SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
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The tea ceremony is one of the classical Japanese arts of refinement, combining a complex series of movements and gestures, with a subtle understanding of the seasons, the weather, poetry… Read More
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In 2011, Taiwanese author Giddens Ko Ching-teng turned his hand to filmmaking – scripting and directing an adaptation of his semi-autobiographical novel You Are the Apple of My Eye. A… Read More
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More Than Blue, the Taiwanese remake of the 2009 South Korean tear-jerker, is sending audiences reaching for the Kleenex once again. It stars Jasper Liu Yi-hao as a young man… Read More
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“What if [second world war escape epic] The Battleship Island was more like La La Land?” appears to have been the pitch behind Kang Hyeong-chul’s tap-dance-infused prisoner-of-war drama. However, Swing… Read More
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Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh has come to embody for many the quintessential tortured artist. Young, broke and unrecognised in his time, Van Gogh battled mental illness and poverty throughout… Read More
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Arguably the most celebrated filmmaker working in South Korea, Lee Chang-dong came to the art form relatively late. The acclaimed playwright, theatre director and novelist penned his first screenplay in… Read More
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A young man crippled by debt learns the obvious lesson that money can’t buy happiness in Keishi Ohtomo’s laborious cautionary tale. Adapted by Genki Kawamura from his own novel, Million… Read More
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After 40 years and close to 100 acting credits, Nicolas Cage is more prolific than ever. The Oscar winner, who turns 55 next month, was in Macau last weekend serving… Read More
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Presented as a fantastical mystery with stand-out visual effects, Homestay is at its heart more a conventional drama about the struggles of adolescence. The supernatural presence in Thai filmmaker Parkpoom… Read More
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“Life will always be unpredictable and surprising” is the flimsy observation at the centre of writer-director Dan Fogelman’s self-important opus. Blissfully unaware of its own triteness, Life Itself examines the… Read More
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Daisuke Miura is no stranger to Japan’s prolific soft core pornographic film industry. In 2014, the writer-director adapted his own play Love’s Whirlpool into a critically acclaimed film about lonely… Read More
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Now in its third year, the International Film Festival and Awards Macao runs from December 8 to 14 and is an exciting addition to the film calendar. It offers local… Read More
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Inspired by Ten Years , the controversial Hong Kong anthology speculating on the city’s future a decade hence, the Ten Years international Project has produced a trio of spin-offs. Ten… Read More
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For his first Chinese-language film, Japanese director Shunji Iwai collaborates with producer Peter Chan Ho-sun to revisit themes from his 1995 hit Love Letter with a film that champions the… Read More
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While it is a faithful remake of the 2009 South Korean hit of the same name, More Than Blue from Taiwanese director Gavin Lin Hsiao-chien is also yet another frustrating… Read More
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The swashbuckling exploits of Robin Hood and his Merry Men have percolated through British folklore since the mid-14th century, from ballads and poems to numerous film and TV adaptations. In… Read More
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Many people have experienced that pang of inexplicable guilt upon recognising something in a current partner that reminds one of a former flame. Often it underscores nothing more than our… Read More
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Nothing triggers a reunion faster than a debilitating illness, and once crowded around a fading loved one’s death bed, what better to do than indulge in nostalgic flashbacks to simpler… Read More
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