Hong Sang-soo's films have a certain calm quality to them that many have tried to replicate over the years, with mixed results. So you would be forgiven for thinking that director Lim Oh-jeong, who has worked in Hong's directing department on a few of his films including “Tale of Cinema” and “Like You Know It All”, would try to replicate those qualities for her debut feature-length work “Hail to Hell”. However, this couldn't be further from the truth.
Hail to Hell is screening at London Korean Film Festival
The feature opens with a gang of students bullying Sun-woo. Shortly after, Sun-woo and Na-mi, another girl who is bullied by the same gang and the only person Sun-woo can remotely call a friend, go through a silly failed suicide attempt and decide that, instead of taking their lives, they should exact revenge on those that put them through hell.
Hail to Hell is screening at London Korean Film Festival
The feature opens with a gang of students bullying Sun-woo. Shortly after, Sun-woo and Na-mi, another girl who is bullied by the same gang and the only person Sun-woo can remotely call a friend, go through a silly failed suicide attempt and decide that, instead of taking their lives, they should exact revenge on those that put them through hell.
- 11/12/2023
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
20 of the contributors of Asian Movie Pulse from America, Oceania, Europe and Asia have voted the 25 Best Films of 2021, resulting in what we consider a great selection, particularly since the offer of titles this year was much wider, as Asian cinema seems to take a bigger and bigger percentage of the content offered internationally, in theaters, festivals, and streaming services.
In that regard, the list includes films from S. Korea, Iran, Kazakhstan, India, Japan, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Turkey, Taiwan and the Philippines, while crime thrillers, martial arts, arthouse, courtroom and social dramas, comedies and Asian-American films have found a place.
Without further ado, here are the best Asian films of 2022, in reverse order. Some films may have premiered in 2021, but since they mostly circulated in 2021, we decided to include them, in one of the calmer votes in the history of Amp.
25. Hail to Hell
Lim takes the oft repeated subject...
In that regard, the list includes films from S. Korea, Iran, Kazakhstan, India, Japan, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Turkey, Taiwan and the Philippines, while crime thrillers, martial arts, arthouse, courtroom and social dramas, comedies and Asian-American films have found a place.
Without further ado, here are the best Asian films of 2022, in reverse order. Some films may have premiered in 2021, but since they mostly circulated in 2021, we decided to include them, in one of the calmer votes in the history of Amp.
25. Hail to Hell
Lim takes the oft repeated subject...
- 12/18/2022
- by AMP Group
- AsianMoviePulse
Hong Kong Family by Eric Tsang Hing Weng – The Humiliated Family Man
The first half hour of “Hong Kong Family” unfortunately promises much more than the film can eventually deliver. The characters are introduced, precisely and already in a bitingly ironic tone. It’s about the titular family. It consists of a father, a mother, a daughter and a son. At the beginning of the film, they are just getting into the car to go to the grandmother, the mother of the mother, to celebrate her birthday. The first argument breaks out when the man wants to keep the basket of pastries on his lap so that it doesn’t spill out in the trunk during the drive, but the woman puts it in the trunk anyway. Then it is about the fact that the man has no job and, according to his wife’s idea, does not try hard...
The first half hour of “Hong Kong Family” unfortunately promises much more than the film can eventually deliver. The characters are introduced, precisely and already in a bitingly ironic tone. It’s about the titular family. It consists of a father, a mother, a daughter and a son. At the beginning of the film, they are just getting into the car to go to the grandmother, the mother of the mother, to celebrate her birthday. The first argument breaks out when the man wants to keep the basket of pastries on his lap so that it doesn’t spill out in the trunk during the drive, but the woman puts it in the trunk anyway. Then it is about the fact that the man has no job and, according to his wife’s idea, does not try hard...
- 10/25/2022
- by Teresa Vena
- AsianMoviePulse
Hong Sang-soo’s films have a certain calm quality to them that many have tried to replicate over the years, with mixed results. So you would be forgiven for thinking that director Lim Oh-jeong, who has worked in Hong’s directing department on a few of his films including “Tale of Cinema” and “Like You Know It All”, would try to replicate those qualities for her debut feature-length work “Hail to Hell”. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth.
Hail to Hell is screening at Busan International Film Festival
The feature opens with a gang of students bullying Sun-woo. Shortly after, Sun-woo and Na-mi, another girl who is bullied by the same gang and the only person Sun-woo can remotely call a friend, go through a silly failed suicide attempt and decide that, instead of taking their lives, they should exact revenge on those that put them through hell.
Hail to Hell is screening at Busan International Film Festival
The feature opens with a gang of students bullying Sun-woo. Shortly after, Sun-woo and Na-mi, another girl who is bullied by the same gang and the only person Sun-woo can remotely call a friend, go through a silly failed suicide attempt and decide that, instead of taking their lives, they should exact revenge on those that put them through hell.
- 10/9/2022
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
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