Despite this one being a mediocre season for Asian cinema, Nyaff still managed to include a number of gems in its huge program, once more justifying its place as the biggest festival of Asian cinema in the Western world. With an obvious focus on titles by and about women, the programmers offered a diverse selection that included the whole spectrum of genre films from the whole region, while also of note was the inclusion of a plethora of shorts, both live-action and animation. Japanese and Korean (family) dramas, action and horror from Asean countries, while the Chinese mainland cinema highlighted a couple of captivating stories. Comedies are still a mixed-bag, at least for the Western audience, but some progress is also evident in that category also. Without further ado, here is a list of this year's coverage of New York Asian Film Festival
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- 8/4/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Long prescribed to a stagnating society, the status quo had its own rulebook torn at the onset of the age of coronavirus. Rupturing ordinariness at the seams, the question always remained: why go back? Why not stumble into the extraordinary, an imaginative domain of endless possibilities and supernatural intrigue? These ideals of returning to what had been became rife for their own rebellion, to forge a future suited for all. For the adolescent, such drastic change could never come at a more disruptive time, forced to make sense of a world, of a body, of mind and soul, being turned upside down. Though there may be little actual rebellion unfolding within Shinichi Fujita's ‘Mayhem Girls', there is plenty to rebel against the film itself, a disappointing yet oddly charming flurry of escapism that poses more questions than it can bare to answer.
Mayhem Girls is screening at New York...
Mayhem Girls is screening at New York...
- 7/26/2023
- by JC Cansdale-Cook
- AsianMoviePulse
Nyaff unveils first wave of features from China, Hong Kong, Japan and beyond.
The New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) has unveiled the first wave of features for its 22nd edition and announced that Japanese actor Ryohei Suzuki will receive the Screen International Rising Star award.
Nyaff will run from July 14-30 at the city’s Film at Lincoln Center, with a programme of more than 60 titles, and Suzuki will be presented with the award recognising emerging talent from East Asia on July 15.
Suzuki has been acting on screen for more than 15 years, with a string of roles in Japanese...
The New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) has unveiled the first wave of features for its 22nd edition and announced that Japanese actor Ryohei Suzuki will receive the Screen International Rising Star award.
Nyaff will run from July 14-30 at the city’s Film at Lincoln Center, with a programme of more than 60 titles, and Suzuki will be presented with the award recognising emerging talent from East Asia on July 15.
Suzuki has been acting on screen for more than 15 years, with a string of roles in Japanese...
- 6/15/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The film revolves around two men, who seem to be living in different timelines. The first one, Kaito, is living in the present and is a writer for a political magazine with a nationalistic line. Despite his seemingly regular persona of a dedicated employee who occasionally drinks with his friends, he has another, quite dark and perverse one. He keeps stalking Kuniko, an ex-colleague in university he used to have an affair with, who is now a very successful author. Furthermore, he has regular sex sessions with Yumi, a prostitute, where he is dressed in a Japanese military uniform and she is made to act in various, submissive roles, at least when he is not masturbating with a tube-like gadget. Even more than that, he seems to hide a rage in him, which is bound to be released at some point. This moment comes when a colleague declines his invitation to dinner.
- 10/8/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The film revolves around two men, who seem to be living in different timelines. The first one, Kaito, is living in the present, is a writer for a political magazine with a nationalistic line. Despite his seemingly regular persona of a dedicated employee who occasionally drinks with his friends, he has another, quite dark and perverse one. He keeps stalking Kuniko, an ex-colleague in university he used to have an affair with, who is now a very successful author. Furthermore, he has regular sex sessions with Yumi, a prostitute, where he is dressed in a Japanese military uniform and she is made to act in various, submissive roles, at least when he is not masturbating with a tube-like gadget. Even more than that, he seems to hide a rage in him, which is bound to be released at some point. This moment comes when a colleague declines his invitation to dinner.
- 3/7/2017
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: The companies have struck a world sales alliance on Yuji Shimomura’s completed action title in the run-up to Busan and Afm.
Nikkatsu Corporation will handle international sales on Re:Born while Xyz Films represents North American rights.
Star Tak Sakaguchi reunites with his director of Versus and Death Trance in the story about a retired special forces soldier who comes out of retirement when his niece is kidnapped by his former employer.
Midori Inoue and Shinichi Fujita produced Re:Born, which features a new combat technique developed for the film called Wave.
“It may sound bold, but Re:Born could be the new cornerstone in action movies,” said Inoue. “Tak Sakaguchi and the director Yuji Shimomura have put their blood and sweat together for the last five years during which Tak gave up the whole concept of so-called entertainment action but instead trained to adjust himself to the most practical combat techniques.
“On the other...
Nikkatsu Corporation will handle international sales on Re:Born while Xyz Films represents North American rights.
Star Tak Sakaguchi reunites with his director of Versus and Death Trance in the story about a retired special forces soldier who comes out of retirement when his niece is kidnapped by his former employer.
Midori Inoue and Shinichi Fujita produced Re:Born, which features a new combat technique developed for the film called Wave.
“It may sound bold, but Re:Born could be the new cornerstone in action movies,” said Inoue. “Tak Sakaguchi and the director Yuji Shimomura have put their blood and sweat together for the last five years during which Tak gave up the whole concept of so-called entertainment action but instead trained to adjust himself to the most practical combat techniques.
“On the other...
- 10/5/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Action choreographer turned director Yuji Shimomura has become a great favorite around these parts over the past several years. Originally drawing attention as the fight choreographer of cult hit Versus, Shimomura has gone on to have one of the most interesting and consistently entertaining careers of anyone from the Versus crew as he has moved easily from small budget splatter to big budget period action while hitting all stops in between. And in 2005 Shimomura finally took the step behind the camera, directing Versus star Tak Sakaguchi in Death Trance - in my opinion a very under rated and under seen film.
Well, the next twelve months promise to be the year of the Trance-rs. We've already reported on Alien Vs Ninja, the new feature directed by Death Trance co-writer Seiji Chiba with Shimomura handling the action, and now here is Yassy - a seventeen minute short directed by Shinichi Fujita,...
Well, the next twelve months promise to be the year of the Trance-rs. We've already reported on Alien Vs Ninja, the new feature directed by Death Trance co-writer Seiji Chiba with Shimomura handling the action, and now here is Yassy - a seventeen minute short directed by Shinichi Fujita,...
- 12/2/2009
- Screen Anarchy
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