Day two! Five screenings! And I can’t talk about any of them! Heh … such is life in the market – the trade off for seeing things early is that sales agents and producers want to maintain control over when the press comes out. I think I can safely say, however, that Fumihiko Sori’s Ichi is much more a serious chanbara film – and a very well made one, at that – than expected and it was great fun to see the Ping Pong director reunited with two of the stars of that film with both Shido Nakamura and Yosuke Kubozuka playing key roles. Danish WWII drama Flame and Citron was also a very well made piece of work but beyond that I cannot say …

What can I say? The trailer for Tsui Hark’s She Aint Mean - a collaboration with My Sassy Girl’s Kwak Jae-Yong – looks surprisingly light and airy and fun. It’s a change of pace for Hark and it suits him, the film playing like a sort of smart but not too smart for it’s own good post-feminism sex comedy. Suddenly my interest level for this one is way up.

Also on the trailer front, Showbox have a new promo for Kim Ki-Duk’s Dream - it appears the title has been formally shortened from the earlier Sad Dream - and while this was clearly cut from raw footage it gives more than enough to show that whoever dreamt up the idea of putting Japanese star Joe Odagiri into a Kim Ki-Duk film is very clever indeed. Odagiri fits perfectly with the Kim aesthetic. And for those curious about such things apparently the film will be released with all of its stars speaking their native languages.

The big winner of the day also belongs to Showbox in the form of a new trailer Ryoo Seung-Wan’s Dachimawa Lee. This thing looks like just buckets of fun - incredibly inventive and playful on the visual level, loaded with snappy dialogue and chock full of clever action sequences. Sure, sure, the buzzed Korean period action pic is still The Good, The Bad and The Weird but this one might very well be just as good if not better. Korea’s back!