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LATEST Asian Cinema REVIEW

Ready Player One
A film for a certain generation of kidult, but let it wash over you and this is cinematic fluff of the best kind.

RECOMMENDED Asian Cinema

Pale Moon

A wry and nuanced take on the corrosive power of money, Pale Moon is another provocative character study from the director of The Kirishima Thing.

Seijun Suzuki: The Early Years. Vol. 1 Seijun Rising: The Youth Movies

A fascinating glimpse into the formative years of one of Japan’s greatest cinematic talents.

Dolls

Re-released in stunning high definition, Kitano's vibrant yet melancholy exploration of doomed love remains as moving, if enigmatic, as ever.

LATEST Asian Cinema REVIEWS

Legend of the Mountain

posted by Laurence Green
19 Mar 2018

This three-hour epic makes for a visually sumptuous meditative experience.

Love and Other Cults

posted by Laurence Green
02 Mar 2018

Transcends its cookie cutter opening act to deliver a brooding, dynamic tale of messed-up young delinquents.

Birth of the Dragon

posted by Laurence Green
20 Feb 2018

Turn up for the kick-ass fight scenes, stick around for the surprising sensitivity.

After The Storm

posted by Laurence Green
19 Feb 2018

A sensitive, touching window into familial ties, presented with Kore-eda’s trademark eye for hyper-naturalistic homely settings.

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Foreign Duck, The Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker, The

8/10

13 Assassins

9/10

1911: Revolution

5/10

252: Sign of Life

5/10

About Her Brother (Otouto)

7/10

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Akira Kurosawa Samurai Collection

8/10

Ang Lee Trilogy

8/10

Antique Bakery

7/10

Arirang

9/10

Arrow Video Books - Ghost in the Shell and Unchained Melody

8/10

Asleep

8/10

Assassination Classroom

8/10

Assassins, The

7/10

Asura: The City of Madness

9/10

Attack on Titan: Parts 1 and 2 (Theatrical screening)

5/10

Attack on Titan: The Movie - Part 1

6/10

Attack on Titan: The Movie - Part 2: End of the World

6/10

Au revoir l'ete

8/10

Audition

9/10

Back to 1942

7/10

Bad Company (Mabudachi)

7/10

Battles Without Honour and Humanity Box Set

10/10

Be My Baby (Theatrical screening)

7/10

Behind the Camera

8/10

Birth of the Dragon

8/10

Black Society Trilogy

8/10

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Crime or Punishment?!?

8/10

Crocodile

8/10

Crows Zero

8/10

Crows Zero II

8/10

Dark Harbour, The (Futoko)

8/10

Dark Water

8/10

Dead or Alive Trilogy

8/10

6/10

5/10

7/10

7/10

Death Notice: Ikigami

8/10

Desire to Kill

7/10

Destruction Babies

1/10

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

9/10

Dolls

9/10

Dong-ju: The Portrait of a Poet (Theatrical screening)

8/10

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5/10

Family Values - Three Films by Hirokazu Kore-eda

10/10

Farewell My Concubine

9/10

Female Prisoner Scorpion: The Complete Collection

8/10

Fires on the Plain

8/10

Fires on the Plain (Dual Format Release)

7/10

Flowers of War, The

7/10

For Love's Sake

7/10

For Love's Sake (Theatrical screening)

9/10

Four, The

7/10

Fuku-chan of FukuFuku Flats (Theatrical screening)

8/10

Gallants

8/10

Gantz

7/10

Gantz: Perfect Answer

8/10

Garm Wars: The Last Druid

6/10

Genghis: The Legend of the Ten

6/10

Getting Any?

7/10

Ghost in the Shell

7/10

Girl At My Door, A (Theatrical Review)

9/10

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7/10

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Happiness of the Katakuris, The

8/10

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

7/10

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (Ichimei) 3D

7/10

Hard Day, A

8/10

Helpless (Theatrical screening)

8/10

Helter Skelter

7/10

Himizu

8/10

Himizu (Theatrical release)

10/10

HK: Forbidden Superhero

7/10

House, The

5/10

How To Use Guys With Secret Tips

7/10

Human Condition Trilogy, The

9/10

I Just Didn't Do It (Soredemo Boku wa Yattenai)

8/10

I Wish (Kiseki)

8/10

I Wish (Theatrical screening)

8/10

Insect Woman, The (Nippon-Konchuki)

9/10

Instant Swamp

9/10

Isn't Anyone Alive?

7/10

Judge! (Theatrical screening)

8/10

Kai (Theatrical screening)

6/10

Kick, The

4/10

Kids Return

8/10

Kiju Yoshida: Love Plus Anarchism

10/10

Kikujiro

9/10

King of Fists and Dollars

6/10

Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, The

9/10

Kirishima Thing, The (Theatrical screening)

8/10

Kite

6/10

Kumiko The Treasure Hunter

8/10

Kunoichi: Ninja Girl

3/10

Lady Snowblood / Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

9/10

Land of Hope, The

7/10

Land of Hope, The (Theatrical screening)

9/10

Last Princess, The

8/10

Legend of the Mountain

8/10

Lesson of Evil

7/10

Let the Bullets Fly

9/10

Let the Bullets Fly (Theatrical)

8/10

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7/10

8/10

8/10

Love Exposure (Blu-Ray)

7/10

Love Strikes! (Moteki)

6/10

Lowlife Love

7/10

Makeup Room

7/10

Man With Style, A - Azemichi no Dandi

7/10

Massacre Gun

8/10

Matter of Interpretation, A

8/10

Miss Granny

7/10

Missing

8/10

Mitsuko Delivers

7/10

Mitsuko Delivers (Theatrical release)

7/10

Moebius (Theatrical Screening)

8/10

Monster Chronicles, The: Tiktik

7/10

Mountains May Depart

9/10

My Ex

3/10

My Way

6/10

New Directors From Japan

8/10

Nikkatsu Diamond Guys Vol. 1

9/10

Nikkatsu Diamond Guys Vol. 2

8/10

Ninja Battle

4/10

Ninja Kids!!! (Theatrical Screening)

8/10

Obon Brothers

8/10

Ode to My Father

7/10

One on One (Theatrical screening)

6/10

One Way Trip

8/10

Otakus in Love

8/10

Outlaw: Gangster VIP Collection

9/10

Over Your Dead Body

7/10

Pale Moon

9/10

Parasyte the Movie: Part 1

8/10

Parasyte the Movie: Part 2

8/10

Petty Romance

8/10

Phantom Detective, The (Theatrical screening)

8/10

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Rebirth (Theatrical screening)

9/10

Re-Cycle

8/10

Reign of Assassins

8/10

Retaliation

7/10

Revenge: A Love Story

6/10

Rigor Mortis

7/10

Road Stained Crimson, A

8/10

Rogue Ninja

3/10

Rolling

7/10

Romance Joe

7/10

Rurouni Kenshin 2: Kyoto Inferno

8/10

Rurouni Kenshin 3: The Legend Ends

8/10

Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen

8/10

Sacrifice

8/10

Sado Tempest (Arashi)

7/10

Sake-Bomb

6/10

Sake-Bomb (Theatrical screening)

6/10

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Seijun Suzuki: The Early Years. Vol. 1 Seijun Rising: The Youth Movies

9/10

Serpent's Path / Eye of the Spider

8/10

Seven Samurai (60th anniversary BFI Blu-ray)

8/10

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Shin Godzilla (Home Video Release)

9/10

Shin Godzilla: Theatrical Review

8/10

Shirome

7/10

Snake of June, A

9/10

Snow White Murder Case, The (Theatrical screening)

8/10

Somi: The Taekwon-do Woman

8/10

Space Battleship Yamato

8/10

Spring in a Small Town

8/10

Story of Yonosuke

8/10

Story of Yonosuke, The

8/10

Stray Cat Rock Collection

8/10

Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist

9/10

Suicide Club

8/10

Sweet Little Lies

9/10

Tag

8/10

Tag (Dual Format Release)

9/10

Tale of Iya, The

9/10

Tale of Samurai Cooking - A True Love Story, A

7/10

Taste of Money, The

7/10

Tetsuo: The Iron Man / Tetsuo II: Body Hammer

10/10

The Villainess

7/10

The Yellow Sea (Hwanghae)

8/10

Thermae Romae (Theatrical screening)

7/10

Thunderbolt Fantasy Eps. 1-5

8/10

Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

6/10

Tokyo Fist

9/10

Tokyo Ghoul

8/10

Toshiaki Toyoda: The Early Years

8/10

Touch of Sin, A

8/10

Train to Busan (Theatrical screening)

8/10

Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers

7/10

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Unlucky Woman's Blues

6/10

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Violent Prosecutor, A (Theatrical screening)

8/10

Vulgaria

8/10

We Are X

9/10

Wood Job!

8/10

Woodsman and the Rain, The

8/10

World of Kanako, The (Theatrical Screening)

8/10

Wu Xia

9/10

Yakuza Hunters / Yakuza Hunters 2

6/10

Yatterman

8/10