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STEPHEN FUNG brings steampunk and wild aesthetics to the wuxia genre: TAI CHI ZERO is visually spectacular wuxia and steampunk fusion ★★★★ | Available on Blu-ray from @imprint_films
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New York Asian Film Festival returns for 25th edition! Serious classics, unmissable new releases, and a city-spanning lineup that has something for everyone... @NYAFF
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Jun 15
Patrick Tam’s all-but-lost arch, arty slasher movie, starring Brigitte Lin: LOVE MASSACRE ★★★★ | Screened as part of #FEFF28 #UDINEfareastfilm
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Jun 12
One woman, three timelines, three actresses. GIRLFRIENDS explores identity and memory across Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau. #女孩不平凡 #Girlfriends @CentralCityIntl | In UK cinemas from 19 June with a special preview at @TheGardenCinema this Sunday 14!
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Jun 11
After three friends meet at a school reunion they start a campaign taking revenge against those who wronged them in the past: HIKIKO: THE DESCENT | This week's #cineXtremes entry!
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Jun 10
Time travel movie hijinks ensue as an ending destroys goodwill because it was always supposed to be like this: REWRITE | Screened as part of the Japanese Film Festival Ireland @JFF_Ireland
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Bullets and Brotherhood: The Films of John Woo - A season of John Woo movies at the BFI Southbank this July! @BFI
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A powerfully raw and direct documentary bearing witness to the unforeseen political upheaval in Korea: THE SEOUL GUARDIANS | Screened as part of #FEFF28 #UDINEfareastfilm #FEFFCampus
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Starting from Music: Rediscovering the Roots of Taiwan’s Lost Commercial Cinema | Taiyupian returns for a new edition marking the 70th anniversary of Taiwanese-language cinema starting 11 June!
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Keisuke Yoshida charts similar territory to Himeanole, but with a surprising dash of humanity, in UNCHAINED ★★★★½ | Screened as part of #FEFF28 #UDINEfareastfilm
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A nice piece on Cantopop from Emma Lee-Moss aka Emmy the Great to accompany her new book... 🤓🎤
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"I wanted people to know this person so intimately that by the end they grieve for him" KARLA MURTHY discusses THE GAS STATION ATTENDANT, her moving and deeply personal reflection on the immigrant experience | Screening at @DCTVny from June 12
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Screening of ZHANG LU's award-winning MOTHERTONGUE comes to London | Winner of Best Director Award at 2025 Tokyo International Film Festival to have UK premiere at @TheLexiCinema on 6 June
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Attendees of a high school reunion find themselves trapped in the building and stalked by a mysterious killer in dull 2018 Japanese shocker CLASS REUNION aka 同窓会 (Dosokai) | This week's #cineXtremes entry!
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BLOOD MOON RITE 8, the wildest ride of genres that director PHAN GIA NHAT LINH invited us all to join, has something for everyone. Screened as part of #UDINEfareastfilm #FEFF28 #FEFFCampus
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NO TIME FOR GOODBYE offers a restrained look at asylum seekers in limbo, combining quiet performances with lived-in detail. A humane debut by journalist-turned-director Don Ng. #NoTimeForGoodbye #風繼續吹 @viavixfilms
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An explosive thriller as detectives race against time to get the truth from a captivating psychotic: SUZUKI=BAKUDAN ★★★★ | Screened at #FEFF28 and coming to Nippon Connection 2026 @NipponFilmfest
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May 29
Justice, love and the poetry of violence converging in John Woo’s THE KILLER (1989) ★★★★★ | Available on Blu-ray from @imprintfilms and @arrowvideo
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May 28
A horror manga-obsessed student is haunted by visions of a girl at her school in Norio Tsuruta’s influential 1996 chiller: A HAUNTED SCHOOL | This week's #cineXtremes entry!
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KIM DONG-HO – founder of the Busan International Film Festival – picks up a camcorder to visit theatres and ask what cinema means in his debut film MR. KIM GOES TO THE CINEMA | Screened as part of #FEFF28 #UDINEfareastfilm #FEFFCampus
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