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Devils on the Doorstep

Kim Jeewoon

Reviews: The Age of Shadows [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/the-age-of-shadows-kim-jeewoon-2016/] (2016) — September 27, 2016 Capsule Reviews [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/kim-jeewoon-capsule-reviews/]: A Bittersweet Life (2005)— March 15, 2017 The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)— December 30, 2010 List: Kim Jeewoon Movies [https://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/list/kim-jeewoon-movies/]

Bad Genius (Nattawut Poonpiriya, 2017)

Nattawut Poonpiriya

Bad Genius (Nattawut Poonpiriya, 2017)

Fresh off of wide acclaim both at film festivals across North America (the New York Asian Film Festival, Fantastic Fest in Austin ,and the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, as well as here at VIFF) and at home, where it was just edged out as Thailand’s submission to the

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Capsule Reviews

Kurosawa Kiyoshi

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Capsule Reviews

Cure (1997) — May 10, 2016 “Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.” — Tom Cruise Pulse (2001) — May 10, 2016 Remember when the internet was so new and mysterious we thought it might plausibly contain demons? Now we know it’s just full of assholes. Double feature this with The Midnight After. Tokyo Sonata

Kurosawa Kiyoshi

Devils on the Doorstep

Kurosawa Kiyoshi

Reviews: Daguerrotype (2016) — November 3, 2017 Before We Vanish (2017) — March 8, 2018 Cloud (2024) – September 1, 2024 Capsule Reviews: Cure (1997) — May 10, 2016 Pulse (2001)— May 10, 2016 Tokyo Sonata (2008) — May 12, 2016 Creepy (2016) — June 11, 2016 To the Ends of the Earth (2019) — December 12,

Yamashita Nobuhiro Capsule Reviews

Devils on the Doorstep

Yamashita Nobuhiro Capsule Reviews

Linda Linda Linda (2005) — May 13, 2015 Last night, I dreamt that Bae Doona was a professional basketball player and was generating serious All-Star consideration as the point guard for the New York Knicks. It took me awhile, on waking, to realize that that was in fact a dream and

Bong Joonho Capsule Reviews

Devils on the Doorstep

Bong Joonho Capsule Reviews

Memories of Murder (2003) — September 13, 2019 It always seems like Bong’s movies, while they’re good and I like them, are never really quite as good as they probably should be. Like how Mother is just a worse version of Poetry, or Shin Godzilla is a much better

Devils on the Doorstep Capsule Reviews

Devils on the Doorstep

Devils on the Doorstep Capsule Reviews

Singapore Anthony Chen: Wet Season (2019) — September 28, 2019 Literally everything but the plot is great. All the details, performance, sound design, subtext about language and changing culture: great. Plot though — totally generic. The Breaking Ice (2023) – September 13, 2023 Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen’s most impressive career achievement to-date

Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab Capsule Reviews

Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab

Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab Capsule Reviews

Leviathan (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 2012) — December 5, 2013 I’m on board. Sound, fish POV, net POV, the colors, watching TV, humanity as unconquerable monster dominating other species, more sound, the terror of seagull attack, the possibilities of digital cinema, oh wow the colors. The Iron Ministry (JP

JP Sniadecki and the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab

Devils on the Doorstep

JP Sniadecki and the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab

Reviews [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/tag/harvard-sensory-ethnography-lab/]: People’s Park [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/peoples-park-jp-sniadecki-libbie-cohn-2012/] (JP Sniadecki & Libbie Cohn, 2012) — December 13, 2012 Yumen [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/yumen-jp-sniadecki-xu-ruotao-huang-xiang-2013/] (JP Sniadecki, Xu Ruotao & Huang Xiang, 2013) — October 23, 2013 Capsule Reviews [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/harvard-sensory-ethnography-lab-capsule-reviews/] : Leviathan

Yuen Woo-ping Capsule Reviews

Yuen Woo-ping Capsule Reviews

Drunken Master (1978) — June 13, 2013 Much better subtitled than dubbed (obviously). Even still, the subs translate Jackie Chan’s character’s name as “Freddy Wong,” which kind of obscures one of the most interesting things about the film: that it’s a total subversion of the Wong Fei-hung legend.

Yuen Woo-ping

Reviews: Miracle Fighters (1982) – November 8, 2024 Shaolin Drunkard (1983) – November 8, 2024 The Tiger Cage Trilogy (1988-1991) – August 25, 2022 In the Line of Duty IV (1989) – March 24, 2023 The Tai Chi Master (1993) – June 21, 2022 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016) — February 27, 2016

Corey Yuen Capsule Reviews

Corey Yuen Capsule Reviews

Ninja in the Dragon’s Den (1982) — December 30, 2013 Conan Lee fights a guy on stilts. Conan publicly humiliates a Taoist magician. Then a ninja shows up, trying to kill Conan’s old friend. Conan fights the ninja (Sanada Hiroyuki, the Japanese guy from Royal Warriors) in a room

Corey Yuen

Reviews: Yes, Madam! (1985) — July 2, 2015 Righting Wrongs (1986) – August 1, 2022 She Shoots Straight (1990) — December 22, 2013 Saviour of the Soul I & II (Corey Yuen, David Lai, & Jeffrey Lau, 1991 & 1992) – April 12, 2023) The Legend of Fong Sai-yuk (1993) – January 23, 2022 The

Chor Yuen Capsule Reviews

Chor Yuen Capsule Reviews

The House of 72 Tenants (1973) — July 21, 2013 A comic version of the “poor people living in cramped quarters” genre that pops around around the world in movies like Humanity and Paper Balloons by Sadao Yamanaka, Street Scene by King Vidor, many of the 1930s films of Naruse and

Chor Yuen

Reviews: Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (1972) — July 7, 2013 Killer Clans (1976) — December 26, 2012 The Web of Death (1976) – February 22, 2022 The Sentimental Swordsman (1977) — July 23, 2013 Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre Parts I & II (1978) — July 25, 2013 Swordsman and Enchantress (1978) – January

Ying Liang Capsule Reviews

Ying Liang Capsule Reviews

Good Cats (2008) — October 8, 2008 Ultra-low budget Chinese film (video) about a chauffeur for a petty gangster/real-estate developer. His boss’s deal with a local village is going badly, his mentor is really depressed due to debt, his wife hates him for not being more successful, and their

Ying Liang

Review: When Night Falls [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/when-night-falls-ying-liang-2012/] (2012) —September 30, 2012 Capsule Reviews [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/ying-liang-capsule-reviews/]: Good Cats (2008) — October 8, 2008 A Family Tour (2018) — October 1, 2018

Herman Yau Capsule Reviews

Herman Yau Capsule Reviews

Don’t Fool Me (1991) — June 14, 2019 Herman Yau’s second directorial credit is a Cinema City-esque light comedy made significantly better than it should be by Andy Lau and Tony Leung at their most adorable. Teresa Mo and Fenny Yuen aren’t bad either, and Yau keeps things

Herman Yau

Reviews: The Legend is Born: Ip Man (2010) — April 27, 2014 Ip Man: The Final Fight (2013) — April 29, 2014 Shock Wave (2017) — September 22, 2017 The White Storm 2: Drug Lords (2019) — July 13, 2019 Shock Wave 2 (2020) — February 23, 2021 The White Storm 3: Heaven or Hell

Jeffrey Lau Capsule Reviews

Jeffrey Lau Capsule Reviews

The Haunted Cop Shop (1987) — July 25, 2020 Jeffrey Lau-directed and Wong Kar-wai-written mash-up/parody of the Chinese vampire and girls with guns genres. The vampires are more Western though (with a backstory about the Japanese occupation to satisfy the critics) and the GWG stuff is mostly just Jacky Cheung

Heiward Mak Capsule Reviews

Heiward Mak Capsule Reviews

High Noon (2008) - October 27, 2014 Made when she was only 23 years old, director Heiward Mak’s first feature feels more like a “first feature” than anything I’ve seen in quite awhile. She throws every technique she can think of up on the screen: changes in color

Heiward Mak

Reviews: Uncertain Relationships Society [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/uncertain-relationships-society-heiward-mak-2014/] (2014) — October 3, 2014 Fagara [https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/contemporary-chinese-cinema-sammi-cheng-stars-in-heiward-mak-s-fagara] (2019) — September 10, 2019 Capsule Reviews [https://www.thechinesecinema.com/heiward-mak-capsule-reviews/]: High Noon- October 27, 2014 Diva — November 15, 2014 List: Heiward Mak Movies [https://letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/lis

Wai Ka-fai Capsule Reviews

Wai Ka-fai Capsule Reviews

Too Many Ways to be №1 (1997) — February 24, 2013 Wai Ka-fai absolutely off the rails. Gangster life is chaos and crazy shit is inevitable, so you might as well act like a badass. Maybe you’ll get lucky and end up the horribly crippled boss of your own Triad.

Grace Chang Capsule Reviews

Winners & Sinners

Grace Chang Capsule Reviews

Mambo Girl (Evan Yang, 1957) – March 20, 2017 On first glance, a frothy frivolity, a 50s teen rom-com musical with Grace Chang the Debbie Reynolds or Annette Funicello at its center, the bubbly singing, dancing, wholesome good girl everyone loves. But the plot takes a turn: it turns out Grace

Jeffrey Lau

Reviews: Saviour of the Soul (Corey Yuen, David Lai, & Jeffrey Lau, 1991) – April 12, 2023) Treasure Hunt (1994) – April 18, 2023 A Chinese Odyssey (1995) — August 12, 2019 East Meets West (2011) — December 13, 2012 Capsule Reviews: The Haunted Cop Shop (1987) — July 25, 2020 All for the Winner