean...

CHAPMAN TO: THE EMPTY HANDS (2017)

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STEPHY TANG IN THE EMPTY HANDS

A girl can't be herself

In his second outing as a director, in which he also...

JEONG GA-YOUNG: HIT THE NIGHT (2017)

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PARK JONG-HWAN AND JEONG GA-YOUNG IN HIG THE NIGHT

Boy hunting in the rough

Jeong Ga-young is most known in...

WILSON YIP: PARADOX (2017)

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CHRIS COLLINS AND LOUIS KOO IN PARADOX

A trip to Thailand

Paradox is as adept as many other Hong Kong action movies,...

XIN YUKUN: WRATH OF SILENCE/BAO LIE WU SHEN (2018)

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JIANG WU IN WRATH OF SILENCE WITH "A SQUIFFY HAIRDO" (ELLEY) - A MARCEL WAVE, A RURAL LUXE LIKE...

JHOU ZIYANG: OLD BEAST/LAO SHOU (2017)

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TU MEN IN OLD BEAST

Family relations

Lao Yang (Tu Men), the center of this tale, is a despicable...

JIANG JIACHEN: LOOKING FOR LUCKY

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DING XINHE (LEFT) IN LOOKING FOR LUCKY

Getting ahead and falling behind

Looking for Lucky is a Chinese...

ISAO YUKISADA: RIVER'S EDGE (2018)F

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FUMI NIKAIDO AND RYÔ YOSHIKAWA IN RIVER'S EDGE

Angsty and chic Japanese high school drama set in 1994

Ichiru...

TREB MONTERAS (ALBERTO MONTERAS II): RESPETO (2017)

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ABRA IN RESPETO

The Philippines seeks a voice and finds a cycle of violence

Respeto begins as a...

JEON GO-WOON: MICROHABITAT/SO-GONG-NYEO (2017)

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AHN JAE-HONG AND ESOM IN MICROHABITAT

A winter's tale

Microhabitat is a Korean debut feature by a...

NAM RON: CROSSROADS: ONE TWO JAGA (2018)

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Eeny meeny, mene mene

Malaysian filmmaker Nam Ron’s third feature is a messy little movie all seen through...

SHIN'ICHIRÔ UEDA: ONE CUT OF THE DEAD//KAMERA O TOMERU NO! (2017)

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HARUMI SYUHAMA IN ONE CUT OF THE DEAD

TRAILER

Careful with that axe!

This...

SHIRAISHI KAZUYA: THE BLOOD OF WOLVES (2018)

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TORI MATSUZAKA AND KÔJI YAKUSHO IN THE BLOOD OF WOLVES

An old genre reappears

"The yakuza movie...

DOUG YUE: THE LOOMING STORM (2017)

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DUAN YIHONG IN THE LOOMING STORM

Theme: "A man who is laid off from a steel factory desperately wants to chase a...

NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2018

FULL LINEUP (58)
Titles in bold are included in the Main Competition; the list excludes the surprise screening.
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CHINA (7)
Co-presented with Confucius...

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NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL at Lincoln Center JUNE 29 - JULY 15, 2018

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