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Emotional Implosion: The spreading agenda of mainland pop culture | "Love Song 1980"
Love Song 1980 Directed by Mei Feng. China. 2020. 2h7m. # TIFF Before becoming a director, Mei Feng was better known as an art film...
Nov 22, 2020


Swimming Towards Home | "Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue"
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue Directed by Jia Zhang-ke. China. 2020. 111 mins. # FILMeX In the past few years, director Jia...
Nov 22, 2020


Falling Down | "Love after Love"
Love after Love Directed by Ann Hui. China. 2020. 140 mins. # TIFF Love after Love is a feast for the eyes rendering the extravagance...
Nov 20, 2020


The Image It Bears | “Ainu Mosir”
Ainu Mosir Japan/USA/China, 2020, 84 minutes. Directed and written by Takeshi Fukunaga. The last few years have witnessed the springing...
Oct 11, 2020


Book review | "Romance in Post-Socialist Chinese Television"
Chinese media scholar Huike Wen’s new book, Romance in Post-Socialist Chinese Television , was published in July 2020 by Palgrave...
Oct 6, 2020


Why is not the right question | Book "Spirited Away"
In this compact study, author Andrew Osmond conducts a detailed textual analysis of one of Miyazaki’s most remarkable animation works,...
Jul 19, 2020


The Japan Cinema ANT | "The Japanese Cinema Book"
Part 1 of the Japanese Cinema Book focuses on the theories and approaches of Japanese film studies in both Japan and Anglo-Saxon...
Jul 17, 2020


Far away, too close | Nippon Connection 2020
Naomi Mizoguchi focused her camera on another voice that has been neglected and silenced for hundreds of years, which is the voice of...
Jun 9, 2020


The World’s Wars | "War of the Worlds"
In March when the Coronavirus started to swarm into Italy, a number of eminent philosophers published their immediate reflections on the...
Jun 4, 2020


Never been strangers | "La Belle Noiseuse"
We must detect the spirit, the informing soul in the appearances of things and beings. Effects! What are effects but the accidents of...
May 29, 2020


The Post-Genre Kingdom | "Kingdom"
In 2019, Netflix released its first original Korean series, Kingdom ; a second season, which was also favorably received, came out in...
Apr 16, 2020


Generous Complicity | “Complicity”
While China has become the world’s second largest economy and the No. 1 source of overseas visitors for Japan, the film Complicity runs...
Jan 26, 2020
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