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LOUIS KOO IN TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS:WALLED IN

SOI CHEANG: TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN (2024)

Artfully cluttered everyman epic in a...

YANG SHUPENG: PATTAYA HEAT (2023

Pattaya Heat
ปิดเมืองล่า
A glorious ensemble of Thai stars Ananda Everingham (Shutter), Thaneth Warakulnukroh (Bad Genius, among others) bring their A-game to...

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AUDREY LIN, TERRENCE LAU CHUN-HIN IN TROUBLE GIRL

CHIN CHUA-HUA: TROUBLE GIRL (2023)

A disjointed movie about irresponsible adults and a...

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PEMA TSEDEN: SNOW LEOPARD (2023)

Everyday problems and the eternal in Tibet

It's hard to know sometimes what is going on in Tibetan filmmaker...

LIN JIANJIE: BRIEF HISTORY OF A FAMILY (2023)

New York Premiere
Brief History of a Family
家庭简史
Lin Jianjie's gut-punch of a debut rips the Band-Aid off the wounds of post one-child policy...

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CHAYANIT CHASANGAVEJ IN SUPPOSED

THANKORN PONIGSWAN: SUPPOSED (2023)

Wild for to hold

Supposed is a sort of dating app rom com involving a...

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ZU FENG IN A LONG SHOT

GAO PENG: A LONG SHOT (2023)

Impressive debut about China in chaos on the brink

The early scenes of this film,...

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LEADING LEE: THE TIME OF HUAN NAN (2023)

TRAILER

This is a woozy, beautiful Taiwan film full of "BL" content, meaning soft core gayness, and...

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FANDY FAN (AS A-XIANG), TOP, AND TERRANCE (CHUN-HIM) LAU (TIAN-LU), BOTTOM, IN A BALLOON'S LANDING

ANGEL TENG: A BALLOON'S LANDING (2024)
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BAI RUN MIN, AKIO CHEN IN OLD FOX

HSIAO YA-CHUAN: OLD FOX (2023)

Boy learns about inequality from sly local boss in a Dickensian coming of age...

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JUSTIN LIN, YANG LI-YIN, ESTHER LIU, A SETTER, AND A WHITE COCKREL IN SALLI

LIEN CHIEN-HUNG: SALLI (2023)

Chicken farmer in rural Taiwan is lured...

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JUAN KARLOS LABAJO IN WHEN ALL THIS IS OVER

KEVIN MAYUGA: WHEN THIS IS ALL OVER (2023)

Rampant covid self indulgence, self-questioning, and class...

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CARLO AQUINO IN THE MISSING

CARL JOSEPH E. PAPA: THE MISSING (2023)

Through delusion to healing

In this unusual animated film, which was the...

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JUN SAITO, GO AYANO IN LET'S GO KARAOKE!

NOBUHIRO YAMASHITA: LET'S GO KARAOKE! (2023)

Choir kid mentors Yakuza mensch

This is a coming of age...

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NIKKI HSIEH, AUSTIN LIN IN SUFFOCATING LOVE

LIAO MING-YI: SUFFOCATING LOVE (2023)

A rom-com-style movie that drifts into the surreal

The...

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HWARNG WERN-YING: BE WITH ME (2023)

Who are we being with?

This film which is indebted to the filmmaker's mentor Hou Hsiao-hsien depicts a...

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CHEUNG TIN-FU,SANDRA NG IN LOVE LIES

HO MIU-KI: LOVE LIES (2023)

The long tease of an online romance becomes a charmingly inverted rom-com
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CHOW KAM WING: FOR ALICE (2024)

Some old tunes played again

Some old themes here. No harm in that, and this aging actor and fresh young one go...

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MASAKI OKADA AND JINSEI HAMURA IN GOLD BOY

SHUSUKE KANEKO: GOLD BOY (2023)

The bad kids

There is certainly a special queasy pleasure in...

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WANG YICHUN: THE ESCAPING MAN (2023)

About a boy

Wang Yichun made an outstanding debut with her uncompromisingly dark 2015 small-town procedural,...

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LIANG MING: CAREFREE DAYS (2023)

The excitement of burgeoning doom

Many of the admiring things Jessica Kiang says in her Variety review of actor...

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TSUYOSHI KUSANAGI IN BUSHIDO

KAZUYA SHIRAISHI: BUSHIDO (2023)

A shamed samurai regains his honor

We've previously reviewed two other Kazuya...

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GENERAL FILM FORUM SECTION

NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL JULY 12-22, 2024