2002 Philadelphia Festival of the World Cinema (Apr. 4 - 18) Happiness of the Katakuris (Takashi Miike), Pistol Opera (Seijun Suzuki), One Fine Spring Day (Hur Jin-Ho) and many other Asian films [more]

New Directors/New Films (Mar. 22-Apr 7) at MOMA, Take Care of My Cat (Jae-eun Jeong), The Mars Canon, (Shiori Kazama), The Orphan of Anyang (Wang Chao) [more]

Kon Ichikawa: A Reprise (Mar 18-Apr 5) at MOMA [more]

Hong Kong cinema at the Siskel Film Center (Mar 2 - Apr 1) [more]

Brussels Festival of Fantasy Film (Mar 15- 30) Avalon (Mamoru Oshii), Kakashi (Norio Tsuruta Ryuta), The Legend of Ginko (Je-Hyun Park) [more]

Miramax Films has signed Japanese horror director Ryuhei Kitamura [more]

PanAsian Film Festival at Deauville, France (Mar. 7 - 10) Fathers (Lou Jian), Failan (Song Hae-sung), A Woman's Work (Kentaro Otani) [more]

The 20th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (Mar 7 - 17) [more]

Murdoch 'launches Asian film house' [more]

Retrospective of the Work of Master Korean Filmmaker Shin Sang-ok at MOMA (Mar 4 - 16, 2002) [more]

Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away was awarded the top prize at the Berlin international film festival. [more]

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2002 Call For Entries The San Diego Asian Film Festival Early Deadline: April 30 Final Deadline:June 7 [more]

East Asian Film Festival at International House (Feb. 20-24) A Tale of Love (Trinh T. Minh-ha), Goodbye, South Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien) [more]

2002 Berlin International Film Festival (Feb. 6 - 17) Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki), Bad Guy (Ki-duk Kim), KT (Junji Sakamoto), Happy Times (Zhang Yimou) [more]

Korean industry supports screen quota system [more]

"China is making it easier for independent producers to make films" [more]

While I was reading "Tokyo Journal" in Film Comment, I found out a great Japanese filmmaker, Shinji Somai, passed away last Sept. He died of lung cancer at only 53. The article talking about his life and films is not available for on-line reading. If you are intersted in him, try Film Comment Jan/Feb issue.

New Japanese Cinema at Walter Reade Theater (NYC), Feb. 21 - 28, Barren Illusion (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), Not Forgotten (Makoto Shinozaki), Ring (Hideo Nakata) [more]

Korean blockbuster Shiri (Kang Je-gyu) opens on Feb. 8 in NYC, LA, San Francisco, Seattle, and Wash. DC [more]

Dark Visions: Japanese Film Noir & Neo-Noir at Japan Society (NYC) from Jan. 18 - Mar. 22 [more]

NFT marks 50 with Kurosawa season [more]

Every Thursday evening from January to April, Akira Kurosawa, at George Eastman House (Rochester, NY) [more]

31st International Film Festival Rotterdam (23 January - 3 February 2002) Springtime in a Small Town (Tian Zhuangzhuang), Ren Min Gong Che (Fruit Chan), Tian Ya (Yan Yan Mak) Fellyfish Alert (Kurosawa Kiyoshi) [more]

In the Mood For Love Honored by New York Film Critics Circle [more]

Hong Kong Films, China Stars Sweep Taiwan's Oscars [more]

Asian films score in Bangkok [more]

Stanley Kwan tackles two of China's touchiest taboos in his latest film set in the Chinese capital. [more]

Ozu's I Was Born, But at the Walter Reade Theater (NYC), Dec. 4, 6 [more]

Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Flowers Of Shanghai(Dec. 8, 9) at the American Museum Of The Moving Image (Queens, NY) [more]

Two Taiwanese Masters: Tsai Ming-Liang & Hou Hsiao-Hsien at Cinematheque Ontario [more]

The Progressive Tradition: Films Of Great Wall, Feng Huang And Sun Luen is a festival running until January 11 at the Hong Kong Film Archive (HKFA) in Sai Wan Ho. [more]

Asian films shine at Hawaii Film Festival [more]

AFI Highlights New Asian Classics [more]

Celebration Of Chinese Cinema 2001 at Raw Space (NYC), Nov. 9 - Dec. 30 [more]

The 6th Pusan International Film Festival presents a lineup of 201 films from 60countries. [more]

The Old School Kung Fu Fest (Nov. 8 - Dec. 15) at Cinema Village ( 22E 12th Street, NY)
Leg Fighters, Martial Aarts Of Shaolin, Crippled Avengers, Taoism Drunkard [more]

The 45th Regus London Film Festival ( 7 - 22 Nov.) Waikiki Brothers (Im Soon-Rye), Sorum (Yoon Jon-chan), Lan Yu (Stanley Kwan), Bad Company (Tomoyuki Furumaya) [more]

2001 Chicago International Film Festival (Oct. 4 - 18) The Orphan of Anyang (Wang Chao), Blue Spring (Toyoda Toshiaki), Water Boys (Shinobu Yaguchi), Address Unknown (Kim Ki-duk) [more]

Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu (1953, 96m.) at the Walter Reade Theater (Lincoln Center, NYC) Oct. 25 , 27. [more]

Lies (Jang, Sun-woo, South Korea, 1999) at The Anthology Film Archives (Oct. 6) [more]

Donald Richie on Japanese Film at the Japanese Society (Oct. 3 - Dec. 14, 2001) [more]

UCLA Film and Television Archive Presents HONG KONG NEON (October 3 - 7, 2001) Gen-X Cops (Dak Ging San Yan Lui), Spacked Out (Miu Yan Ga Sai), Twelve Nights (Sap Yee Yau) [more]

Nagisa Oshima's Rebel Films at George Eastman House (Sept. 13 - Oct. 25) Night and Fog in Japan, Death by Hanging, The Diary of a Shinjuku Thief [more]

2001 Helsinki Film Festival: Love And Anarchy (20-30 September) I Am an SM Writer (Hiroki Ryuichi), Metropolis (Rintaro), Betelnut Beauty (Lin Cheng-sheng) [more]

2001 Focus On Asia [Fukuoka] (13-23 September) Ha Ha Shanghai (Christine Choy), The Cabbie (Chang Hwa-kun & Chen Yi-wen), Hush! (Hashiguchi Ryosuke) [more]

Kon Ichikawa Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (Sept. 7 - Oct. 2) [more]

2001 Toronto International Film Festival (6-15 Sept.) Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Musa: The Warrior (Kim Sung-soo), Electric Dragon 80000 V (Ishii Sogo) [more]

2001 New York Film Festival (28 Sept - 14 Oct) All About Lily Chou-chou (Iwai Shunji), What Time is it Over There? (Tsai Ming-liang) [more]

2001 Montreal World Film Festival (23 Aug - 3 Sep): Fathers (Lou Jian), Big Mama (Ichikawa Kon), Friend (Kwak Kyung-taek), What Time is it Over There? (Tsai Ming-liang) [more]

Tell Me Something, a stylish Korean thriller in the serial-killer mold of Silence of the Lambs and Seven, opens August 24th at the Cinema Village in New York City. [more]

"In death, Kurosawa remains hot movie property": making a U.S. verision of Kurosawa's classics, Rashomon & High and Low [more]

Call for Entries: 2002 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (March 7-17, 2002) [more]

2001 Venice Film Festival (29 Aug - 8 Sep) Quitting (Zhang Yang), Hollywood Hong Kong (Fruit Chan), Harmful Insect (Shiota Akihiko), Address Unknown (Kim Ki-duk) [more]

When Korean Cinema Attacks! New York Korean Film Festival 2001 (August 17-26, 2001) at The Anthology Film Archives. [more]

2001 Edinburgh International Film Festival (12-26 August) The Orphan of Anyang (Wang Chao), Seance (Kurosawa Kiyoshi), What Time is it Over There? (Tsai Ming-liang), Face (Sakamoto Junji) [more]

2001 Sydney Asia-Pacific Film Festival (9-18 August) Space Travelers (Motohiro Katsuyuki), Tears (Im Sang-soo), Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen) [more]

2001 Melbourne International Film Festival (18 July - 5 August) I Love Beijing (Ning Ying), Time and Tide (Tsui Hark), Electric Dragon 80000 V (Ishii Sogo), The Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Hong Sang-soo) [more]

2001 Fantasia International Film Festival (10-30 July), Crash Landing (Zhang Jianya), Double Tap (Law Chi-leung), Gojoe (Ishii Sogo), Die Bad (Ryu Seung-wan) [more]

2001 NY Asian American International Film Festival (19-28 July) Body Drop Asphalt (Wada Junko), Sky Blue Hometown (Kim So-young) [more]

2001 Jerusalem Film Festival (12-21 July) Song of Tibet (Xie Fei), Hush! (Hashiguchi Ryosuke), What Time is it Over There? (Tsai Ming-liang) [more]

2001 Cambridge Film Festival (12-22 July) Asako in Ruby Shoes (E J-yong), Betelnut Beauty (Lin Cheng-sheng), Beijing Bicycle (Wang Xiaoshuai) [more]

2001 Fukuoka Asian Film Festival (7-15 July) Mirror Image (Hsiao Ya-chuan), Clean My Name, Mr Coroner! (James Yuen), There's a Strong Wind in Beijing (Ju An-qi) [more]

2001 Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (12-20 July) [more]

Kurosawa's Seven Samurai at BAM's Rose Cinemas (NYC) on July 3 & 4 [more]

John Woo Resurrects The Ninja Turtles [more]

2001 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (5-14 July 2001) Beijing Bicycle (Wang Xiaoshuai), The Bird Who Stops in the Air (Jeon Soo-il), Bongja (Park Chul-soo), What Time is it Over There? (Tsai Ming-liang) [more]

2001 La Rochelle International Film Festival (29 June - 9 July 2001) Platform (Jia Zhangke), Durian Durian (Fruit Chan), Juliet in Love (Wilson Yip), Spacked Out (Lawrence Ah Mon) [more]

2001 Pesaro Film Festival (22-30 June 2001) I Love Beijing (Ning Ying), Annyong-Kimchi (Matsue Tetsuaki), Blue-Chong (Lee Sang-il), Distance (Kore'eda Hirokazu), Barking Dogs Never Bite (Bong Joon-ho) [more]

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Films of Kinji Fukasaku at BAM Rose Cinemas (July 5 - 31) His controversial Battle Royale (2000) on July 6 (7:30 pm) [more]

2001 Shanghai International Film Festival (9-17 June 2001) The Full Moon (Chen Li), The Purple Sun (Feng Xiaoning), Darkness in the Light (Kumai Kei), Interview (Daniel H Byun)... [more]

The 24th Asian American International Film Festival (New York, June 20 - 28) Korean box office record breaker, Friends (Kwak Kyung-taek) opens the festival. [more]

The Asian Fantasy Film EXPO Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (Takao Okawara, 1993), Pulgasari (Shin San-Ok, 1983), Godzilla 2000 (Takao Okawara,1999) [more]

The 13th Annual NewYork Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (May 31- June 10) Fleeing by Night (Hsu Li-Kong & Yin Chi), Iron Ladies (Yongyooth Thongknothun), Memento Mori (Min Kyu-dong) [more]

Kaneto Shindo's A Last Note at the Japanese Society (June 22) [more]

2001 Aurora Asian Film Festival (May 31 - June 17), Breaking the Silence (Zhou Sun), Twelve Nights (Aubrey Lam), Departure (Yosuke Nakagawa), Hidden Whisper (Vivian Chang) [more]

The Films of Tsai Ming-Liang (June 29 - July 12) at the Walter Reade Theater (New York): Vive L'Amour, The River, The Hole, My New Friends, & Corners of the World [more]

2001 Sydney Film Festival (June 8 - 22) Platform (Zhangke Jia), Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku), Joint Security Area (Chan-wook Park) [more]

2001 Seattle International Film Festival (24 May - 17 Jun 2001) Joint Security Area (Park Chan-wook), Jin-Roh (Okiura Hiroyuki), Gen-X Cops (Benny Chan) [more]

2001 VC Filmfest at Los Angeles (17-24 May 2001) Body Drop Asphalt (Wada Junko), Love/Juice (Shindo Kaze) [more]

Ang Lee Short Movie 'Chosen' Hits Internet. [more]

2001 Cannes International Film Festival (9-20 May 2001): Beijing Story (Stanley Kwan), Desert Moon (Shinji Aoyama), Lukewarm Water Under the Bridge (Shohei Imamura), What Time is it There? (Ming-liang Tsai), The Orphan of Anyang (Chao Wang) [more]

Two Korean films, Tell Me Something and Swiri to open in America [more]

Channel 13 PBS Celebrates May as Asian Heritage Month Ancestors in the Americas (The first in-depth TV documentary, May 4, 9-11 p.m.) Rabbit in the Moon (P.O.V. May 4, 12:30 - 2 a.m.) Turbans/Eagle against the Sun (Two Short films, May 11, 12:30 - 1:30 a.m.) [more]

The Masterworks of Hou Hsiao-Hsien (May 4 - May 17) at the Screening Room, 54 Varick Street, New York. Films included Flowers Of Shanghai, Good Men, Good Women, Dust In The Wind, A City Of Sadness [more]

This week's opening of a Korean film festival at the Metro cinema in London goes some way to drawing attention to the most dynamic and youthful film industry in the business. [more]

Hiroshi Teshigahara, (Woman in the Dunes), Dies at 74 [more]

2001 Jeonju (South Korea) International Film Festival, Apr 27 - May 3 [more]

2001 Hawaii International Spring Film Festival, April 20 - 26 : Juliet in Love (Wilson Yip), Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku), A Day (Ji-seung Han) [more]

Movies Made in Japan Are Set for Cannes [more]

Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema presents a bunch of Asian films this year. (April 26 - May 7) Don't miss Action Asia & Danger After Dark

San Francisco International Film Festival (April 19 - May 3) Jiang Wen's Devils on the Doorstep, Ichikawa Kon's Dora Heita, and Lee Chang-dong's Peppermint Candy [more]

2001 Barcelona Asian Film Festival (23 Apr - 9 May 2001) Hidden Whisper (Vivian Chang), Boys' Choir (Ogata Akira), and Sigh (Feng Xiaogang) [more]

The 7th Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival is scheduled from October 3 to 9, 2001. Official open call for entries started from September 1. [more]

Far East Film Festival in 2001 Italy (April 20 - 28), Highlights include a focus on new Shanghainese cinema... [more]

Two Taiwanese Masters: The Cinema of Lee Hsing and Wnag T'ung at Anthology Film Archives (April 20 - May 3) [more]

One fine Korean movie at the New School, Tishman Auditorium (66 W. 12th St., New York), April 18th. Our Twisted Hero (Jong-won Park, 1992)

Katsuhiro Otomoto's Akira (Japan, Orig. 1988/ Digital Restoration 2001) begins Fri. March 30 at Empire 25 (West 42nd Street, New York). [more]

Millions of film lovers in Asia roared Monday as martial arts fantasy Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon scooped up four Oscars.. [more]

2001 Chicago Asian-American Showcase April 12-21 [more]

Pusan Asian Short Film Festival to Start May 25 [more]

At the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, New York) March 17 (Sat) 4:30pm & 9:10pm. Barking Dogs Never Bite (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea, 2000, 108m)

Donald Richie Retrospective: Richie, who has worn the label of "foremost foreign authority on Japanese cinema", has made 39 short films... [more]

Joint Security Area wins grand prix at Deauville Asian Film Festival [more]

2001 Singapore International Film Festival (11-28 April 2001): "Audition" (Miike), "Barren Illusion" (Kurosawa), "Koroshi" (Kobayashi), "My Neighbors The Yamadas" (Takahata)... [more]

This weekend the director Ang Lee was honored for his work by the DGA, receiving the organization's top prize... [more]

A Tatsumi Kumashiro Retrospective:This new series is the first U.S. retrospective of controversial Japanese film director Tatsumi Kumashiro (1927-1995), whose subject matter often depicted the resilience of working-class women... [more]

Chinese Dogma 2001: A New Wave Cultural Revolution.Young Chinese filmmakers today script their own pictures, and use non-professional actors, valuing realism over spectacle. [more]

The total number of moviegoers in Seoul surged to 27 million last year, a 12.4 percent growth from 1999. [more]

Peggy Chiao believes regional symbiosis within the film industry will bring Taiwanese cinema to a global audience. [more]

Subway Cinema presents Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong: a Tsui Hark Retrospective, running May through July [more]

New Directors/New Films presents several Asian films, "The Foul King" (Mar 24, 25), "Face" (Mar 27,29), "Peppermint Candy" (Mar 31), "Durian, Durian" (Apr 5) and "Hole in the Sky" (Apr 7,8) [more]

2001 CineAsia Film Festival [Cologne] (15-18 March 2001) shows twenty-four Japanese films including "Eureka" and "Kids Return" [more]

This year's fest contains 11 features, including a two-film salute to Yuen Woo-ping, the action choreographer of "Crouching Tiger," Chicago Hong Kong Film Festival (weekends March 3 - April 1) [more]

For all its popularity in the United States and Europe, Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," a film set in ancient China with characters who speak in Mandarin, has not soared on its home turf. [more]

The 19th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival(March 3-18) features a diverse and excited selection of films from across the Asian diaspora, from the US, and points throughout the world. [more]

The film series, Countries & Cities in East Asian Film, at Columbia University (Feb.13-Apr.10) invite us to enter cities and countries that are distant but hardly strange. [more]

Harvard Film Aichive presents the Sixth Generation Chinese Cinema from Feb. 16 to Feb. 27. [more]

The University of Southern California, East Asian Studies and School of Cinema Television, presents contemporary Korean films from Feb. 9 to Feb. 18. "Shadows of Modern: Social Change and the New Korean Cinema [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]

Mark Schilling reviews Fukuoka Film Festival: "Asia's best shine at cinema showcase" [more]

Toronto 2001 Review
All About Lily Chou Chou, Shunji Iwai shows himself to be a precise master of sound and light. [more]
Zhang Yang's Quitting, "Bold, Impassioned & Vivid" [more]

Magnificent Obsessions Kon Ichikawa's dryly ironic and gallows-humored view of human beings [more]

Blood: The Last Vampire "presents some of the most visually detailed characters ever seen in an animated film not aspiring to photo-realism." [more]

"Words create lies. Pain can be trusted." Dennis Lim (The Village Voice) reviews Audition. [more]

A.O.Scott (NY Times) reviews Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure (1997), a film about a glum police detective stalking a serial killer. [more]

Tsui Hark's latest project, The Legend Of Zu: A whole new breed of warriors [more]

Tsai Ming-liang's masterpiece, The River, "it is an excellent introduction to his oblique narrative style, his favored themes and his careful, lyrical visual sensibility." [more]

Richard Falcon (Sight & Sound) reviews a young Korean film-maker Kim Ki-Duk's international breakthrough movie, The Isle [more]

The Korean movie industry has had a good year so far. But, [more]

"The reason to see this movie, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, is simply, gloriously, to look at it." [more]

Hiroyuki Nakano who is "one of the foremost Japanese practitioners of the MTV way" made his second film Stereo Future [more]

Though his oeuvre spans four decades and some 60 films, the alarmingly versatile Kinji Fukasaku remains something of a nonentity in art-house circles. [more]

Kiss of the Dragon offers "action in the form of a very high kick-to-word-of-dialog ratio" [more]

In the copycat world of cinema, it was inevitable that someone would try to replicate the success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," [more]

Tsai Ming-liang Opens the Floodgates [more]

Minna no Ie (Everybody's House): A blueprint for total disaster [more]

Hoberman reivews Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade: it's a superbly crafted science-fiction fairy tale that's both Grimm and grim. [more]

"Two types of Korean movies used to be released in Japan. One was the art film...The other was the erotic film." Mark Schilling reviews JSA, a Korean box-office hit. [more]

A film adapted from a sexually explicit underground novel published on the Internet about a sizzling gay relationship that overlaps the Tiananmen Square massacre... [more]

Take a love story, add blood. Donald Clarke (The Irish Times) likes the cut of this director, Miike Takashi. [more]

Asian Movies Hit the Road. Asian films make waves at Cannes. [more]

Women in Chinese Films, Chasing Their Impossible Dreams. [more]

Cannes 2001 Review: After-Death; Kore-eda Can't Go the Distance. [more]

Memories as microcosms, reviewed by Mark Schilling [more]

Cannes 2001 Review: Time and Tsai; The Clock Strikes Ming-liang. [more]

Yim Ho's Pavilion of Women is loaded with little love croutons, and they're all stale. [more]

Though Time and Tide may not count among Tsui's best (such as "Peking Opera Blues"), it hints at some great expectations for the future. [more]

Eureka partakes of a completely different order of cinematic existence than any other film you're likely to see in the near or distant future. [more]

How the East won the West: After Crouching Tiger, movie bosses think eastern stars are the next big thing. [more]

Zhang Yimou has a new, exquisite film, The Road Home. A review from the San Francisco International Film Festival. [more]

Wayne Wang's The Center of the World, Developed from a story whose collaborators include novelist Paul Auster and avant-garde filmmaker Miranda July, the movie is oddly squeamish... [more]

Naomi Kawase who won the Camera d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival for her first feature film, "Moe no Suzaku", made her second feature Hotaru. Visually poetic and Narratively impressionistic. [more]

Ann Hu's Shadow Magic imagines an intriguing, culturally fraught moment in the early history of cinema. [more]

Another shade of blue: so strange, so familiar. Kaori Shoji reviews Chong, a stunning film debut by 26-year-old Lee Sang Il. [more]

Takeshi Kitano's new film, Brother, just released in UK, Sight & Sound reviews the film. [more]

How can it not be with four of the hottest actors cast in leading roles and with a can't-lose plot like this? Friends [more]

Stephen Holden reviews Junji Sakamoto's subtly subversive film, Face [more]

Beautiful, very human portrait of a good-hearted lonely man who runs a remote roadside diner and one day thinks he finds love. Hole in the Sky [more]

Welcome to a midlife-crisis movie, Yukihiko Tsutsumi's Chinese Dinner [more]

A movie about male friendship, responsibility and commitment, Dante Lam's Hit Team [more]

Destructive, Vital and Obsessive Love Affair, Ki-duk Kim's The Isle [more]

Go East, Blair Witch; Japan's "Inugami" Teases Horror [more]

The past few years have seen an unprecedented renaissance in the South Korean film industry. Korean Cinema: the New Frontier [more]

Wang Xiaoshuai's "So Close to Paradise," which opens today at the Screening Room (NY), has some of the gamy, brutal melancholy of a classic Hollywood tough-guy B picture. [more]

Director Kim Jae-soo's "Club Butterfly," a drama about "couple swapping," is the kind of movie that makes you worry for it. [more]

Kyoko Koizumi is Yuriko, a Tokyo pink-salon hostess who services anonymous men in dimly lit booths with a blowsy detachment, but also with a creeping exhaustion, in Shinji Somai's new film "Kazahana," [more]

Melodrama after melodrama has hit local theaters, giving the romantics their fill of sweet tales about love and family. Spring cinema, hot and controversial in Korea [more]

Though set mostly in Los Angeles and featuring American actor Omar Epps in a starring role, "Brother" is all Kitano in nearly every frame, meaning about as non-Hollywood as you can get. [more]

Takenaka Naoto's "Tokyo Clear" is a gorgeous movie with rare footage of Japan's hidden beauty. [more]

"In the Mood for Love" Wong Kar-wai's Hong Kong romance smolders with more reserved passion than "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" [more]

Indie mainland director Wang Xiaoshuai's "Beijing Bicycle" overplays its slim hand by a good two reels. [more]

In his exquisitely wrought new film, Chunhyang, Im Kwon Taek uses Pansori, a Korean traditional song performance, to tell a folktale, a fable of young love that crosses forbidden class boundaries. [more]

Breaking taboos and the furniture in a single gesture, a young man in Beijing slams a chair onto his father's head. With that, the shouting stops in Zhang Yuan's "Sons" and silence opens like an abyss? Stuart Klawans says Chinese films that have never seen in China... [more]

Writer-director Lou Ye's second film, a tale of amour fou set in modern-day Shanghai, opens with shots of the swirling Suzhou River from which it takes its name. [more ]

Edward Yang's Kieslowskian melodrama is a quiet and subtle film, one whose power has ample time to creep up on you. Philadelphia Citypaper reviews YiYi (A One and a Two) [more ]

Vicious performance keeps flashy, violent 'Nowhere to Hide' moving, Jeffrey M. Anderson examines Lee Myung-se's new film [more ]

"Taboo(Gohatto)", Nagisa Oshima has reveled in the spectacle of unleashed sexual frustration disintegrating the dam of a repressive social order. [more]

Joint Security Area stormed up the South Korean charts on its September release. Hollywood Reporter reviews [more]

As from a script by Akira Kurosawa, director Takashi Koizumi pays tribute to the Japanese master telling a story that he could not film before his death, After the Rain... [more]

Word and Image in Japanese Cinema (Edited by Dennis Washburn & Carole Cavanaug, 2000) This book "examines the complex relationship between the temporal order of linguistic narrative and the spatiality of visual spectacle, a dynamic that has played an important role in much of Japanese film." [more]

Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale - 2000 on VCD. It contains English & Chinese subtitles. [more]

Breaking The Silence on VHS (English & Chinese Subtitles) [more]

Frankly I don't usually buy VHSs or DVDs, but sometimes I can't resist temptation. Wong Kar-Wai's Fallen Angel, Happy Together on 30 % off Sale. [more]

Japanese Cinema in Bright Lights Film Journal [more]

Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema, (Duke U. Press, 2000) Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto analyzes Kurosawa¡¯s entire body of work, from 1943¡¯s Sanshiro Sugata to 1993¡¯s Madadayo. [more]

Contemporary Korean Cinema: Identity, Culture, and Politics (Manchester University Press, March 2001), The first full-length study of Korean film written by a professor at the University of Sheffield, Hyangjin Lee. [more]

Subrosa (Helen Lee, 2000) traces a young woman's journey to Korea, the land of her birth, to find the mother she's never known. [more]

It is not easy to find Asian films at video rental shops. Do you want a tip on how to find cool stuff? [more]

Edward Yang's YiYi on DVD. [more]

Fruit Chan's striking film Made in Hong Kong (Hong Kong 1997) on VHS. [more]

Ghost in the Shell on DVD. Included "the making of Ghost in the Shell" documentary. [more]

Owls' Castle Masahiro Shinoda's 34th feature film explores the solitary mission and lonely struggle of a Ninja assassin. Subtitles in English, Japanese and Korean. [more]

Seen Tony Leung (In the Mood for Love) playng a smooth-talking detective whose trench coat carries an arsenal of tricks and provides astreetwise disguise for the Kung Fu master? Tokyo Raiders on DVD now.. [more]

This is not a big film but very warm and enjoyable. Also you can see naked guys! Yang Zhang's Shower on DVD [more]

Based on a horror pot-boiler by Koji Suzuki, Ring became the highest-gorssing horror film in Japanese history when it was released in 1998. Now avaiable on DVD [more]

China into Film : Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema Jerome Silbergeld, who is a professor of Art History at the University of Washington, reveals "a cinematic form that is at once excitingly new and yet deeply imbedded in traditional Chinese visual culture." [more]

Jackie Chan's The Legend of Drunken Master on video. [more]

Has the line between the real world and the wired world begun to blur? This interesting Japanese Animation series, Lain discovers how closely the two worlds are linked. [more]

"Without question Il Mare was very pretty to look at". A beautiful and enjoyable Korean romance film, Il Mare, now on DVD with English subtitles. [more]

"There cannot be any perfect solutions or explanations about Tell Me Something" Would you like to solve the puzzle in Tell Me Something? [more]

If you want to see a beautiful talented actress who played Jen in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, try this gorgeous film, "The Road Home", (Zhang Yimou, China, 1999). [more]

Would you like to see one of the great Japanese "Pink Films"? Koji Wakamatsu's "frenzied studies of sexual repression and terrorism" in Ecstasy of the Angels and Go, Go Second Time Virgin
Also Shunya Ito's remarkable cult-classic Female Convict Scorpion, available in DVD version.

Lee Myung-se's Nowhere to Hide: An action/art film constructed around the pursuit of a deceptive killer. Subtitled in English, Chinese and Japanese. [more]

If it seems a strange choice for script publication - high on visuals, low on dialogue - the screenplay for Ang Lee and James Schamus 'fightin' fable makes for an entertaining read. [more]

Imagine that you knew you were going to die very soon...how would you spend your last days? Christmas In August Subtitled in English and Chinese. [more]

Post-Crouching Tiger, the DVD debut of this 1991 Hong Kong classic is well-timed. Tsui Hark's film is a visual treat. Once Upon a Time in China DVD, Hong Kong Legends Cert 15 **** [more]

Planet Hong Kong:Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (David Bordwell): This book offers a deeply informed and highly engaging look at how Hong Kong cinema has become one of the success stories of film history... [more]

Another recent book by film historian Jeffrey Ruoff and modern Japan historian Kenneth Ruoff, entitled The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1998), recalls Japan's military past by bringing to light the controversial 13 year-old documentary by Hara Kazuo, The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987).[more]

Spotlighting Asian Americans on both sides of the motion picture camera, Countervisions:Asian American Film Criticism examines the aesthetics, material circumstances, and politics of a broad spectrum of films released in the last thirty years. [more]

Chuck Stephens (Film Comment) chooses ten Essential Oshima's films including his most controversial film, In the Realm of the Senses (1976). [more]

Two Authors, Dudley Andrew & Carole Cavanaugh, contribute separate essays towards a self-styled conversation about Kenji Mizoguchi's 1954 masterpiece, Sansho Dayu [more]

"I have never seen One Korean film!" Try these ten Korean films suggested by a viewer, Adam Harzell. Mostly available in English. [more]

The veteran Japanese film-maker behind Tora! Tora! Tora! has turned his talents to murderous teenagers. Steve Rose (The Guardian) talks to Kinji Fukasaku [more]

The New Age Maggie Maggie Cheung has changed since her marriage and move to Paris. She tells why she's ''fine-tuned'' and ''modified'' her philosophy. [more]

Interview with Kiyoshi Kurosawa, talking about genre filmmaking and Cure, which is currently playing in LA & NYC. [more]

Totoro, Miyazaki Hayao come to Korea [more]

Chen Kaige, the world-renowned film director who has agreed to make "Mongyudowondo," [more]

Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker will make a third instalment of the Rush Hour movie series. [more]

Interview with Zhu Xu [more]

Award-winning film director Jacob Cheung Chi-leung talks about his new film, Midnight Fly [more]

Time Magazine has named Ang Lee America's best director [more]

Tired of playing Hollywood's favourite China doll, Joan Chen decided to try directing. [more]

Martial arts master Jet Li has finished work on his new film Kiss of The Dragon [more]

Jet Li pitches in for a cool $78m. [more]

Zhang Ziyi started out at the top, director-wise. [more]

Director Toshiaki Toyoda talks about "Unchain,'' his new film about four young boxers in Osaka. [more]

Interview with Kawase Naomi by Aaron Gerow (Documentary Box) "Because I depict this community in a more personal way, showing the relations between myself and the people in it, some people might criticize my films because they¡¯re not very analytical." [more]

John Woo, "Believe it or not, I'm looking forward to doing a musical" [more]

Also Interview with John Woo [more]

Hou Hsiao-Hsien, based in Taiwan, is one of the most acclaimed directors of the past two decades by film buffs and critics alike. [more]

Peter Loehr, The future of Chinese cinema lies not with the likes of Gong Li, but with an independent studio led by a bubble-gum chewing New Yorker. [more]

"Actually, I don't think a filmmaker can change their character; they just keep the same way all the time..." Chuck Stephens interviews Tsui Hark. [more]

Wayne Wang Journeys to "The Center of the World". [more]

As a child in Taiwan, Edward Yang fell in love with the movies... [more]

"My seven latest movies belong to a genre is called 'cultural/artistic' in China. I place my movies in three categories: art, propaganda and commercial." Interview with Xie Fei [more]

Donald Richie: being inside and outside Japanese cinema [more]

Tony Rayns talks about a Korean director, Sun-woo Jang [more]

Miike Takashi is a model of calm. So why is his new movie, Audition, so gruesome? [more]

Korean actor, Park Joong-hoon (Nowhere to Hide) to star in Hollywood film. [more]

Interview with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:"But then I have to update the martial arts film in my own fashion", Ang Lee & "Martial arts is something you can learn or pick up and think you could do really well" Michelle Yeoh

Corridors that Whisper Dark Secrets: An Interview with Director Park Ki-Hyung [more]

Unearthly entertainment, Kiyoshi Kurosawa on the making of 'Kairo' [more]

"But gradually, I realized that my life and my films were inseparable. And I wanted to give my work some meaning." A Veteran Director's High Fidelity, Interview with Im Kwon-taek [more]

With in The Mood For Love, art-house auteur Wong Kar-Wai goes in search of lost time: Amy Taubin (Village Voice) writes about Wong. [more]

"It is a lot easier to stay with the establishment, but this is not my way of life" Shohei Imamura speaks to the World Socialist Web Site [more]

The "Ring" Master: Interview With Hideo Nakata [more]

Interview with Koreeda Hirokazu whose work covers a variety of mediums and genres, from television to film, documentary to fiction. [more]

Wong Kar-Wai - Charisma Express, by Tony Rayns (Sight and Sound) [more]

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