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Jinx!!!
K-Pop idol Hyomin stars as a Korean exchange student turned matchmaker in her heartwarming Japanese film debut… Kaede Yamaguchi: Virgo, Blood Type O. Prefers solitude to the hassles of social life. The...
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Women Who Flirt
After the dramatic style departure of Aberdeen, Pang Ho-Cheung continues exploring new frontiers… There was much to write when director Pang Ho-cheung abandoned his regular Hong Kong kicks and delved...
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My Ordinary Love Story
An oddball Korean outing which shifts from romantic comedy to something very unexpected… Over the last decade, the Korean romantic comedy has become one of the most generic cinematic forms imaginable,...
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Scarlet Innocence
Corrupted innocence turns nasty in the latest film from Korean director Yim Pil-sung… Scarlet Innocence sees director Yim Pil-sung returning with his first full feature in some seven years, following...
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Women Who Flirt
Pang Ho-cheung heads for the Mainland with a romantic comedy that unsurprisingly might not please fans of his earlier works… Women Who Flirt has also been reviewed by Andrew Daley. Having been...
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My Old Classmate
Romance and faded dreams in one of the biggest Chinese hits of 2014… Nostalgia continues to prove popular at the Chinese box office, with bittersweet films like So Young and Forever Young having ranked...
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Café. Waiting. Love
More quirky romance and innocent love from Giddens, following his hugely successful You are the Apple of My Eye… Written and produced by Giddens (Giddens Ko), Café. Waiting. Love. is the second...
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My Love, My Bride
Remake of a much-loved Korean classic following the ups and downs of a young married couple… My Love, My Bride is a remake of the hit 1990 romantic comedy of the same name, which won over audiences...
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5 Minutes to Tomorrow
Mistaken identities and twins confuse the lives of two men in this Chinese Japanese co-production… Yukisasa Isao, director of the popular 2004 Japanese melodrama Crying Out For Love, in the Center of...
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Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
Johnnie To dusts off his directorial skills in the quirky 2011 rom-com… Johnnie To’s filmmaking was in a rut around the late 2000-decade, with his Vengeance (2009) and Sparrow (2008) being long in...
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Paradise in Service
Taiwanese melodrama revolving around love in a military brothel on Kinmen Island… Paradise in Service is the latest offering from Doze Niu, one of Taiwan’s most commercially successful modern...
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Murmur of the Hearts
Sylvia Chang returns with a poetic piece about life, love and healing… Some seven years after her last feature, Run Papa Run, and four after her contribution to the 10+10 shorts anthology, acclaimed...
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I Am Somebody
An original concept that falls short due to shaky film extra talent and predictable comedy-drama formula… Former Shaw Brothers actor turned writer and director Derek Yee has spent much of his career in...
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A Midsummer’s Fantasia
A charming Korean indie cross-cultural romance set in rural Japan… Korean writer director Jang Kun-jae follows up his much-praised 2013 Sleepless Night with A Midsummer’s Fantasia, a film split into...
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Fleet of Time
First love nostalgia in a coming of age tale adapted from a popular Chinese novel… First love and nostalgic reminiscences on college years continue to be big business at the Chinese box office,...
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My Pretend Girlfriend
The ghosts of the past haunt a young man until he talks with someone from back then… On Raglan Road of an autumn day I saw her first and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day...
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A Tale Of Three Cities
An epic romance based on the lives of Jackie Chan parents. No, not terrible as you’d think… No stranger to historical dramas, Mabel Cheung (An Autumn’s Tales, The Soong Sisters) returns to the...
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Behind the Yellow Line
A footnote from the end of one era of Hong Kong cinema, and the dawn of the next… As a film, Behind the Yellow Line is little more than a footnote from the fag end of the Shaw Bros. output as a movie...
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DFW South Asian Film Festival line-up has been announced!
Ten films will be screened at DFW South Asian Film Festival from 19 February to 21 February… The Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) are in their second year in organizing a three-day South Asian Film Festival by...
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Patrick Kong returns with more romantic hijinks as a police officer goes undercover in a model group… Prolific Hong Kong filmmaker Patrick Kong takes on writing and producing duties on Love Detective...
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