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Ritual – Review
A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young girl who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera. Click for the full review...
Castaway on the Moon – Review
After failing to kill himself by jumping off a bridge, the man is washed up on a deserted island in the middle of the river, but within view of the city's high-rises. He attempts to escape, but soon accepts his fate and the challenges in living on the island. A reclusive young woman, spies him on the island and comes to think of him as her own alien. Click for the full review...
Arirang – Review
In 2008 Ki-duk Kim (director of 3-Iron and Spring Summer Autumn Winter… and Spring) finished a movie entitled "Dream". During production one of his actresses almost died whilst filming a hanging scene, ever since Kim was traumatized and on top of that he now had writer's block. Arirang is a documentary on director Kim Ki-Duk looking back at his film career. Click for the full review...
Kichiku: Banquet of the Beasts – Review
If you are of a nervous disposition, or under the legal age limit to view the equivalent of NC-17 rated movies, do not proceed any further in this review. You will find images of an extremely graphic and violent nature on this page. Made on the world's lowest budget by a first-time director, Banquet of the Beasts represents two startling success stories right off the bat. Deck dares you to click for the full review...
Princess Toyotomi – Review
National Audit Bureau members travel from their homebase of Tokyo to the city of Osaka. Their mission is to discover any financial irregularities & to ensure the correct use of federal money in the Osaka city government. Their initial audits go smoothly, but things turn more interesting once they enter the Karahori shopping district. Click for the full review...
A Reason to Live – Review
Documentary filmmaker Da-hae loses her fiance when he was knocked down by a motorbike by a hit and run teenage boy on her birthday. Based on her belief as a Catholic, she forgives him and signs a petition to revoke the juvenile's death penalty. One year later, Da-hae makes a documentary on the inhumanity of capital punishment. Click for the full review...
Unmistaken Child – Review
In Nepal, a venerable monk, Geshe Lama Konchog, dies and one of his disciples, a youthful monk named Tenzin Zopa, searches for his master's reincarnation. The film follows his search to the Tsum Valley where he finds a young boy of the right age who uncannily responds to Konchog's possessions. Is this the reincarnation of the master? Click for the full review...
The Great Magician – Review
Marking actor Tony Leung Chiu Wai’s return to the screen, in the years after the Revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty in China and established the republic, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords. These warlords are busy fighting each other while a lieutenant is using magic to scare convicts into joining a warlord's army. Click for the full review...
The Journals of Musan – Review
Jeon Seungchul's citizen registration number brands him as a North Korean defector. It is difficult to find a good job and it's hard to get along with people at church. He is not an ex-convict or a migrant worker, but he is subjected to many discriminations. Like the stray dog he looks after, Jeon Seungchul is a misfit in South Korea's capitalist society. Click for the full review...
The Stranger Within a Woman – Review
Although Naruse demonstrated mastery of both color and cinemascope in his 60s films, he reverted to black-and-white Academy format for his antepenultimate film. Perhaps this use of a conservative format was intended to counterbalance the fact that this film involves the most shocking plot of any Naruse film to date. Click for the full review...
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