EDITOR'S CHOICE: Lee Sang-il returns to the work of Villain author Shuichi Yoshida for a bleak look at the impossibility of connection and the failings of both trust and suspicion.
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NYAFF 2017: Happiness (Sabu)
EDITOR'S CHOICE: Sabu's latest film is a tender yet cerebral exploration of memory and loss.
Read MoreNYAFF 2017: Interview w/ Jung Yoon-suk and Bamseom Pirates
The filmmaker and his subjects discuss their punk-rock documentary.
Read MoreNYAFF 2017: Interview w/ Kei Ishikawa (Traces of Sin)
Kei Ishikawa discusses directing his first feature film.
Read MoreNYAFF 2017: Interview w/ Naoko Ogigami
We sit down with Naoko Ogigami during the NYAFF premiere of her newest film Close-Knit.
Read MoreFilm Review: Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno (Jung Yoon-suk)
A hardcore band not in it for the money, able to ruffle feathers with a bass, drums, and a Powerpoint presentation.
Read MoreNYAFF 2017: Traces of Sin (Kei Ishikawa)
A cold, distant, and confidently anti-climactic mystery thriller from a first time director.
Read MoreFilm Review: Close-Knit (Naoko Ogigami, 2017)
Naoko Ogigami (thankfully) returns with a film that continues her trademark quiet quirk but is a new chapter for the director because of its social significance.
Read MoreFilm Review: Double Life (Yoshiyuki Kishi, 2016)
A film in which questions of self and existence are explored through the simple act of stalking.
Read MoreFilm Review: Wet Woman in the Wind (Akihiko Shiota, 2016)
From Nikkatsu's reboot of the roman porno genre comes this fun, self-aware battle of the sexes that indulges in the formula as much as it transcends it.
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