Pictured, from left to right: Grace Han, Lou Yi-An, Wan-Ling Yu
Taiwan’s upcoming Oscar entry for Best International Feature Film, Lou Yi-an’s “Goddamned Asura,” has had an indomitable track record in its home country. After its premiere at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Festival, “Goddamned Asura” generated buzz with Wang Yu-xuan’s Best Supporting Actress win. Later, at the Taipei Film Awards, the film reaped even more laurels – including Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Wang Yu-xuan), and Best Soundtrack. Now, at the most recent edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, director Lou Yi-an himself made a special appearance on the Canadian red carpet.
In between screenings, happy hours, and other in-person festivities, Lou Yi-an – the calm presence that he is – tells us that he has been savoring the festival’s atmosphere. His gentle, but confident voice is a marked contrast from his three-part psychological...
Taiwan’s upcoming Oscar entry for Best International Feature Film, Lou Yi-an’s “Goddamned Asura,” has had an indomitable track record in its home country. After its premiere at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Festival, “Goddamned Asura” generated buzz with Wang Yu-xuan’s Best Supporting Actress win. Later, at the Taipei Film Awards, the film reaped even more laurels – including Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Wang Yu-xuan), and Best Soundtrack. Now, at the most recent edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, director Lou Yi-an himself made a special appearance on the Canadian red carpet.
In between screenings, happy hours, and other in-person festivities, Lou Yi-an – the calm presence that he is – tells us that he has been savoring the festival’s atmosphere. His gentle, but confident voice is a marked contrast from his three-part psychological...
- 10/12/2022
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
Southeast Asia’s largest festival dedicated to independent animation, Cartoons Underground, was relatively muted this year. With most festivities shifted online, the competition was no less fierce. The festival still maintained its competitive edge with 17 films chosen from 1,321 entries and a new section for Asian animation. This year’s judges also reflected their exciting entries, with two filmmakers – Sarah Cheok from Lasalle College of the Arts and Tan Si En from Momo Film Co. and Berlinale Talents/Rotterdam Lab alum – and Indie-AniFest‘s very own festival director, Choi Yu-jin.
It seems that Singaporean films this year appealed the most out of this year’s slate, as the only award winners are mostly of Singaporean origin — save for Du Yen-Ting’s “A Mysterious Hat” (Taiwan). More pertinently though, three out of five awards have been bestowed to student filmmakers – a definite tip of the hat to Singapore’s next generation of animators.
It seems that Singaporean films this year appealed the most out of this year’s slate, as the only award winners are mostly of Singaporean origin — save for Du Yen-Ting’s “A Mysterious Hat” (Taiwan). More pertinently though, three out of five awards have been bestowed to student filmmakers – a definite tip of the hat to Singapore’s next generation of animators.
- 12/19/2020
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
Hong Sang-soo has directed over twenty films. His debut feature “The Day a Pig Fell into the Well” (1996) won the Tiger Award in Rotterdam while several of his next films including “Woman Is the Future of Man” (2004), “Tale of Cinema” (2005) and “The Day After” (2017) were selected at the Cannes film festival, while “Hahaha” won the Prix Un Certain Regard at 2010. At Locarno, “Our Sunhi” (2013) won the Pardo d’oro for Best Director while “Right Now, Wrong Then” (2015) earned Hong Sang-soo the Pardo d’oro – Concorso internazionale. His 2020 film “The Woman Who Ran” won him the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival. In our Best Asian Films of 2020 list, “The Woman Who Ran” was voted as the third best.
His distinct style of people drinking and discussing fervently, men appearing as lowlifes, subtle but timely humor, along with the sudden, occasionally double zoom-ins and the...
His distinct style of people drinking and discussing fervently, men appearing as lowlifes, subtle but timely humor, along with the sudden, occasionally double zoom-ins and the...
- 12/19/2020
- by AMP Training
- AsianMoviePulse
Translation by Grace Han
Though “Beasts Clawing at Straws” is his debut feature, Kim Yong-hoon is no stranger to the film industry. After working for about a decade with Cj E&m, where he actively progressed investment in hit projects like “The Berlin File”, “Miss Granny” and “C’est Si Bon”. Filmmaking, however, had always been the end-goal for the salaryman and, after producing his first short film “Do You Wish to Delete?” and several failed attempts at getting a feature-length script off the ground, the 38-year-old was finally able to take the leap to directing with “Beasts Clawing at Straws”.
On the occasion of “Beasts Clawing at Straws” screening at New York Asian Film Festival, we spoke to him about the film, the source novel, the crime thriller genre, the casting of Jeon Do-yeon and Jung Woo-sung and more.
How did you come across the original book by Keisuke Sone...
Though “Beasts Clawing at Straws” is his debut feature, Kim Yong-hoon is no stranger to the film industry. After working for about a decade with Cj E&m, where he actively progressed investment in hit projects like “The Berlin File”, “Miss Granny” and “C’est Si Bon”. Filmmaking, however, had always been the end-goal for the salaryman and, after producing his first short film “Do You Wish to Delete?” and several failed attempts at getting a feature-length script off the ground, the 38-year-old was finally able to take the leap to directing with “Beasts Clawing at Straws”.
On the occasion of “Beasts Clawing at Straws” screening at New York Asian Film Festival, we spoke to him about the film, the source novel, the crime thriller genre, the casting of Jeon Do-yeon and Jung Woo-sung and more.
How did you come across the original book by Keisuke Sone...
- 10/3/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Cat person or not, there’s something we can all agree on: Universal Pictures’ live-action (or is it more CGI?) adaptation Cats was definitely… not what we wanted to see. We at Amp believe, however, that there are plenty of great cat-related movies out there — Asian ones, specifically — that can represent our feline friends in a less grotesque light. We’ve compiled below a list of comedies and horror, of the trippy and documentary, of the adorable and the heartwarming, all in honor of the original homebody champs. Get cozy, because these films will definitely warrant some snuggle-time with our favorite furballs.
1. Take Care of My Cat
Jeong’s themes are universal and not just the anxieties of young women in South Korea: they can be applied to many countries in the world and to many people. “Take Care of my Cat”, therefore, is relatively gimmick-free for a coming-of-age drama...
1. Take Care of My Cat
Jeong’s themes are universal and not just the anxieties of young women in South Korea: they can be applied to many countries in the world and to many people. “Take Care of my Cat”, therefore, is relatively gimmick-free for a coming-of-age drama...
- 5/2/2020
- by AMP Group
- AsianMoviePulse
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