NYAFF 2011: An Interview With Lee Joon-ik, Director of BATTLEFIELD HEROES
[And we've reached the finish line with Diva Velez's final interview from NYAFF with The King and the Clown and Battlefield Heroes director Lee Joon-ik. This is being cross published at The Diva Review.]The Lady Miz Diva:  Welcome to the... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: An Interview With THE UNJUST Director Ryoo Seung-wan
[A week after wrapping up their 10th anniversary madness, we still have a few NYAFF pieces for you, including another interview from Diva Velez, this time with Korean action man Ryoo Seung-wan and his latest, the more mature, pressure-cooker The... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: An Interview With Tsui Hark

[This interview with the Hong Kong maestro goes up under the NYAFF banner, as that is where Diva Velez sat down with Hark earlier this month. And for those wondering why there is no Detective Dee talk, the PR folks... More »
  

NYAFF Audience Award Winners Announced!
Our regular readers would probably know that I live in a sunny city far, far away from New York, but it doesn't stop me being jealous of those of you who live in New York and get to go... More »
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An Interview With YAKUZA WEAPON Star And Co-director, Tak Sakaguchi
[And as promised, Diva Velez's interview with YAKUZA WEAPON star/co-writer/co-director, Tak Sakaguchi, which is being cross-published at The Diva Review.]  The Lady Miz Diva:  Welcome back to the New York Asian Film Festival and Japan Cuts. You're returning with the... More »
  

An Interview with YAKUZA WEAPON Co-Director, Yudai Yamaguchi
[Yakuza Weapon, the latest from Versus writer and Battlefield Baseball director Yudai Yamaguchi and Sushi Typhoon madman Tak Sakaguchi screened two weekends back as a part of Japan Cuts and NYAFF and just last night at Fantasia. We now present... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: Troubleshooter Review
Laced with slapstick and American action film influences, Troubleshooter owes as much to Tony Scott as it does producer Ryoo Seung-Wan. A frenetic-brained thriller with a deeply funny underbelly aiming to have fun with the genre, without skimping on serious-minded... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: An Interview With Yoshimasa Ishibashi, Director Of MILOCRORZE: A LOVE STORY
[A highlight of the 10th anniversary NYAFF, Yoshimasa Ishibashi's Milocrorze: A Love Story also plays as the centerpiece film at Japan Cuts, this Sunday, July 10th. Once again, we thank the Lady Miz Diva for sharing this interview with us,... More »
  

NYAFF/JAPAN CUTS 2011: HEAVEN'S STORY Review
When one hears the word 'epic' one usually thinks of 'battles' and 'dragons', 'conspiracy and intrigue', 'larger-than-life filmmaking.' When one hears the words 'revenge story' images of Charles Bronson mowing down street punks or Choi Min-sik dishing out justice with... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: HAUNTERS Review (A Very Different Take)
The screenwriter behind Kim Ji-woon's The Good, The Bad and The Weird makes his directorial debut with Korean box office hit, Haunters. Haunters is a quasi-superhero flick depicting the adversarial relationship between a powerful "psychic" and the only man impervious... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: THE MAN FROM NOWHERE Review
[Our thanks to Mark Popham for the following review.]Man, I have been really pulling the long NYAFF straws when it comes to gorgeously shot Korean action films. Last year I had Secret Reunion, a North/South spy versus spycatcher buddy... More »
  

NYAFF/JAPAN CUTS 2011: OSAMU TEZUKA'S BUDDHA: THE GREAT DEPARTURE Review
The first part in a projected trilogy based on Osamu Tezuka's 8 volume manga, Toei Animation's Buddha: The Great Departure chronicles the early life of Prince Siddhartha in bombastic fashion, constructing an epic on a scale intended to rival old-school... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: BTS: BETTER THAN SEX Review
[Once again, a round of applause to Mark Popham.] Ever since getting a screener of BTS: Better Than Sex in the mail, I kept bragging to people about the Taiwanese teen sex comedy I had to watch. I had to... More »
  

NYAFF/Japan Cuts 2011: RINGING IN THEIR EARS Review
The film starts out with Noko, a lead singer of Japanese metafunk band Shinsei Kamattechan, on stage, singing while holding a laptop in front of him. With fans' comments flying across the live streaming images of the concert in the... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: An Interview With Takayuki Yamada, Star of 13 ASSASSINS & MILOCRORZE
[Crossed published at The Diva Review, a very special thanks to the always fabulous, Lady Miz Diva for the following interview with this year's Star Asia Rising Star Award recipient, Takayuki Yamada: star of what is thus far my favorite... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: OCEAN HEAVEN Review

I won't lie: everything about the drama Ocean Heaven reeks of the kind of treacly drama and straining for "seriousness" that every action star seems to go through at least once in their career. In this case, it's Jet Li,... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: BEDEVILLED Review
This review contains spoilers.You know the saying, "A nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there?" Well, Moo-do Island isn't even a nice place to visit. With a population of roughly nine- including a pair of abusive... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: FOXY FESTIVAL Review

Hae-Young Lee's Foxy Festival is a romantic comedy about letting your freak flag fly set to a boom chikka chikka disco porn rhythm. For the most part, it's very funny, and occasionally sweet. But the overall experience suffers because one... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: THE RECIPE Review
The Recipe's Korean title, 'doenjang' refers to 'fermented soybean paste' which is the base of almost all Korean cooking- it is in soups, stews, marinades, condiments, side dishes... the list is endless. With such an ever-present, everyday ingredient as the... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: THE UNJUST Review
As a writer for a site that prides itself on top notch coverage of international cinema - especially from Asia - it pains me to say I'm not that hip to the current wave of Korean films. If I had... More »
  
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