Tag: movie review

Last year, Memoir of a Murderer dominated the South Korean box office and became the first Korean thriller of 2017 to surpass two million ticket sales. As an obvious commercial hit, I'd tagged this on my "to-watch" list, intent on discovering just what was so good about the film that kept ...

Peter Huo, Guli Nazha, and Huang Zitao star in the 2017 Chinese gangster film The Game Changer. It's rife with all the usual elements of a piece of cinematography focused on the urban underworld: double-crossing allies, men in fedoras, and lots of gunfights. To add to the urban atmosphere is ...

Let's all cast our minds back to an iconic Korean film that had its 12 year anniversary just a few months ago. This movie took beauty and death in the landscape of a sageuk and transformed them into a story that took South Korea by storm. It was a phenomenon ...

Kimi no Na wa, alternately known by its English title Your Name, has taken the Asian entertainment sphere by storm recently. Besides being the fourth highest grossing film in Japan ever (second for a domestic Japanese film), it's had similar success in China, Thailand, and South Korea. The gist of the ...