KIM DONG-HO – founder of the Busan International Film Festival – picks up a camcorder to visit theatres and ask what cinema means in his debut film MR. KIM GOES TO THE CINEMA | Screened as part of #FEFF28 #UDINEfareastfilm #FEFFCampus www.easternkicks.com/features/kim...

The 25th edition New York Asian Film Festival announces an opener worth feasting on! NYAFF2026 to open with Yeon Sang-ho's COLONY! Nom non nom... @nyaff.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/news/nyaff-t...

Fan Bingbing extends her artistic legacy through a compelling performance in MOTHER BHUMI. The actress wins Golden Mulberry Award on the 28th Far East Film Festival | Screened at #FEFF28 #UDINEfareastfilm #FEFFCampus and released in Malaysia now! www.easternkicks.com/features/fan...

Herman Yau’s WE’RE NOTHING AT ALL is a furious, unflinching portrait of contemporary Hong Kong. The winner of the HKIFF Audience Choice Award asks how far people can be pushed before everything explodes #FEFF28 #UDINEfareastfilm #hkiffs #trinitycineasia www.easternkicks.com/reviews/were...

Sentimental? Sure. Heartbreaking? In places. But Yoji Yamada’s one-day drive through Japan has pathos, melancholy, and human kindness along its way ★★★★★ | Screened as part of the Japanese Film Festival Ireland #JFF_Ireland and #FEFF28 #UDINEfareastfilm www.easternkicks.com/reviews/toky...

Ho Meng Hua’s 1976 sequel offers up more gruesome Gong Tau rituals and sleazy spells: BLACK MAGIC 2 ★★★★★ | This week's #cineXtremes entry is available on Blu-ray now as part of @arrowvideo.bsky.social's Shawscope Volume Four boxset www.easternkicks.com/reviews/blac...

Jia Zhangke’s A TOUCH OF SIN: A Modern Wuxia Tale. Exploring the film’s construction of jianghu, aesthetics of violence and dialogue with key wuxia themes | Time Capsule: The Films of Jia Zhangke continues at #thegardencinema @thegardencinema.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/features/jia...

Nippon Connection Film Festival return to Frankfurt for its 26th edition, revealing a line-up of 140+ films, including 7 world premieres @nipponconnection.com www.easternkicks.com/news/line-up...

Absurdist comedy with sharp social commentary: A USEFUL GHOST ★★★★½ | Screening as part of Queer East @queereast.org.uk www.easternkicks.com/reviews/a-us...

THE WORLD OF LOVE starring SEO SOO-BIN, JANG HYE-JIN. A haunting coming-of-age drama about trauma and healing. #TheWorldOfLove #YoonGaEun #KoreanCinema Screened at #FEFF28 #FEFFCampus #UDINEfareastfilm www.easternkicks.com/reviews/the-...

A tale of courage, acceptance and affirmation as a photographer with a rare type of cancer comes to terms with his refashioned body after life changing surgery: STOMA | Screening at #TheGardenCinema as the closing film of Re:mind #remindfilmfestival www.easternkicks.com/reviews/stoma/

Norio Tsuruta’s 2012 familiar found footager follows two high school girls wandering their haunted school with camcorders... This week's #cineXtremes entry! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/pov-...

PARK CHUL-SOO invites viewers into an OB-GYN ward, confronting womens bodies and exploring sexual taboos in the 4K restoration of PUSH! PUSH! (1997) – a striking, unsettling blend of satire and social commentary. Screened at #FEFF28 #FEFFCampus #UDINEfareastfilm www.easternkicks.com/reviews/push...

Two films, 25 years apart, confirm Kurosawa’s status of one of Japan finest directors of contemporary society and mores: CLOUD/CHARISMA ★★★★★ | Available now as a two-disc set from #Eurekaentertainment www.easternkicks.com/reviews/clou...

CHEN YU-HSUN’s road trip through White Terror Taiwan is warm, charming and perhaps too comfortable. Does optimism honour memory or mitigate it? #AFoggyTale Screened at #FEFF28 #FEFFCampus #UDINEfareastfilm www.easternkicks.com/reviews/a-fo...

Forget In the Mood for Love, forget style over substance; A eulogy for Saigon, its people and their quiet endurance: KY NAM INN | Screened as part of #FEFF28 #FEFFCampus #UDINEfareastfilm @leonquangle @binhphatlien @_dothihaiyen www.easternkicks.com/reviews/ky-n...

In UK cinemas now! LEE SANG-IL’s Oscar nominee KOKUHO, a historical Kabuki melodrama about obsession, was Japan’s highest-grossing live-action film in 2025 #FEFF28 #FEFFCampus #UDIUNEfareastfilm @vuelumiere.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/reviews/koku...

A handful of dinosaurs do indeed go on the rampage in this 2020 Chinese Jurassic Park knock-off... This week's #cineXtremes entry! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/velo...

ANG GECK GECK PRISCILLA’S deeply personal debut feature AH GIRL immerses the audience in a time capsule of ’90s childhood nostalgia in which all family cracks are now visible. Produced by Aggregate Films #FEFF28 #FEFFCampus #UDINEfareastfilm www.easternkicks.com/reviews/ah-g...

CINEMASIA ON TOUR brings Asian cinema to four Dutch cities, with festival favourites and new discoveries on screen May–June. #CinemAsia_NL www.easternkicks.com/news/cinemas...

WE ARE ALL STRANGERS is a patient, humane look at love and class in modern Singapore, finding warmth amid constraint ★★★★ | Screened as part of #UDINEfareastfilm #FEFF28 #FEFFCampus www.easternkicks.com/reviews/we-a...

Heartfelt story about memory, identity, and second chances: A GOOD CHILD ★★★★ | Screening as part of Queer East @queereast.org.uk www.easternkicks.com/reviews/a-go...

Joyful rebellion with Shh..Diam! QUEER AS PUNK | Screening as part of Queer East - which starts today! @queereast.org.uk www.easternkicks.com/reviews/quee...

King Kong does not appear in this Snakes on a Plane rip-off 2023 Chinese creature feature... This week's #cineXtremes entry! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/king...

The Little Mermaid wears killer sneakers and just wants her husband to have a good day: ChaO ★★★★ | Screened as part of the Japanese Film Festival Ireland #JFF_Ireland www.easternkicks.com/reviews/chao/

Love, jealousy and opera collide in a newly restored cinematic classic: FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE ★★★★ | Available on limited edition 4K UHD + Blu-ray from @imprintfilms.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/reviews/fare...

Easily my choice for one of the best films of 2025! Don't miss a chance to catch Yoon Ga-eun’s incredible THE WORLD OF LOVE at Far East Film Festival today! ★★★★★ #FEFF28 #fareastfilm www.easternkicks.com/reviews/the-...

The Modern Transposition of Wuxia in John Woo’s THE KILLER | Available on limited edition 4K UHD and Blu-ray now from @arrowvideo.bsky.social!

A documentary crew go in search of a legendary wild man in this 2010 Chinese found footager | This week's #cineXtremes entry! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/vide...

Lee Sang-il's decade spanning epic from the world of kabuki: KOKUHO ★★★★ | The highest grossing live-action film in Japan comes to #FEFF28 #Udinefareastfilm and UK/Irish screens from 8 May via @vuelumiere.bsky.social  https://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/kokuho/

King’s College, London launches new film festival showcasing the best in independent Asian and Diasporic Cinema: Re:mind #remindfilmfestival https://www.easternkicks.com/news/remind-film-festival-launches-in-london/

ANTHONY CHEN reflects on the final chapter of his so-called “Growing Up Trilogy” journey WE ARE ALL STRANGERS | The opening film for #FEFF28 this Friday! #Udinefareastfilm https://www.easternkicks.com/features/anthony-chen-interview-2026/

Here’s one you probably weren’t expecting: THE AMSTERDAM KILL | Available now on Blu-ray from #88_Films www.easternkicks.com/reviews/the-...

An amazing piece of Wuxia cinema that lends hope not just for a sequel, but for the future of the genre as a whole! | In UK & IE cinemas now from #Cineasia and coming to to #FEFF28 #Udinefareastfilm with guest YUEN WOO-PING! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/blad...

35 years after it first came to UK audiences, AKIRA is back in more than 400 cinemas and every IMAX! 'A truly seminal piece of science fiction and animation' ★★★★★ | @alltheanime.com  https://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/akira-alt/

After the death of their mother two siblings go to live with their estranged father, only to be confronted with a sinister family legacy | #cineXtremes does Indonesian horror streaming on @netflix.com!

Beyond the Pure Girl: A reappraisal of BRIGITTE LIN's formative career in Taiwan before her Hong Kong breakthrough | PEKING OPERA BLUES - starring LIn - is available now on 4k UHD/Blu-ray from @imprintfilms.bsky.social

Jackie Chan and the CGI panda return for more heartwarming and patriotic hijinks! | Released in select theaters by @wellgousa.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/reviews/pand...

Mipo O’s perfect cast of children run rings around the adults in HOW DARE YOU? ★★★★ Showing now at the Japanese Film Festival Ireland #JFF_Ireland www.easternkicks.com/reviews/how-...

A man finds himself trapped in an endless subway corridor in hit Japanese video game adaptation EXIT 8 | Screening at Japanese Film Festival Ireland #JFF_Ireland and in US cinemas now via @neon-rated.bsky.social

Jason Pai Piao sculpts a crystal beauty who terrorises the martial world in PORTRAIT IN CRYSTAL | Available on Blu-ray now as part of @arrowvideo.bsky.social's Shawscope Volume Four

Martial arts choreographer legend YUEN WOO-PING to receive Golden Mulberry Award for Lifetime Achievement! Blades of the Guardians will also close the Far East Film Festival festival #FEFF28 #UdineFarEastFilm www.easternkicks.com/news/martial...

Queer East is back for its seventh year, returning to London cinema screens from 1 May to 6 June 2026! @queereast www.easternkicks.com/news/queer-e...

“If the original is like a bizarre cocktail, Bugonia felt more like a smoky cocktail” With Save the Green Planet! now available in a 4K restoration by @arrowvideo.bsky.social, we look back at the cult classic with its writer and director JANG JOON-HWAN www.easternkicks.com/features/jan...

Far East Film Festival returns for its 28th edition! Fan Binging and Yakusho Koji to receive the Golden Mulberry Award for Lifetime Achievement #fareastfilm #FEFF28 www.easternkicks.com/news/far-eas...

Japanese Film Festival Ireland returns for 2026. Back for its 17th year with ten locations across Ireland with fifteen films! #JFF_Ireland www.easternkicks.com/news/japanes...

A low budget Chinese knock-off of The Faculty featuring lots of dodgy CGI tentacles and very little else | This week's #cineXtremes entry! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/dead...

CHOU HSU-CHIANG delivers a character focused tale of horror in THE ENCHANTING GHOST ★★★★½ | Released by @88films.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/reviews/the-...

On the anniversary of his death, we look back on a screen legend... www.easternkicks.com/features/les...

A wild, ravishing revisionist wuxia: THE BLADE ★★★★ | Available in restored 4K and Blu-ray now (US) from 13 April (UK), released by @criterion.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/reviews/the-...