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Win Tickets to See Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky at NYAFF
We and our friends over at VCinema are not only going to bring you coverage of the New York Asian Film Festival, we’re also going to send a couple of you to see the films themselves. In conjunction...
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NYAFF ’11: Buddha Mountain
Going into this film, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Three carefree young slackers who aren’t sure where their lives are going move into an older lady’s apartment. She’s strict, doesn’t want ‘boy/girl’...
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NYAFF ’11: Troubleshooter
Troubleshooter(Kwon Hyeok-Jae, 2010) pulls you in right from the beginning and doesn’t let you go, and that sort of becomes a problem as the plot lingers towards the lengthy climax of the film. Sol...
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Bonus Episode 001: Interview with Grady Hendrix
Rufus sits down, or skypes down, with Grady Hendrix the pink-suited man who along with a crack team of insane film ninjas runs Subway Cinema and brings the New York Asian Film Festival to the Big...
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Japan Cuts/NYAFF ’11: Milocrorze: A Love Story
Co-presented by Japan Society’s Japan Cuts is one of the festival’s most anticipated films, at least in my opinion. Director Yoshimasa Ishibashi (of The Fuccons TV series fame) brings us a fever dream...
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Japan Cuts/NYAFF ’11: Ninja Kids!!!
Takashi Miike has had a busy year. Scratch that. Miike is always busy. By far one of the most prolific filmmakers of our time Miike directed both13 Assassins (the director’s cut of which is playing at...
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Episode 006: NYAFF
Rufus and James tell you what to watch (which is pretty much everything) at the New York Asian Film Festival as well as discussing upcoming films The Guard and Attack the Block. The great Irish end of...
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NYAFF ’11: Karate-Robo Zaborgar
Sometimes a film comes along, shoves insanity right into your eyeballs and you accept it right from the start. This is one of those films and it continues the line of craziness that Noboru Iguchi has...
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NYAFF ’11: The Unjust
Ryu Seung-wan is my favorite Korean filmmaker. Since his feature film debut with Die Bad in 2000, which was a collection of four short films shot on 16mm, he has consistently made fun and engaging...
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NYAFF ’11: The Blade
Sometimes a film is put on a pedestal by its fans since the day it comes out and for some reason you don’t get a chance to see it. Then 16 years pass on by and you get a moment to sit down in a...
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