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From a comedy premise, a serious story full of strong feelings… Ah, the life of high school students in Japan. In her small country town, Mitsuha gets up, prepares breakfast for herself, her sister and...
View ArticleThe Last Princess
The life story of Princess Deok-hye is a true drama… The ending of hegemonies as the main subject, has given a number of masterpieces, with “The Last Emperor” being the most renowned, and probably the...
View ArticleHime-Anole
Quirky romance gives way to something very dark indeed in the latest offering from Keisuke Yoshida… After making his debut with the 2005 Sora Aoi-starring pinku Raw Summer, Japanese director Keisuke...
View ArticleiGirl
Hong Kong romantic comedy in which Ekin Cheng receives a robot girlfriend in the shape of Chrissie Chau… Offering up what could easily be seen as a dubious line in male fantasy fulfilment, Hong Kong...
View ArticleOver The Fence
The film features Yu Aoi doing animal impressions. What more do you want?… Director Nobuhiro Yamashita is a director whose work I have followed recently and all of his work that I have seen so far, I...
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The anime film that is on the number one spot at the Japanese box office 12 weeks and counting!… Makoto Shinkai is an animation film-maker that has been earmarked to become the next Hayao Miyazaki with...
View ArticleRemember You, aka Don’t Forget Me
Jung Woo-sung stars as a lawyer suffering from amnesia falls in love with a mysterious woman… An unfortunate lawyer finds recovering lost memories to be more difficult and painful than he imagined in...
View ArticleShe Remembers, He Forgets
Miriam Yeung plays woman caught in a troubled marriage who thinks back to a love triangle from her school days… Director Adam Wong and producer Saville Chan, the team behind the surprise 2013 Hong Kong...
View ArticleCrush and Blush
An overlooked antidote to formulaic Korean Rom-Coms showcasing the talents of Gong Hyo-jin… Meet Mi-sook (Gong Hyo-jin, Love Fiction, Memento Mori) – one of life’s losers. Surly, moody and cursed with...
View ArticleA Chinese Odyssey: Part 3
Jeff Lau returns with the third part of his classic Chinese Odyssey series, this time minus franchise star Stephen Chow… More than twenty years after the release of the two-part A Chinese Odyssey back...
View ArticlePhantom of the Theatre
Vengeful spirits haunt a theatre in 1930s Shanghai… One of the few directors known for working in the horror genre in China, Raymond Yip teams again with writer-producer Manfred Wong for the period-set...
View ArticleAt Café 6
More bittersweet Taiwanese high school nostalgia and romance in this adaptation of a popular novel… Nostalgic tales of first love, loss and high school memories continue to be popular in the Taiwan...
View ArticleOne Night Only
A compulsive gambler crosses paths with a young prostitute, leading to a night of bizarre incidents… One Night Only sees superstar Aaron Kwok (Cold War 2) playing a desperate gambling addict who spends...
View ArticleLove and Goodbye and Hawaii
A sweet and insightful gem of a film… Break-ups are incredibly hard. While some of them can be done like quickly taking off a band-aid, some of them take ages to get over. In those latter break-ups,...
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Saving Sally
A comic book enthusiast battles for the woman he loves in an animated world of monsters and rival boyfriends… Rarely do we get a big, live-action animated film. From the classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit...
View ArticleOne Day
A graceful romantic drama from veteran Thai director Banjong Pisanthanakun, about snow festivals and temporary amnesia… Following the move of most A-list directors in Thailand from the GTH (GMM Tai...
View Article52 Hz, I Love You
Taipei in Technicolor… 52 Hz, I Love You was destined to be box office hit in Taiwan. Released around Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day, the feel-good musical was supposed to be the answer to...
View ArticleThe City Of Betrayal
What happens when you have no job? You spend all day having an affair with strangers through dating websites!… Director Daisuke Miura crafts a world of secretly messy affairs in The City of Betrayal....
View ArticleMy Love Story (Ore Monogatari!!)
She fell in love with the big scary ogre! Why are you surprised?… GOUDA Takeo, first year of high school, is big and scary: half again as tall as his age mates, extremely strong, mostly silent. His...
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77 Heartbreaks
Charlene Choi and Pakho Chau star in Herman Yau’s romantic comedy about 77 relationship heartbreaks that need forgiving… For many, Herman Yau will forever remain synonymous for his Category III...
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