COMPLICITY (Ken Chikaura 2018)
Complicity is a touching, intimate study of illegal immigration - of a young Chinese man into Japan. He takes a false identity for work and becomes like family at a rural soba shop. But his status is continually in danger. Actor Lu Yulai is excellent in the lead, and ably backed by the veteran Japanese actor Tatsuya Fuji.
NYAFF showtime:
Saturday, June 29
1:00 PM
Walter Reade Theater
THE FABLE (Ken Ebuchi 2019)
A film from manga about a legendary hit man, Sato, whose boss puts him on furlough for a year to learn to "act normal." This of course could never work. A pretty woman menaced by an egotistical young ex-con (played by the extraordinary Yūya Yagira, who won Best Actor at Cannes at the age of 14 for Koreeda's Nobody Knows), forces Sato to act.
NYFF showtime
Tuesday, July 2
6:00 PM
Walter Reade Theater
IF YOU ARE HAPPY 学区房72小时 (Chen Xiaoming 2019) (2019)
Social ambition and real estate maneuvering in contemporary Shanghai. A man is willing to stop at nothing to get his little girl into a better school. A film permeated by soullessness.
NYFF showtime
Wednesday, July 3
7:30 PM
Walter Reade Theater
DARE TO STOP US (Kazuya Shiraishi 2018)
Dare to Stop Us 止められるか、俺たちを is the portrait of a moment and a group, the filmmaking team of Kōji Wakamatsu, a provocative Japanese film director, former yakuza, who made Pink eigu porn film but also radical political films. This is about Megumi, a young woman who comes to work there in the late Sixties, and the men she worked with, slept with, and got drunk with. Atmospheric study of a unique group at a special time.
NYAFF showtime:
Showtimes
Thursday, July 4
3:00 PM
June 28 – July 11
New York Asian Film Festival
The New York Asian Film Festival begins today at 7 p.m. in Walter Reade Theater with Samurai Marathon.
Reviews will be coneinually added. The available Filmleaf Festival Coverage secteion reviews of the 2019 NYAFF so far:The 18th edition of the popular annual festival kicks off tonight with the North American premiere of Bernard Rose’s star-studded Samurai Marathon. NYAFF continues with a jam-packed lineup showcasing the most exciting action, comedy, drama, thriller, romance, horror, and art-house films from East Asia, featuring tons of premieres, sneak previews, in-person appearances, a free master class with Yuen Woo-ping on July 2, and much more.
LINKS TO THE REVIEWS:
Complicity (Ken Chikaura 2018)
Dare to Stop Us 止められるか、俺たちを, (Kazuya Shiraishi 2018)
Fable, The (Ken Eguchi 2019)
Gun, The 銃 / Jū (Masaharu Take 2018)
If You Are Happy 学区房72小时 (Chen Ziaoming 2018)
Jinpa (Pema Tseden 2018)
Money (Park Noo-ri 2019)
Samurai Marathon (Bernard Rose 2019) Opening Night Film
Scoundrels, The 狂徒 (Hung Tzu-hsuan 2018)
Walk with Me (Ryon Lee 2019)
Winter After Winter (xing Jian 2018)
Wushu Orphan 武林孤儿 (Huang Huang 2018)
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WALK WITH ME 雙魂 (Ryon Lee 2019)
A shy, bespectacled young garment factory worker is menaced by everyone, boss, father, random men, querulous mom, takes refuge in a doll that may contain the malevolent ghost of her dead little brother. It's a horror movie, the Malaysian-born screenwriter-director's fourth, heavy on the melodrama but gentle with the gore, and with nice colors, green and blue predominating.
In the New York Asian Film Festival, at Lincoln Center and 23rd St., which is now under way. It began last night.
NYAFF Showtime:
Thursday, July 4
10:00 PM
Nana Komatsu (Princess Yuri in Samurai Marathon) received the 2019 Screen
International Rising Star Award
WINTER AFTER WINTER (Xian Jian 2019)
The title is apt because the snow never goes out of this chilly picture. It's a depiction in intense black and white of life in Manchuria in WWII when the Japanese are desperately trying to hold onto remnants of their empire. Definitely another example like Pema Tseden's Jinpa of "slow cinema." Not for the impatient.
Showing in the NYAFF
NYAFF showtime:
Friday, July 5
3:00 PM
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