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All Asia articles – Page 85
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NewsSouth Korean box office falls 32% year-on-year
Admissions in the first half of 2021 are the lowest since KOFIC started keeping track in 2004.
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NewsCambodian sci-fi ‘Karmalink’ to open Venice Critics’ Week
Jake Wachtel’s debut feature deals with artificial consciousness and reincarnation.
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FeaturesAsian industry gives verdict on Cannes, market conditions
Asia was busy buying and selling via Zoom meetings during the Marche, but only diversified companies have real spending power, and most of the Chinese buyers sat this one out.
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NewsBeijing film festival unveils line-up for 2021 physical edition
Gong Li heads the jury of the international competition, which also includes Nadine Labaki, Renny Harlin and Leste Chen.
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NewsTokyo film festival partners with Amazon on new talent award
The award will be open to filmmakers living in Japan who have not yet made a commercial feature.
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Reviews‘Emergency Declaration’: Cannes Review
Drama on a plane from Seoul to Honolulu as a deadly virus is unleashed
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Reviews‘Belle’: Cannes Review
Mirai’s Mamoru Hosoda plays in a virtual realm with this captivating alternate-reality animation
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NewsJenny Suen’s ‘Peaches’ scoops top NAFF prize at Korea’s Bifan
Further awards included a prize for We Jun Cho’s ‘Hungry Ghost Diner’.
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NewsAsian streamer Viu seals content deals with China’s Huace
Viu grew its user base in Asia with Korean dramas, but is starting to push into Chinese-language content.
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Reviews‘Streetwise’ (‘Gaey Wa’r’): Cannes Review
Gritty drama from China is set in the Sichuan Province of two decades ago
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Reviews‘Invisible Demons’: Cannes Review
Indian filmmaker Rahul Jain pulls no punches about his homeland’s environmental crisis
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NewsRediance picks up Locarno title ‘Whether The Weather Is Fine’ (exclusive)
Whether The Weather Is Fine is directed by Philippines filmmaker Carlo Francisco Manatad.
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NewsChina box office: ‘Chinese Doctors’ tops chart with $53.5m opening
Patriotic titles continue to lead the China box office, with historical drama 1921 coming in second.
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Reviews‘Are You Lonesome Tonight?’: Cannes Review
Wen Shipei’s lacklustre Chinese hit-and-run thriller makes its international premiere as a Cannes special screening
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Reviews‘Drive My Car’: Cannes Review
Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi effectively adapts a short story by Haruki Murakami
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FeaturesBerlin prize-winner Ryusuke Hamaguchi talks Cannes Competition title ‘Drive My Car’
The film is based on a Haruki Murakami short story.
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NewsSony swoops for Anita Mui biopic from Edko Films (exclusive)
Hong Kong fashion model Louise Wong stars as the renowned actress and Canto-pop diva.
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FeaturesCannes 2021: Japan hot projects
The focus at home might be on the delayed Olympic games, but Japanese sellers are back at the Marché with titles from the likes of Takashi Miike and Yoji Yamada
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Reviews‘Onoda - 10,000 Nights in the Jungle’: Cannes Review
Opening Un Certain Regard, Arthur Harari’s feature follows a Japanese soldier who fights on through the decades
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Reviews‘Rehana’: Cannes Review
Un Certain Regard drama set in Bangladesh follows one woman’s heedless pursuit of justice