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Views, news, and reviews of films from the continent's biggest movie production centres.
As Hong Kong mourns storyteller Ni Kuang and filmmaker Alex Law, it can take comfort from knowing their much-loved legacies will live on.
The film Shang-Chi, starring Simu Liu, Awkwafina and Tony Leung, showcases how Asian filmmakers and actors are moving ever further away from racist stereotypes. The cultural diversity now visible on screen is the result of larger demographic trends that the US far right cannot hold back even if it tried.
Hong Kong used to be a global player in the television, film and music sectors but the shine has worn off in the past couple of decades; now is the time for a reboot.
- Cantopop singer Ekin Cheng has been in the entertainment industry for decades, having started out in an advertisement for a lemon tea drink
- His rise to fame has not been without its hiccups – the singer became a magnet for the tabloids and his romances have been criticised by the public
Director Sam Wong has tried to pack too much into Suspect, and the result is an incoherent mess. Playing a detective with unusual powers, Nick Cheung endures some frankly stupid set pieces.
Golden Horse Awards winner Old Fox depicts Taiwan after the end of martial law, a time of rapid change. Director Hsiao Ya-chuan hopes its message resonates today as it did in the era in which it is set.
Some film fans say going to the cinema in city no longer affordable entertainment, particularly with transport and food added.
In 1998, Rush Hour shot Jackie Chan to international fame. But after making the film with Chris Tucker, Chan ultimately decided not to abandon Hong Kong, and continued to make films in both places.
Ryohei Suzuki stars as playboy detective Ryo Saeba in new Netflix movie City Hunter, the latest adaptation of the manga of the same name by artist Tsukasa Hojo.
If Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver holds little appeal to you, try these five related movies instead - they’re all amazing.
As two Hong Kong films premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, we look back at the city’s cinema history at the event, including Wong Kar-wai’s many hits and Johnnie To’s successes in the 2000s.
Singaporean director and writer Yeo Siew Hua talks about addressing the age of surveillance in his new film Stranger Eyes, Chinese philosophy, and why he is on the lookout for collaborations.
Christopher Nolan references and a love triangle don’t save Chinese drama Galaxy Writer, which follows two fledgling filmmakers navigating China’s commercialised movie industry.
Flower Drum Song (1961), the first Hollywood film with a mostly Asian cast, was a rare box-office dud for Rodgers and Hammerstein. Was it a coincidence? We look back at the groundbreaking musical.
Veteran Tony Leung takes best actor prize for his role as a flamboyant con-man in crime thriller The Goldfinger.
Kim Sung-su’s political blockbuster faithfully recounts the 1979 coup d’état that plunged South Korea into its darkest period to date, in a film full of grandstanding machismo and intimidation.
Thrilling HBO Vietnam war drama, directed by The Handmaiden’s Park Chan-wook, stars Robert Downey Jnr as various characters and Hao Xuande as a Viet Cong spy working for the chief of the secret police.
The same five titles dominate the nominations in all major categories of the Hong Kong Film Awards 2024. Post film editor Edmund Lee predicts the winners and reflects on who or what actually should win.
Iranian-French actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi, who won best actress at Cannes 2022 for Holy Spider, talks about her films that portray people defying Iran’s strict laws, and advocating for women’s rights.
Journalist Shiori Ito’s documentary Black Box Diaries is a soul-baring examination of her sexual assault by a high-profile journalist and her fight for justice that pushed the #MeToo movement in Japan.
Writer and director Sasha Chuk stars in her debut film Fly Me to the Moon, which follows a young immigrant from mainland China as she struggles to live life in Hong Kong.
Filipino director Mikhail Red talks about Friendly Fire, his upcoming esports movie, why he loves making horror films, and how it is hard to survive as a filmmaker in the Philippines.
Oldboy’s Choi Min-sik stars as a paranormal investigator who, with shaman Hwa-rim (played by Kim Go-eun) and others, performs a ritual cleansing on the grave of a property tycoon’s ancestor.
Hong Kong actor and director Wu Ma had a prolific career in front of and behind the camera. His best film, The Dead and the Deadly, showed the formula for success.
From his favourite Omegas to a ‘skeleton’ Cartier, the Everything, Everywhere All at Once star has impeccable tastes in timepieces
The big mystery about this suspense drama is how a film with such a promising scenario – a star-crossed romance, identity swap and cold-blooded murder – can turn out so dull, nonsensical and awful.
Michihito Fujii’s 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days simple tale of a young Taiwanese man exploring his first love’s homeland, Japan, proves surprisingly effective – despite its needlessly clumsy title.
A heist movie that looks like it was dreamed up by a five-year-old, We 12, starring all the members of Cantopop boy band Mirror, is witless, lifeless and above all dull. For true fans only.
