Social networks have stretched the duration of our so-called 5 minutes of fame to unpredictable lengths and forms. Anyone who gets popular can easily become the next most unpopular person once an unexpected truth comes out or when a strong germ of gossip sprouts on the internet. We love to hate those who have what we don' t: wealth, good looks, professional success, and a huge number of followers.
Post Truth screened at Red Lotus Asian Film Festival Vienna
The expression ‘Chinese whispers' is resurrected in Da Peng's action comedy “Post Truth”, one of the most successful Chinese cinema hits of 2023, which already bagged six awards. What happens in the movie is not lost in translation, but rather in the endless pits of human thirst for the scandal and ruin of others. Da Peng, who is multitasking in the project he has (as in his previous projects) co-written with Biao Su – as the director,...
Post Truth screened at Red Lotus Asian Film Festival Vienna
The expression ‘Chinese whispers' is resurrected in Da Peng's action comedy “Post Truth”, one of the most successful Chinese cinema hits of 2023, which already bagged six awards. What happens in the movie is not lost in translation, but rather in the endless pits of human thirst for the scandal and ruin of others. Da Peng, who is multitasking in the project he has (as in his previous projects) co-written with Biao Su – as the director,...
- 4/30/2024
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
The Abandoned is a 2023 Taiwanese crime thriller that begins on New Year’s Eve, with the main character, a grief-stricken cop named Wu Jie holding a gun at her throat in the driver’s seat of a car. The Abandoned is an interwoven tale of grief, migrant laborers, and a serial killer murder mystery. Wu Jie abandons her suicide attempt when a flustered young girl bangs at her window in absolute torment. Wu Jie then discovers a corpse in a ditch nearby, automatically taking on the case and stepping into her role as detective. As these things usually go, she’s then assigned a babyface rookie cop as an assistant to solve this complicated case of the terrifying murder of a missing illegal Thai laborer.
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What Happens In The Film?
Through flashbacks, we learn that Wu Jie used to have a partner who killed himself in the same...
Spoilers Ahead
What Happens In The Film?
Through flashbacks, we learn that Wu Jie used to have a partner who killed himself in the same...
- 1/1/2024
- by Ruchika Bhat
- Film Fugitives
In as much as going outside Chinatown was interesting on Warrior Season 3 Episode 6, everything good happens there, and it was good to be back.
Father Jun's life was in danger after he took a bullet in his abdomen. This turn of events had Ah Sahm feeling guilty for the role he played in it.
Father Jun's return was like a prayer answered for Young Jun, who had not been doing a good job as the Hop Wei leader since his father's departure. There was an unspoken understanding between them where Father Jun offered his counsel while Young Jun ran the tong.
And even more importantly, no matter what had transpired between them in the past, Father Jun was still Young Jun's father, and the thought of losing one's father is always scary.
Ah Sahm was climbing walls with guilt because if he'd only left well enough alone.
His confession to...
Father Jun's life was in danger after he took a bullet in his abdomen. This turn of events had Ah Sahm feeling guilty for the role he played in it.
Father Jun's return was like a prayer answered for Young Jun, who had not been doing a good job as the Hop Wei leader since his father's departure. There was an unspoken understanding between them where Father Jun offered his counsel while Young Jun ran the tong.
And even more importantly, no matter what had transpired between them in the past, Father Jun was still Young Jun's father, and the thought of losing one's father is always scary.
Ah Sahm was climbing walls with guilt because if he'd only left well enough alone.
His confession to...
- 7/27/2023
- by Denis Kimathi
- TVfanatic
Chinese director Wei Shujun has just premiered his third film, neo-noir thriller Only The River Flows, in Cannes Un Certain Regard to positive reviews.
While he’s now had three features selected for the festival, this is the first time he’s been able to walk the red carpet in person, at least with a full-length film.
His debut, semi-autobiographical drama Striding Into The Wind, was selected in 2020, the year that Cannes didn’t take place but still presented an Official Selection. His sophomore work, Ripples Of Life, premiered in Directors Fortnight in 2021, but he was unable to fly to Cannes due to Covid travel restrictions.
However, he’s been to Cannes in person before, with his 2018 short film On the Border, which won a Special Jury Award. He says that watching the Dardenne Brothers’ Palme d’Or winner Rosetta in 2016 (a few decades after it was made in 1999) was...
While he’s now had three features selected for the festival, this is the first time he’s been able to walk the red carpet in person, at least with a full-length film.
His debut, semi-autobiographical drama Striding Into The Wind, was selected in 2020, the year that Cannes didn’t take place but still presented an Official Selection. His sophomore work, Ripples Of Life, premiered in Directors Fortnight in 2021, but he was unable to fly to Cannes due to Covid travel restrictions.
However, he’s been to Cannes in person before, with his 2018 short film On the Border, which won a Special Jury Award. He says that watching the Dardenne Brothers’ Palme d’Or winner Rosetta in 2016 (a few decades after it was made in 1999) was...
- 5/23/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
by Simon Ramshaw
Lam Nai-Choi’s “The Seventh Curse” opens with a wistful statement from its creator, prolific pulp writer Ni Kuang: “Everyone has many strange things happen around them every day. Every little thing, as long as you’re willing to dig deeper, can be turned into a strange story.” He sits in a comfortable armchair, nursing a glass of brandy as Miss Asia contestants listen eagerly to his every word. One may almost think it’s the introduction to a “Twilight Zone” tale, one of intrigue and philosophical musing within tales of the weird and macabre. Enter blossoming Hong Kong megastars Chow Yun-Fat and Chin Siu-Ho with a strange story of their own to share, one that blows the viewer’s expectations out of the water with a cult Hong Kong horror-comedy gem, filled with booby-trapped ancient temples, flying kung-fu demons and many, many explosions of blood and gore.
Lam Nai-Choi’s “The Seventh Curse” opens with a wistful statement from its creator, prolific pulp writer Ni Kuang: “Everyone has many strange things happen around them every day. Every little thing, as long as you’re willing to dig deeper, can be turned into a strange story.” He sits in a comfortable armchair, nursing a glass of brandy as Miss Asia contestants listen eagerly to his every word. One may almost think it’s the introduction to a “Twilight Zone” tale, one of intrigue and philosophical musing within tales of the weird and macabre. Enter blossoming Hong Kong megastars Chow Yun-Fat and Chin Siu-Ho with a strange story of their own to share, one that blows the viewer’s expectations out of the water with a cult Hong Kong horror-comedy gem, filled with booby-trapped ancient temples, flying kung-fu demons and many, many explosions of blood and gore.
- 12/12/2022
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
Decision to Leave is the latest film from South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, the same director of some truly amazing movies like Oldboy, Thirst and The Handmaiden (the last one being my favorite from this director).
It stars Tang Wei and Park Hae-il and it tells a surprisingly tender, yet dangerous love story between Park, a police detective who is only driven by his obsession with solving murder cases, and Wei, a mysterious Chinese-born immigrant with very ambiguous goals and motivations.
Chan-wook won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for the movie, and it’s clear why because the directing is easily the best part of this film. The actual look and presentation of Decision to Leave are just mesmerizing. The way the film communicates not just its characters, but how it presents them and how they choose to interact with each other proves why Park is a master of his craft.
It stars Tang Wei and Park Hae-il and it tells a surprisingly tender, yet dangerous love story between Park, a police detective who is only driven by his obsession with solving murder cases, and Wei, a mysterious Chinese-born immigrant with very ambiguous goals and motivations.
Chan-wook won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for the movie, and it’s clear why because the directing is easily the best part of this film. The actual look and presentation of Decision to Leave are just mesmerizing. The way the film communicates not just its characters, but how it presents them and how they choose to interact with each other proves why Park is a master of his craft.
- 12/5/2022
- by Timothy Lee
- Uinterview
Having worked with Bruce Lee on “The Big Boss” and “Fist of Fury” was one of the great achievements in the career of Hong Kong director Lo Wei, as it propelled the actor’s reputation as well as the filmmaker’s. However, while shooting the latter, he also collaborated with one of the future stars of the martial-arts-genre, as Jackie Chan did some of the stunts on “Fist of Fury” and left quite an impression with Wei who followed his career, until he was certain Chan could be the next star on the horizon. Since he also saw something of the charisma and talent of Lee in Chan, it was perhaps logical to make him star in “New Fist of Fury”, a somewhat loose sequel to the 1972 original. While it is not on the same level as the former, it has a few qualities worth mentioning, especially in the second half,...
- 8/29/2022
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Featuring some of the most iconic Shaw Bros’ actors in the faces of Ti Lung, Lo Lieh, Wong Yu, Wang Lung-wei, Chan Wai-man and Philip Ko, “Mercenaries from Hong Kong” is also very much a Wong Jing vehicle, with the distinct combination of brutal action, slapstick humor and incoherence resulting in another rather entertaining title.
“Mercenaries from Hong Kong” is screening on Fantasia International Film Festival
The movie begins with a sequence that paves the way for what is about to follow as Luo Li is attempting to assassinate a man who exploited his niece, ending up feeding him his own drugs, before escaping and realizing that there is now a contract to his name by the triads. Around that time, he is approached by a mysterious lady named Hei-ying, who is proven to be the daughter of the richest family in Hong Kong, and whose father has been recently murdered by an assassin,...
“Mercenaries from Hong Kong” is screening on Fantasia International Film Festival
The movie begins with a sequence that paves the way for what is about to follow as Luo Li is attempting to assassinate a man who exploited his niece, ending up feeding him his own drugs, before escaping and realizing that there is now a contract to his name by the triads. Around that time, he is approached by a mysterious lady named Hei-ying, who is proven to be the daughter of the richest family in Hong Kong, and whose father has been recently murdered by an assassin,...
- 7/24/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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