Organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Korean Film Council, The Newest Tiger: 60 Years of South Korean Cinema shows almost 50 Korean films such as Aimless Bullet(1961), Low Life(2004), etc. at the WALTER READE THEATER from Nov 12 to Dec 7, 2004. Don't miss this biggest chance to contact Korean film history. [more]

The 9th Pusan International Film Festival(PIFF) runs Oct. 7-15 this year, and is accompanied by the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP), the Busan Film Commission and Industry Showcase on Oct. 7-9. More than 5,000 guests attended BIFCom in 2003, and organizers said they expect a 20% increase this year with 60 participants from 15 countries (from The Hollywood Reporter). [more]

At 61st Venice Film Festival, Bin Jip by Korean director Kim Ki-duk wins Special Award for Best Direction and Studio Ghibli's Howl's Moving Castle wins Osella Award which is dedicated to technical achievement (2004 September). [more]

Grand Prix to Old Boy by Park Chan-wook, Best actress award to Meggi Cheung in Clean and Best actor award to the 14-year old Yuuya Yagira for his role in Nobody Knows directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda at 2004 Cannes Film Festival [more]

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (East Coast Premier) May 13, 7:00pm and 9:00pm at Tribeca Grand Hotel Screening Room. FREE ADMISSION - must RSVP to film@newyork-tokyo.com

Meet lots of Asian feature films, including six films of New Korean Cinema section, at 2004 Philadelphia Film Festival (April 8-21) [more]

Korean director Kim Ki-Duk ( director of The Isle) won the Silver Bear for best director for his work on Samaria (aka Samaritan Girl) at the 54th annual Berlin Film Festival on Feb. 14 2004 [more]

PTU (Hong Kong, 2003) Johnnie To in Person at the James Bridges Theater in Melnitz Hall, UCLA (Nov. 15) [more]

Suzuki/Fukasaku Mini Series at the Japan Society Film Center (Oct. 17-27) [more]

Yasujiro Ozu: A Centennial Celebration in New York City (Oct.4 -Nov.5, 2003) [more]

PIFF(Pusan International Film Festival) 2003 (Oct.2-10) Pusan, South Korea "A Window on Asian Cinema" introducing films representing Asia will be inviting 29 films from 17 different Asian countries. [more]

VIFF 2003 (Vacouver International Film Festival) Sept. 25- Oct.10 Dragons & Tigers: A Tale of Two Sisters, The Only Sons, My Korean Cinema & many other Asian films [more]

Films By Japanese Women at Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago (Sept. 3 -29) [more]

YIDFF 2003, "New Asian Currents" (Oct. 10 -16, 2003) at Yamagata [more]

Secret Wonderland: New York Korean Film Festival 2003 (Aug.15 - 24) [more]

FantAsia Festival (Jul. 17- Aug. 10, 2003) at Montreal, Canada [more]

the 7th Puchon Fantastic Film Festival at Puchon (South Korea) July 10-19. You will find so many interesting Bollywood, Shaw Brothers, Fukasaku & Korean classic horror movies! [more]

Asian American Film Festival (Jun. 20-29) at the Asia Society and Flushing Town Hall [more]

Memories of Murder(Jun-ho Bong) received the Best Picture [more]

Tribute to Kinji Fukasaku at the Japan Society (NYC) [more]

Entries Invited for Asian Competition - International Film Festival of India -2003 [more]

Asian Film Festival of Dallas (May 22-30): : Spotlight on Miike & Cinema for the Seoul. [more]

2003 Seattle International Film Festival (May 22 - Jun.15) focus on Films of South Korea [more]

Asian Films are Go (May 15-26) at Anthology Film Archives [more]

Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature Film at the Philly film festival. [more]

Donald Ritchie to introduce the film Aiki at the 12th Philadelphia Film Festival (Apr. 3 -16) Also Turning Gate(Sang-soo Hong), Together(Chen Kaige), Dark Water (Hideo Nakata) and Many other Asian Films! [more]

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"Hong Kong honours actors" [more]

Bridging Change In Asia: New York Looks to Korea and Japan at Japan Society (NYC) April 18 - June 6 [more]

Classic, a Korean romantic drama, loved by Yubari [more]

Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhang-ke) opens on Mar. 26 at Cinema Village (NYC) [more]

2003 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (Mar. 6-16) [more]

Dont' miss these fantastic Jia Zhang Ke's films, Platform & Unknown Pleasures (Mar. 7. 28) at Lincon Plaza [more]

Exacting Revenge: A Series of Eight Japanese Films at Columbia Univ. (Feb.3 - Apr. 14) [more]

The Game of Their Lives: a Documentary film about North Korea at NYU Silver Center (Feb.28)

Ice Speed, My Lucky Flower, & Outcast at Asian Cultural Center (Feb. 13, 20, 27) [more]

"A strange, kinky and beautifully photographed fable",The Isle at the Dryden theater (Rochester, NY) [more]

Chi-Hwa-Seon(Im Kwon-taek: Winner of Best Director at Cannes 2002) opens in New York on February 14th. [more]

A Korean Female Filmmaker, Park Chan-Ok's Jealousy is My Middle Name got the Tiger Awards at the 32nd International Film Festival Rotterdam. [more]

Susan Sontag on Japanese Film at the Japan Society in NYC [more]

Kinji Fukasaku(1930 -2003) Died on Jan. 12 [more]

Seafood, Blissfully Yours, Monrak Transistor at the Walter Reade Theater in Feb. [more]

26th Asian American International Film Festival in NYC; Deadline. Feb, 1 [more]

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2003 Opening Call for 2003 Entries [more]

Retrospective of Lee Chang-dong at the Korean Cultural Center (L.A) : Oasis, Green Fish & Peppermint Candy (Jan. 10 -12) [more]

2003 Rotterdam International Film Festival (Jan. 22 - Feb.2): Turning Gate (Sang-soo Hong) & Jealousy is My Middle Name (Chan-wook, Park) [more]

2003 Bangkok International Film Festival (Jan.10-21): Zhang Yimau's Hero [more]

Tokyo FILMeX (Dec.1 - 8) Bright Future (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), Blessing Bell (Sabu), A Snake of June (Shinya Tsukamoto) [more]

City of Sadness, Dandchizake, A Brighter Summer Day at the MOMA Gramercy(Dec. - Jan.) [more]

The Way Home at the Quad Cinema & Devils on the Doorstep at the Film Forum (NYC)

A Window on Asian Cinema, 2002 Pusan International Film Festival (Nov. 14- 23): The Best of Times (Chang Tsao-chi), The Blessing Bell (Sabu), Chicken Heart (Hirosi Shimizu) [more]

The 46th London Film Festival (6 - 21 November 2002) The Best of Times (Meili Shiguang), A Chinese odyssey (Tianxia Wushuang), Monrak Transistor (Pen-ek Ratanaruang) [more]

the Hawaii International Film Festival (Nov.1 -10, 2002): a focus on Korean cinema, YMCA Baseball Team (Kim Hyun Seok), The Way Home (Lee Jung Hyang) [more] [more]

Contemporary Classics of Korean Cinema (Nov. 1-3) on USC campus, featuring Chihwaseon, Waikiki Brothers & The Foul King [more]

2002 Gwangju International Film Festival (South Korea, Oct. 25 - 31): Unloved (Manda Kunitoshi), Hanako (Sato Makoto), Woman Called Abe Sada (Tanaka Noboru), Way to Home (Lee Man-hee) [more]

2002 Tokyo International Film Festival (Oct. 23 - Nov. 4): Another Battle-Conspiracy, Blue Gate Crossing, The Graduation [more]

Musa, the Warrior (Kim Sung-su) at American Museum of the Moving Image (Oct. 25) [more]

Matsuri: Festivals in Japanese Cinema(Oct. 25 - Dec.13) at the Japan Society (NYC) [more]

Asian Screening Marathons (Sat. Fall 2002, UCSC Campus): Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Chang-dong Lee, Ki-duk Kim, Chan-wook Park, Miike Takashi, Sun-woo Jang [more]

2002 International Film Festival of India: Falling Stars in the Fall (Wang Ping), Itai Futari (Hisashi Saito) and many other Asian films [more]

Seoul Cinema at UCLA (0ct. 10 -26): Waikiki Brothers, Peppermint Candy [more]

South Asian Film Day is seeking short, feature and documentary films to screen at the event [more]

The Films of Shintaro Katsu & Raizo Ichikawa in LA [more]

Chihwaseon (Oct.12) and Springtime in a Small Town (Oct. 11, 12) at the 38th Annual Chicago International Film Festival [more]

Take Care of My Cat in the States starting from New York [more]

Films of Hong Sangsoo at the University of California, Irvine (Oct.17- 24) [more]

Japanese Silent Cinema and the Art of the Benshi at the Pacific Film Archive [more]

Korean filmmaker, Lee Chang-dong won the Special Director's Award at the Venice Film Festival [more]

"Anime Fans Gather, Loudly and Proudly Obsessed" [more]

2002 New York Film Festival (Sept. 28 - Oct.14) Chiwaseon (Kwon-Taek Im), Springtime in a Small Town (Zhuangzhuang Tian), Turning Gate (Sang-soo Hong), Unknown Pleasures (Zhang-Ke Jia) & Come Drink With Me (King Hu) [more]

The Toronto International Film Festival (Sept. 5-14, 2002) Bad Guy (Ki-duk Kim), Oasis (Chang-dong Lee), Too Young to Die (Jin-pyo Park), Alive (Ryuhei Kitamura), The Eye (Oxide Pang, Danny Pang) [more]

Is there any freedom of expression in Korean Cinema? Will Too Young to Die, "a story of love and sex by a couple in their 70s in a documentary style", be screened for public? [more] [more]

Calls for entries to the International Competition and New Asian Currents programs, YIDFF 2003 [more]

¡°Eroticism, Grotesqueness, & Nonsense" Seijun Suzuki's Taisho Trilogy at the JACCC Theater (LA, CA) [more]

Call for Entries: 2003 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival [more]

"Asian Video Project Tops Italian Festival" [more]

Prominent Korean novelist and filmmaker Chang-dong Lee's latest work, Oasis Invited to Int¡¯l Film Festivals [more]

CineAsia Film Festival at Cologne, Germany (Aug. 29 - Sept. 1) One Fine Spring Day (Korea), Desert Moon (Japan), Inner Senses (Hong Kong) [more]

"China's First Lesbian Film Quietly Tests Limits" [more]

A Koran film critic found records that "Movie Introduced to Korea in 1897", six years earlier than previously thought [more]

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Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll picked up Tokyo Story (Ozu), Rashomon & Seven Samurai (Kurosawa). Thanks to GEH curator, Paolo Cherchi Usai, for mentioning Day Break (Sun Yu), a rare beauty in Asian silent cinema [more]

Asia Pacific Film Festival 2002 (Oct. 1-4) in Seoul [more]

Focus on Asia: 2002 Fukuoka International Film Festival (Sept.13 - 23 ) Chihwaseon, The Way Home, July Rhapsody, The Best of Times, Kirishima 1945 [more]

Kon Ichikawa Retrospective at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Aug. 14 - 25) [more]

Korean filmmaker, Young Man Kang, received the Silver Remi Award at 2002 Worldfest Houston [more]

Chinese actress, Gong Li, heads Venice jury [more]

Two Korean Movies in NYC. The controversial filmmaker Ki-duk Kim's The Isle starts on Aug. 23 at the Cinema Village. A free outdoor screening of Chunhyang(Im Kwon Taek, 1999) on Aug.21 in the Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City.

Bettersweet Dreams New York Korean Film Festival 2002 (Aug. 16 -25), Butterfly, Waikiki Brothers, My Beautiful Girl Mari, Take Care Of My Cat [more]

Miike Madness at The Anthology Film Archives (Aug 8 - 22) City Of Lost Souls, Happiness Of The Katakuris, Audition [more]

Kurosawa at the Film Forum (Jul 26 - Sept 12) Throne Of Blood, Drunken Angel, High And Low, Red Beard [more]

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The 25th Asian-American International Film Festival (Jul 19 - 27) Fulltime Killer, Quitting, Musa The Warrior, Last Witness [more]

Stanley Kwan's controversial Lan Yu Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Festival (Jul 11-23) [more]

Korean animation film, My Beautiful Girl, Mari Wins at Annecy [more]

Call for The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Deadline: Aug. 1, 2002 [more]

Im Kwon-taek, South Korean veteran filmmaker, received the Best Director award at the Cannes [more]

Kurosawa & Mifune (Jul. 26 - Sept. 12, 2002) [more]

Big Apple Anime Fest (Aug. 30 - Sept. 2, 2002) [more]

Asian Films: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow The 58th FIAF Congress in Seoul [more]

"Japanese hit cartoon gets US release" [more]

Call for Entries: The 25th Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) [more]

New York Asian Film Festival 2002 at Anthology Film Archives (Apr 26 - May 2), My Sassy Girl, Visitor Q, Freeze Me [more]

Brooklyn International Film Festival Princess Blade (Sato Shinsuke), Take Care Of My Cat (Jeong Jae-Eun) [more]

Nippon Connection: Japanese Film Festival (Frankfurt, Germany) Apr. 17 - 21 [more]

Far East Film at Centro Espressioni Cinematografiche (Udine, Italy) Apr 19 - 27, Musa (Kim Sung-soo), Public Enemy (Kang Woo-suk), and the notorious "pink movies" [more]

New Films From Japan 2002 (Apr 17 - Jun 21) at Japan Society. Gemini (Shinya Tsukamoto), Sunday's Dream (Yoichiro Takahashi) [more]

2002 Chicago Asian American Showcase at The Gene Siskel Film Center (April 5-14) [more]

Zhang Yi Mou's Hero: Does the world need a Hero? written by Rebecca Hu [more]

Next Director: Hong, Sang-soo "Two halves do not make a whole" [more]

Doppelganger: Kiyoshi Kurosawa & Koji Yakusho [more]

Kitano's recent film Zatoichi:"No beating this hero" [more]
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Japan's madness for manga [more]

"the Koreans absolutely love the movies", The Pifan 2003 Report [more]

A Good Lawyer¡¯s Wife, "Sex, Lies and Extramarital Bliss" [more]

Kitano Takeshi's Dolls [more]

Together: Chen Kaige's newst film [more]

Chihwaseon Drunk on Women and Poetry [more]

What's The hottest movie in vietnam? [more]

Chaos: "Hideo Nakata's Latest Maze of Death" [more]

"The Young and the Breathless", Unknown Pleasures [more]

Gong Li commutes for love in Zhou Yu's Train [more]

"Jet Li has little to do but absorb abuse in Cradle 2 the Grave" [more]

"In and Out of Trouble in 19th-Century Korea", A.O.Scott reviews Chihwaseon [more]

Hero: "Film on Ruthless Dynasty Delights China's Leaders" [more]

Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru in New York City [more]

Against 007 Die Another Day: "Film Unites Koreans" [more]

"Hong Kong film industry suffers slump" [more]

"With Hero, he's made something different: a beautiful blockbuster." [more]

Remember Hideo Nakada's Ring? His new film, Dark Water [more]

Stephen Holden reviews Jiang Wen's antiwar film Devils on the Doorstep [more]

Through the Night: "A serio-comic drama set in a Korean shantytown in the late 1950s" [more]

"At last, film buffs can once again watch the Shaw Brothers' Hong Kong classics on video" [more]

The 7th Pusan International Film Festival Report, "...crowded, cluttered and noisy, but in that regard it's also more typically Asian". [more]

I watched a wonderful Thai film, Monrak Transistor at the Pusan International Film Festival. Although our website focuses on East Asian cinema, I can't resist to introduce this funny and charming film. Whenever you can have a chance to watch this film, don't miss it! [more]

Tokyo International Film Festival gets tough [more]

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The Way Home, "the stunningly assured and affecting second feature" by Lee Jung-Hyang [more]

Happy Times: "Zhang's films have become progressively warmer, sentimental and sweet" [more]

Takashi Miike's new yakuza thriller, Noboru Ando's True Outlaw Tales: Raging Fire [more]

Asian Films at Toronto filmfest [more]

Spirited Away, "Hayao Miyazaki's epic and marvelous new anime fantasy" [more]

"Bold, Impassioned, and Vivid", Zhang Yang's Quitting [more]

If you like girls doing remarkable kung fu, you might want to watch Corey Yuen's new movie So Close [more]

Godzilla "still wows audiences with a low-tech approach" [more]

"The Asians are coming: Western dominance of the cinema will be over in 10 years" [more]

"Another Crouching Tiger: Korea Sustains Boom with Blockbusters and Auteurs" [more]

Stephen Holden (NY Times) reviews Ki-duk Kim's "The Isle" (Korea) [more]

Everybody loves to watch cute Japanese boys synchronize swimming. Funny and Gay: Water Boys [more]

"The Gangster as Hero in Hong Kong Cinema" [more]

The other side of Asian cinema: Thai Films Today [more]

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Dai Sijie) "Enjoyable and Interesting" [more]

Why has mainland Chinese cinema faded into insignificance? [more]

Asian Film Festivals [more]

A Kurosawa look, The Sea Watches, Story of Edo Period prostitutes. [more]

All About Lily Chou-Chou "a sprawling and adventurous tale of teen alienation" [more]

Lan Yu "Stanley Kwan's speaks from the heart" [more]

"Taiwanese slasher film an eyeful" [more]

KT, Junji Sakamoto's new film about the real-life 1973 kidnapping of the man who is now the South Korean president [more]

Sweet Korean movie, The Way Home, watched by about 550,000 people within its opening first week [more]

Shokoki - the Lift - Six people trapped in an elevator. [more]

Taiwanese version of American Pie, Better Than Sex [more]

"If Miike was indeed remaking the Korean hit The Quiet Family with songs and dances, it wasn't going to be The Sound of Music." [more]

"Chinese Transnational Feminism and The Cinema of Suffering" by Andrew Grossman (Bright Lights Film) [more]

A controversial Korean filmmaker, Hong Sang-soo's new work, On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate [more]

Hot young star Yosuke Kubotsuka in Jun'ichi Mori's Laundry [more]

Miss Wonton "Searching the Menu for the American Dream" [more]

Chuck Stephens (Village Voice) reviews the "Prince of Korean Cinema", Shin Sang-ok [more]

A brash Japanese cop caught up in a big case in Seoul [more]

Drive-ins in Seoul is popular. I never imagine watching movie in drive-in theater in my 'no space' country. What a nice surprise. [more]

Philip Kemp (S & S) looks at Kurosawa's sharp urban dramas [more]

Hollywood does not hold a monopoly on fireballs, Korean action blockbuster Shiri [more]

Miike Takashi's Dead or Alive Final [more]

Currently I've received articles about Asian cinema. This article, which is a part of Ms. Chong's MA dissertation, analyzes several characters of Wong Kar-wai's works relating to our postmodern urban life. [more]

Beijing Bicycle: a portrait of modern urban life in Beijing [more]

Godzilla, Mothra, King Gidora: the latest installment in the Godzilla saga [more]

The best Japanese Films of 2001: Sogo Ishii's Electric Dragon 80,000 V, Shunichi Nagasaki's A Tender Place [more]

Anime, Japanese Cinema's Second Golden Age [more]

A brief essay of Hong Kong independent (short) films and videos by May Fung [more]

The most famous founding father of Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki's latest feature, Spritied Away [more]

J. Hoberman reviews "Tsai Ming-liang's witty, wistful new film" What Time Is It There? [more]

Manga mania in the city [more]

"Testing China's Censors With a Gay Love Story", Lan Yu [more]

Beijing Rocks is "more of a human drama played out against a backdrop of the struggles of some young Beijing musicians" [more]

Throne of Blood, "the director's vision of Macbeth as a samurai is still a stunning reading..." [more]

Genji -- A 1,000 Year Love, "closer in spirit to Harry Potter" [more]

Japanese films in Korea Since the Korean goverment finally opened its market to Japanese pop culture, how has it been surviving in Korea? [more]

Sekai no Owari to Iunano Zakkaten (A Zakka Shop Called The End of the World), a lovingly crafted debut feature by Kiseki Hamada [more]

Water Boy, "a goofy but charming comedy about a bunch of high school misfits" [more]

Mark Schilling (The Japan Times) reviews Shunji Iwai's recent film All About Lily Chou Chou [more]

The 14th Tokyo International Film Festival: "Between the real and the surreal" [more]

"Critics have joked that you could happily go out for a cigarette during the film and not miss much, but Aoyama's meticulous compositions and tender observations somehow stave off the boredom." [more]

La Brassiere: Two men attempting to design the "ultimate bra" (the movie's Chinese title) [more]

Iron Mask, "This 1993 film, produced by the action master Tsui Hark, is seen in all its 35mm glory." [more]

The magic of Manga: "Every time the animators at Studio Ghibli make a film, they gamble the whole company on it." [more]

NY Film Festival Review: Shohei Imamura's Warm Water Under a Red Bridge [more] Tsai Ming-liang's What Time Is It There? [more]

The Cinema of Hong Kong : History, Arts, Identity (Cambridge University Press, March 2002) by Poshek Fu (Editor), David Desser (Editor) [more]

Malaysian Cinema, Asian Film: Border Crossings and National Cultures (AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS October 2002) by William van der Heide [more]

The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (Duke University Press, 2004) written by Kim Kyung-hyun [more]

Tsui Hark's Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (The New Hong Kong Cinema Series) (Hong Kong University Press, 2004) written by Andrew Schroeder [more]

The Yakuza Movie Book: A Guide to Japanese Gangster Films by Mark Schilling (2004 Stone Bridge Press) [more]

Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection (1953) [more]

If you can understand Japanese and are ready for spending some money, please look at the wonderful OZU DVD box! [more]

Recalling the Treasures of Japanese Cinema: Japanese Film History Studies edited by Friends of Silent Film Association (2003) [more]

Save the Green Planet [more]

The Happiness of the Katakuris on DVD [more]

The Best of 2002 Feature [Japan] [HongKong]

If you can understand Korean, I'd love to recommend this pleasant movie, Who Are You? [more]

Korean Cinema: The New Hong Kong: a guidebook for the latest 'Korean New Wave by Anthony Leong [more]

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Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy:The Genesis of China's Fifth Generation by Ni Zhen (Duke U.P., 2003) [more]

The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan by Eric Cazdyn (Duke U. Press, 2002) [more]

The Killer (Special Collector's Edition) on DVD. "Watch it. No excuses will be accepted" [more]

Screening Asian Americans Edited by Peter X. Feng [more]

Metropolis, Rintaro's stunning animated film based on a manga of Osamu Tezuka, on DVD [more]

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Three young talented Asian filmmakers, Nonzee Nimibutr (Tailand), Ji-woon Kim (Korea), Peter Chan (Hong Kong) made an eerie movie, Three [more] [more]

If you're interested in Korean Cinema, you might as well try these books published by the Pusan International Film Festival. Korean New Wave, Kim Ki-young, Beautiful Cinematographer Yoo Young-kil, & Yu Hyun-mok [more]

Want to see a scary summer movie, try this DVD, The Eye [more]

Identities in Motion: Asian American Film & Video by Peter X. Feng (Duke U. P, 2002) [more] [more]

One Fine Spring Day, this refined and modest Korean movie has been released on DVD, but without English subtitles. It is a real pity. [more]

New Chinese Cinema: Challenging Representations by Sheila Cornelius (Wallflower Press, 2002) [more]

Chinatown always fascinates me. Everything is there. If you want to watch Chinatown on screen, try these movies. [more]

I saw this beautiful feature yesterday. I just fell in love with Chihiro. You got to have this anime, Spirited Away, on DVD. [more]

The Japanese Pink Film Tandem, The Bedroom & The Dream of Garuda on DVD [more]

Tsai Ming-Liang by Jean-Pierre Rehm & Olivier Joyard & Dani?le Rivi?re [more]

The Kaneto Shindo Anthology Asmik Ace Entertainment, Inc. DVD collection, 21 discs (some optional English subtitles) and program booklet (Japanese only) [more]

Shopping for Japanese Films: "How can I get hold of these films?" [more]

Studio Ghibli DVD Collection: From Nausicaa (1984) to Mononoke Hime (1997). A great collection! [more]

Writing in Light: The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement by Joanne Bernardi [more]

Animation in Asia and the Pacific edited by John A. Lent (Indiana U.P., 2002) [more]

Asia/Pacific Cinema edited by Esther C. M. Yau & Kyung Hyun Kim (Duke U.P, 2002) [more]

Two rare gay pink films, Beautiful Mystery and I Like You, I Like You Very Much on DVD [more]

DVD-ROM, Masterpieces of Silent Japanese Cinema [more]

Im Kwon-Taek: The Making of a Korean National Cinema, Edited by David James and Kyung Hyun Kim (Wayne State U. Press, 2001) [more]

Donald Richie reviews The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune (Stuart Galbraith IV, 2002) [more]

TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion (Patrick Macias & Happy Ujihashi) [more]

Beat Takeshi vs. Takeshi Kitano (Takeshi Kitano, Lawrence Chua & Casio Abe, 2002) A collection of essays about "the world's most original action auteur", Takeshi Kitano [more]

Donald Richie reviews Joan Mellen's Seven Samurai: The Film by Akira Kurosawa (BFI, 2002) [more]

Korea Short Film Collection, Vol. 1 Five distinctive Korean short films on DVD [more]

Another book written by Donald Richie on Japanese Cinema A Hundred Years of Japanese films (Jan 1 2002) [more]

Between the Lines: Asian American Women's Poetry A videotape by Yunah Hong (2001) "a sophisticated merging of Asian-American history and identity with the questions of performance, voice, and image" [more]

The Legend of Zu (Tsui Hark) on DVD [more]

The Benshi -- Japanese Silent Film Narrators edited by the Friends of Silent Films Association (Tokyo: Urban Connections, 2001) [more]

Hong Kong Cinema - From Handicraft to High Tech (Edited by Law Kar & Winnie Fu) The development of the arts and technical aspects of the Hong Kong cinema, from the earliest handicraft to the present computer generated effects. [more]

Zhang Yimou : Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers) Edited by Frances Gateward [more]

Kurosawa's Rashomon & Throne of Blood available in DVD [more]

I couldn't believe that this big commercial video rental shop carries Hou Hsiao-Hsien's works. But it is true. His Flowers of Shanghai, Goodbye South, Goodbye, Good Men, Good Women, and others. [more]

At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World, Edited by Ester C.M.Yau (University of Minnesota Press, 2001) [more]

Anime From Akira To Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation by Susan J. Napier (Palgrave, 2001) [more]

Prominent scholars discuss the films of acclaimed Japanese director Kon Ichikawa. Kon Ichikawa (Edited by James Quandt, 2001) [more]

Hirokazu Kore-eda, "unblinking, compassionate" [more]

Interview with Masahiro Shinoda [more]

Li Yang & his first film Blind Shaft [more]

Interview with "the pioneer of contemporary pink films", Takahisa Zeze [more]

Interview with Juniji Sakamoto [more]

I still can't belive his death, Leslie Cheung(1956-2003) [more]

"Action Speaks Louder than Words": Interview with Johnnie To [more]

Jackie Chan's real life story [more]

Kinji Fukasaku (1930-2003) [more]

Mark Schilling (The Japan Times) Interviews Kiyoshi Kurosawa [more]

Interview with Lee Chang-Dong [more]

"Another Muse Is Born", Zhang Yimou's new beauty, Dong Jie [more]

Have you seen Testuo: Iron Man? Interview with Shinya Tsukamoto [more]

"Hong Kong's Stanley Kwan steps out of the shadows and into Beijing" (L.A. Weekly) [more]

Interview with Show Aikawa [more]

"Irrepressible director and acting legend, the Marlon Brando of China", Jiang Wen [more]

Stanley Kwan talks about his film Lan Yu [more]

Japanese Actress, Hitomi Kuroki well-known for her role in Paradise Lost, in Taiwan. [more]

"Happy Times' is not a political story, but rather a story about life" Interview with Zhang Yimou [more]

``It had to be film. From the age of five film has been my preferred reality.'' Said Donald Richie [more]

Talented writer/director/editor Wang Chao talks about his first film, The Orphan of Anyang [more]

Shohei Imamura tells Nigel Kendall the secret of life [more]

"I cannot go to Hollywood to shoot films. I'm unable to shoot Hollywood-style movies," said Zhang Yimou [more]

The best-known Japanese actor in the Western world, Toshiro Mifune [more]

Interview with Korean blockbuster maker, Kang Je-Gyu [more]

Interview with sound specialist, Kubota Yukio [more]

Sachi Hamano: One of Japan's leading pornographers-director or producer of just over 300 Pink Eiga' low-budget, soft-core films. [more]

Tsai Ming-Liang talks about his latest work, "What Time Is It There?" and filmmaking [more]

My brother and I never missed his most fascinating TV anime, Conan. I just can't talk about my childhood without his wonderful animation. Hayao Miyazaki [more]

Lan Ping "As Madam Mao, Jiang Qing wanted to stamp out all traces of her past as a Shanghai starlet". [more]

Akira Kurosawa:The bfi celebrates the life and career of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa [more]

No star personifies ''glamour'' more than Li Lihua [more]

China rewards controversial actress Gong Li [more]

Interview with Yoshifumi Hosoya, a Japanese director based in New York City since the mid-'80s [more]

To many Cantonese movie fans, Wong Man-lei is virtually synonymous with "evil old shrew" [more]

Interview with Hideyuki Hirayama [more]

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