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Pachya Pinkaew Chases the White Elephant with Djimon Hounsou

I hadn’t heard that “Ong Bak” director Pachya Pinkaew was looking to get into the English-language movie scene until I stumbled across this report that the Thai director had signed on with Zero Gravity Management for his beyond-Thailand representation. The short article also mentions...
November 20th, 2009 | Read More

Battle Clips from John Woo’s Red Cliff

For those who are interested in such things, John Woo’s martial arts epic “Red Cliff” (formerly “The Battle of Red Cliff”) opened in limited release in the States yesterday. Granted, the perfect timing for this post would have been yesterday, but hey, better late than never,...
November 19th, 2009 | Read More

Impressive Teaser Trailer for Michael Chuah’s Fist of Dragon

Well-executed promotional trailers for intense martial arts movies are not unlike a hit of crack: as soon as you you get that initial buzz, you instantly want more. The clip for Michael Chuah’s upcoming kung fu extravaganza “Fist of Dragon” is insanely tasty, and has quickly wormed...
November 19th, 2009 | Read More

Donnie Yen Kicks More Japanese Ass in Chen Zhen

Donnie Yen kicking ass on film is always cause for celebration. Yen may have been mired in some really awful vanity projects in his early Hong Kong film career, but he’s on a major streak of box office success (both domestically and internationally) in recent years, putting out some really good...
November 19th, 2009 | Read More

The Bronze Medalist (2009) Movie Review

Its inspirational sports time again with “Bronze Medallist” (a.k.a. “Lifting King Kong”) from Korea, marking the directorial debut of Park Geon Yong, who had previously worked on the blockbuster “Typhoon”. Although its themes are common enough, the film earns extra points both for having...
November 15th, 2009 | Read More

Is the Oldboy Remake Dead?

You don’t have to be an Asian movie snob to think that remaking Chan-wook Park’s “Oldboy” is probably not a really good idea. But then to announce you’re not really going to remake the Korean movie, but will actually go back to the original Japanese manga source material...
November 10th, 2009 | Read More

Running Turtle (2009) Movie Review

The rather oddly titled “Running Turtle” sees Kim Yoon Seok following up his award winning role in “The Chaser” by playing another down and out cop working outside the law to track down a murderer. The film was written and directed by Lee Yeon Woo, who was previously responsible for “2424”,...
November 7th, 2009 | Read More

24 City (2008) Movie Review

“24 City” is the latest offering from sixth generation Mainland China director Jia Zhangke and sees him continuing to explore themes of the country’s modern history and economic progress. Here, he does this through a semi-documentary that focuses on the story of a munitions factory, once moved...
November 7th, 2009 | Read More

Oppai Volleyball (2009) Movie Review

All that most male viewers probably need to know is that “Oppai Volleyball” translates as ‘breast volleyball’ and that it stars the gorgeous swimsuit model turned actress Haruka Ayase as a teacher who tries to inspire a young school boy volleyball team by promising she will show them her breasts...
November 7th, 2009 | Read More

Sisters on the Road (2008) Movie Review

“Sisters on the Road” marks the debut of female writer director Boo Ji Young, and as the title suggests, is a drama following two sisters on a voyage of discovery and an exploration of their shared pasts. The film has an impressive cast, with the two siblings in question being played by actresses...
November 7th, 2009 | Read More

Whispering Corridors 5: A Blood Pledge (2009) Movie Review

The landmark Korean ghost series “Whispering Corridors” returns for its fifth instalment with “A Blood Pledge”, marking the debut of director Lee Jong Yong, an interesting choice for the helm, given his previous work under Park Chan Wook on the likes of “JSA” and “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance”....
November 7th, 2009 | Read More

Hard Revenge, Milly: Bloody Battle Trailer is Quite Cool

Crazy, over-the-top Japanese action movies seem scientifically designed to appeal to someone with my warped cinematic sensibilities. “Tokyo Gore Police,” “Meatball Machine,” and “The Machine Girl” are all responsible for my current obsession with this sort of picture,...
November 5th, 2009 | Read More

Raging Phoenix (2009) Movie Review

You can’t blame the Thais for continuing to produce action movies like “Raging Phoenix”. There are basically only two genres coming out of Thailand that sells nowadays – martial arts movies and horror films. Everything else just doesn’t translate very well. One of the industry’s newest import...
November 5th, 2009 | Read More

Amazing Tales: Three Guns Trailer aka Zhang Yimou’s Blood Simple Remake

A trailer for Zhang Yimou’s “Amazing Tales: Three Guns” has popped up online, and it looks … interesting. Adapted by Jianquan Shi and Jing Shang, the Chinese remake of the Brothers Coens’ “Blood Simple” transplants the story into a period film set in a Chinese...
November 2nd, 2009 | Read More

Lala Pipo: A Lot of People (2009) Movie Review

Having been scripted by Tetsuya Nakashima, the award winning writer director of the excellent “Kamikaze Girls” and “Memories of Matsuko”, it comes as no surprise that “Lala Pipo” is another slice of colourful Japanese pop culture craziness. Marking the directorial debut of Nakashima’s assistant...
October 30th, 2009 | Read More

Palisades Tartan’s Asian Horror: Essential Collection Review

Just in time for Halloween, Palisades Tartan has grouped together three of the most successful Asian horror films of recent years in one region 2 DVD collection. Although terms such as ‘essential’ are woefully overused when it comes to such compilations, in this case it certainly rings true, as the...
October 30th, 2009 | Read More

New Trailer and TV Spots for Yuen Woo-Ping’s True Legend

A new trailer chock full of fights (but short on plot and dialogue, which is not necessarily a bad thing) and two short but very cool TV spots for action master Yuen Woo-ping’s return to directing in the martial arts/fantasy movie “True Legend” have shown up online. If you absolutely...
October 28th, 2009 | Read More

Yuen Woo-ping Preps his Garnet on the Golden Sand

Sure, the title may not sound like it’s got buckets of martial arts fun waiting for you (”Garnet on the Golden Sand”???), but consider the director involved: Yuen Woo-ping. Westerners will know him as the guy who made the martial arts in Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill”...
October 27th, 2009 | Read More

Korean Killer Boar Flick Chaw Headed To Region 1

Generally speaking, I’m not really a fan of the whole “animals run amok” genre. There are a few exceptions to the rule, of course, but for the most part, I find them to be somewhat lacking in the horror department. However, having recently witnessed James Isaac’s enjoyable 2008...
October 26th, 2009 | Read More

English Subtitled Trailer For Haunted Universities

I first discovered the trailer for Bunjong Sinthanamongkolkul and Sutthiporn Tubtim’s upcoming Thai horror flick “Haunted Universities” (aka “Mahalai Sayongkwan”) a while back, though, not being overly familiar with the language, I was a little clueless as to what, exactly,...
October 26th, 2009 | Read More

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