The live version of Hayao Miyazaki’s hit anime Spirited Away has found new fans in London’s West End – the three-hour play is filling the London Coliseum and its run has been extended by five weeks.
Preserving acetate film, on which Hollywood has shot movies since the 1950s, is not easy but is key to ensuring the survival of some of the best movies made. Experts talk about the work they do.
Oddisee, who was in Hong Kong for Clockenflap 2018, is back for an intimate gig, playing music from his catalogue, including his latest album To What End, and coming EP And Yet Still.
dreamy colours, heartfelt performances and economical storytelling characterise My Sunshine, Japanese director Hiroshi Okuyama’s film following two young ice dancers and their coach.
Tomotaka Shibayama’s animated fantasy My Oni Girl on Netflix looks good but feels pedestrian and predictable, and sadly lacks the spark and inventiveness of a Studio Ghibli film.
2001 videos of his hometown, outtakes from past films, and scenes of a thinly sketched romance make up Caught by the Tides, a nostalgia trip set in towns soon to be drowned by China’s Three Gorges Dam.
Inspired casting, with Andy Lau facing off against Maggie Q and Sammo Hung narrating, helped Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon succeed. Martial arts scenes light up God of War, some involving Hung.
Song Kang-ho plays the titular character in Uncle Samsik, a political fixer with a shady past to overcome who tries to get close to Byun Yo-han’s idealistic civil servant.
Is it a Western? is it a political allegory? In a film of two halves with a stunning opening, Eddie Peng’s wayward man returns home after a decade away, bonds with a dog and reconciles with one and all.
Famous for his celebrity-packed chain of Chinese restaurants, 85-year-old Michael Chow talks about facing prejudice, and why he wants to be known as the world’s greatest living artist.
Yorgos Lanthimos returns to the opaque, off-kilter style of his early films in Kinds of Kindness, which is three films in one. Something of a reunion for the stars of Poor Things, this will divide opinion.
Korean actress Chun Woo-hee, currently on screens in Netflix’s The Atypical Family and The 8 Show, has been appearing in films and on TV in Korea for two decades. We look back over her acting career.
Eight strangers, each living on a separate floor in a giant room, play a violent game, whose rules are unclear, to earn prize money in The 8 Show, a stylish Korean drama series that is compulsive viewing.
With nods to Shakespeare and Citizen Kane, Coppola mixes science fiction and satire in this long-awaited, daft but daring saga of an architect (Adam Driver) building a 21st century metropolis.
Yuyu Kitamura, one of the stars of Netflix hit Dead Boy Detectives, talks about learning from her character, what she gained from growing up in Hong Kong, and being allowed to chase her dreams.
Star of category III soft porn films such as Erotic Ghost Story and Sex and Zen, Amy Yip talks about her time in Hong Kong’s adult movie industry, the ‘Yip tease’, and thoughts of acting again.
Premiering out of competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, An Unfinished Film, from Chinese director Lou Ye, delivers a powerful message in its story of Covid-induced lockdown in Wuhan.
While you wait to see Anya Taylor-Joy battle Chris Hemsworth, how about treating yourself to some of the best Asian films depicting an uninhabitable future, from Akira to Snowpiercer.
Disney+ K-drama Crash stars Kwak Sun-young as Min So-hee, the head of Traffic Crime Investigation, and Lee Min-ki as insurance investigator Cha Yeon-ho, as they track down a serial killer.
Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth are stellar in the latest episode in George Miller’s dystopian saga – this time set 15 years before 2015’s Fury Road which introduced Furiosa, played by Charlize Theron.
John Krasinski’s movie, starring Ryan Reynolds and Steve Carell, follows 12-year-old Bea (played by Cailey Fleming), who finds a doll-like imaginary friend (IF) in her grandmother’s building.