Opening and closing films revealed for BFI Southbank part of programme… The London Korean Film Festival returns from 2 to 16 November for its 21st edition, and tickets for the programme at BFI ...

The director of Gu Shi talks memory, isolation, and storytelling... After premiering her short film Three at the 77th Cannes ...

Lund Fantastic presents a Japanese genre retrospective in collaboration with TOEI... Lund Fantastic Film Festival returns for ...

Revelry and renunciation of the samurai spirit swirl into a yin yang of intrigue in the latest hit jidaigeki epic... 16th of January 1810, Kobiki-chō district — modern-day Ginza — Edo. Fresh off of a ...

easternKicks began very much as a hobby, a place to throw all my enthusiasm for Asian film outside of my day job as a graphic designer and share it with the world… The site launched in mid-2002. The ...

We speak to Stockport-born, now Vancouver-based, Darren Shahlavi about working with his all time heroes Donnie Yen and Sammo Hung on Ip Man 2, and the joys of being a bad guy… ...

A roundup of East and South East Asian films from the 2026 programme… Singapore’s first wuxia is a stunning but narratively fractured reimagining of the myth of Chang Er, the fairy maiden on the ...

死の棘. Japan 1990. Directed by Kohei Ohguri. Starring Ittoku Kishibe, Keiko Matsuzaka, Takenori Matsumura, Yuri Chikamori, Midori Kiuchi, Akira Yamanouci. 115 mins. In Japanese with English subtitles.

夜がまた来る [lit. “The Night Comes Again.”] Japan 1994. Directed by Takashi Ishii. Starring Yui Natsukawa, Kippei Shiina, Jinpachi Nezu, Minori Terada, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Kimiko Yo. 108 mins. In Japanese ...

金瓶梅2：愛的奴隸. Hong Kong 2009. Directed by Chin Man Kei. Starring Oscar Lam wai-kin, Winnie Leung, Hayakawa Serina, Wakana Hikaru, Kaera Uehara. 92 mins. In Cantonese with English subtitles.

ノロイ, Noroi. Japan 2005. Directed by Koji Shiraishi. Starring Jin Muraki, Tomono Kuga, Satoru Jitsunashi. 115 mins. Japanese with English subtitles.

彼のオートバイ、彼女の島. Japan 1986. Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi. Starring Riki Takeuchi, Kiwako Harada, Noriko Watanabe, Keiichi Ogawa, Toshie Negishi, Takahiro Tamura. 90 mins. In Japanese with English ...