“One should swindle with morality…” ANGRY SQUAD: THE CIVIL SERVANT AND THE SEVEN SWINDLERS ★★★★ | Screening around the UK as part of the #JFTFP26 lineup #jpflondon

LI HAN-HSIANG delivers a lyrical adaptation of a classic PU SONGLING: THE ENCHANTING SHADOW ★★★★★ | Available on Blu-ray as part of Shaw-Shock: Shaw Brothers Horror Collection - Volume Two from @imprintfilms.bsky.social

An awesome premise is let down by lack of zombies. And ninjas. SUPER MASTER VS. THE EVIL DEAD | Streaming now on the the Arrow Video Channel. @arrowvideo.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/reviews/supe...

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A group of students come up against a murderous giant floating head in this obscure 2014 Japanese shocker | This week's #cineXtremes entry! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/deat...

Hard Boiled returns to UK Cinemas from tomorrow! Thanks @arrowvideo.bsky.social! ❤️

A whimsy summer story in a coastal Japanese town: SEASIDE SERENDIPITY | Getting its UK Premiere as part of MINT Chinese Film Festival 2026 #MINT2026 www.easternkicks.com/reviews/seas...

“I wanted it to be true to being that age” First-time feature director Naoya Fujita talks ambiguity and discovery in youth in CONFETTI | Available to stream from March 4th on JFF Theater #jfftheater www.easternkicks.com/features/nao...

Mint Chinese Film Festival returns for 4th edition - Kendal Brewery Arts becomes the new home for programme running from 6 to 9 March #MINT2026 www.easternkicks.com/news/mint-ch...

A masterful action comedy from the legendary Tsui Hark: PEKING OPERA BLUES ★★★★★ | Available on 4K UHD and Blu-ray from @arrowvideo.bsky.social now! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/peki...

Garden Cinema presents the UK’s first-ever comprehensive Jia Zhangke retrospective - From 8 March, this eight-week programme will include all 15 of Jia’s feature films! | @thegardencinema.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/news/garden-...

A documentary filmmaker and his crew visit a haunted hospital in this 2010 Singapore found footager: HAUNTED CHANGI | | This week's #cineXtremes entry! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/haun...

A dreamy look at grief in this debut film from a promising director: WHITE FLOWERS AND FRUITS | Getting its UK Premiere as part of MINT Chinese Film Festival 2026 #mintcff2023 www.easternkicks.com/reviews/whit...

To the Roots of V-Cinema - Exploring the formative direct-to-video era of Japanese Cinema | A special programme screened as part of IFFR 2026 @iffr-festival.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/features/to-...

An incoherent but still somehow fun little kung fu film: SNAKE FIST OF THE BUDDHIST DRAGON | Streaming now on the the Arrow Video Channel. @arrowvideo.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/reviews/snak...

A crucial film exploring a crucial case in postwar Japanese queer history: BLUE BOY TRIAL ★★★★½ | Screening around the UK as part of the #JFTFP26 lineup #jpflondon www.easternkicks.com/reviews/blue...

The legendary Yuen Woo-ping returns with all-star wuxia extravaganza BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS | Currently in US cinemas released by @wellgousa.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/reviews/blad...

A Korean YouTuber investigates a haunted train station, only to find that its sinister urban legends are terrifyingly real ★★★★ | This week's #cineXtremes entry, available on Digital, Blu-ray and DVD from @wellgousa.bsky.social

Sentimental Bloodshed!!! With a red-hot ensemble driven by Wong Kar-Wai, no less: FLAMING BROTHERS | Available now on Blu-ray from #Eurekavideo

"I was thinking not only about the life cycle of a person but of society" We talk to director Anocha Suwichakornpong on her ruminative retrospective coming to Metrograph theaters this month #Metrograph

An excellent release of Ringo Lam’s CITY ON FIRE lets us see the highs and lows of the film, anchored by a powerhouse performance from Chow Yun-fat from @arrowvideo.bsky.social ★★★★ | Out now on limited edition 4K UHD and Blu-ray! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/city...

Politics of Time: The Films of Anocha Suwichakornpong - The varied and contemplative works of Thai director Anocha Suwichakornpong are coming to @metrographnyc.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/news/politic...

A 2009 Japanese take on the usual Outbreak formula sees a deadly virus threatening the country and the staff of an overwhelmed hospital: PANDEMIC | This week's #cineXtremes entry! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/pand...

Flora Lau's LUZ 花明渡 kicks off @focushkfilm.bsky.social's Chinese New Year screenings at @thegardencinema.bsky.social. A while back we spoke to the director about her debut BENDS www.easternkicks.com/features/an-... Screening info: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/luz/

Joko Anwar’s 2024 shocker follows a woman obsessed with the religious fear of eternal torment after death: GRAVE TORTURE ★★★★ | This week's #cineXtremes entry streaming now on @netflix.com! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/grav...

The Garden Cinema celebrates LGBT+ History Month - A curated season of queer classics includes Korean films co-presented by Queer East starts today! | @thegardencinema.bsky.social @queereast.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/news/the-gar...

The evils of toxic relationships are conjured by a classic ghost story in TAKESHI MIIKE’s underseen 2014 horror, now presented for the first time in the UK by #88_films www.easternkicks.com/reviews/over...

Peter Yung’s near lost crime drama makes a welcome return: THE SYSTEM ★★★★½ | Part of the M+ Restored programme from the #mplusmuseum www.easternkicks.com/reviews/the-...

12th FEFF Campus looks for cinema’s next generation - The initiative returns for 2026! #udinefareastfilm #FEFF28 #FEFFCampus www.easternkicks.com/news/12th-fe...

Dante Lam’s 2012 thriller saw the director being given a considerably bigger budget to blow even more things up loudly | This week's #cineXtremes entry!

A rare and surprisingly grounded reflection on sex work by Pink Film legend Banmei Takahashi: A NEW LOVE IN TOKYO | Screening at #Metrograph, released by #kani_releasing www.easternkicks.com/reviews/a-ne...

Boom! Sammo’s married, punched, thrown, and trashed through Canada with Maggie Cheung in @Eurekavideo's great release of PAPER MARRIAGE | Part of the Sammo Hung Triple Threat Blu-ray set

A mother tries to save herself and her son when an apocalyptic flood strikes their apartment building: THE GREAT FLOOD | Streaming now on @netflix.com!

n editor restoring a lost silent Filipino horror film releases a demon in Nikolas Red’s directorial debut: POSTHOUSE | This week's #cineXtremes entry streaming now on @netflix.com! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/post...

What's this? Song Kang-ho and Youn Yuh-jung to appear in season 2 of @netflix.com's BEEF? 😳

Know thyself! The Japan Foundation’s annual Touring Film Programme returns for 2026 - This season’s programme hits 34 cinemas under the theme, “Knowing Me, Knowing You: The True Self in Japanese Cinema” #jpflondon www.easternkicks.com/news/know-th...

The goofier but still charming follow up to the wild spectacle of Peacock King: SAGA OF THE PHOENIX | Available on Blu-Ray now from #88_Films www.easternkicks.com/reviews/saga...

Derek Yee’s 2010 follow-up to Double Tap and One Nite in Mongkok offers more shootouts and hardboiled crime drama: TRIPLE TAP | This week's #cineXtremes entry! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/trip...

Catch a special screening of NO OTHER CHOICE at #BFI IMAX this Saturday before it's release from 23 January with director Park Chan-wook in attendance. Park will also be at an IMAX screening of OLDBOY on Friday! #MUBI Review: www.easternkicks.com/reviews/no-o...

A captivatingly conducted and performed erotic thriller with an unlikely classical bent to its madness: HIDDEN FACE ★★★★ | Available on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital from @wellgousa.bsky.social

The war drama that became China’s Oscars submission: DEAD TO RIGHTS | Recently screened as part of #asianworldff 2025 www.easternkicks.com/reviews/dead...

1980s: The Lost Decade of Japanese Cinema season - The Garden Cinema London presents UK’s first-ever season of films from Japan’s ‘forgotten era’ of filmmaking @thegardencinema.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/news/1980s-t...

A cop accidentally releases a female ghost from a banana plantation, resulting in romance, melodrama and wacky supernatural hijinks: THE CASE OF THE SPIRIT OF BANANA | This week's #cineXtremes entry! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/the-...

We're very sad to hear of the passing of Ahn Sung-ki. 😢 We had teh pleasure of taking part in a group interview some 11 years ago. www.easternkicks.com/features/ahn...

Cheng Pei-Pei and Kao Yuen unravel a deadly mystery in wuxia spectacle from Lo Wei: THE GOLDEN SWORD ★★★★½ | Available as part of @shoutstudios.bsky.social Shaw Brothers Classics Vol. 1! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/the-...

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Recrimination doesn’t have to be bitter to hurt: THE TOWN WITHIN REACH ★★★★ | Part of #Metrograph's Memories of a Vietnamese Cinema season. www.easternkicks.com/reviews/the-...

Hua Shan presents a horror-infused wuxia tale with a touch of sex and gore: BLOODY PARROT ★★★★½ | Available on Blu-ray now as part of @arrowvideo.bsky.social's Shawscope Volume Four! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/bloo...

The end of the Hallyu? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Sect intrigue and heroics in this great wuxia film from LO WEI: DEATH VALLEY ★★★★½ | Available now on Blu-ray as part of #Eurekavideo's Martial Law: Lo Wei’s Wuxia World www.easternkicks.com/reviews/deat...